Achievements, History and Challenges in Geophysics : 60th Anniversary of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences / / edited by Robert Bialik, Mariusz Majdański, Mateusz Moskalik |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (419 p.) |
Disciplina | 551.082 |
Collana | GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Geophysics
Geotechnical engineering Geophysics/Geodesy Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences |
ISBN | 3-319-07599-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | History and Achievements -- Best practices in Earth Sciences. The national and international experience of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences -- On the roots of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences -- 50 Years of Palaeomagnetic Studies in the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences -- Natural variations of the geomagnetic field ‒ observations and application to study of the Earth's interior and ionosphere -- Half century of the ozone observations at the Central Geophysical Observatory, IGF PAS, Belsk, Poland -- Forty years of water research at the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences -- Changes in catchment hydrology caused by changes in the environment – a contribution of the Water Resources Department, Institute of Geophysics PAS -- Five Polish seismic expeditions to the West Antarctica (1979-2007) -- Department of Polar and Marine Research: the Hornsund Station and Other Activities in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions -- Seismology and Earth Dynamics - a Variety of Scientific Approaches -- Sixty Years of Publishing with the Institute of Geophysics -- Exemplary Current Research and Geophysical Methods. -Discharge Measurements in Lowland Rivers: Field Comparison between an Electromagnetic Open Channel Flow Meter (EOCFM) and an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) -- Random Domino Automaton – Modeling Macroscopic Properties by Means of Microscopic Rules -- Continental Passive Margin West of Svalbard and Barents Sea in Polish Arctic Seismic Studies -- Selected Theoretical Methods in Solid Earth Physics – Contribution from the Institute of Geophysics PAS -- Application of Passive Hydroacoustics in the Studies of Sea-Ice, Icebergs and Glaciers: Issues, Approaches and Future Needs -- Pigeon navigation model based on a vector magnetometer -- Analysis of surface ozone variations based on the long-term measurement in Kraków (1854-1878), (2005-2013) and Belsk (1995-2012) -- Dissolved oxygen in rivers: concepts and measuring techniques -- Gradient-based similarity in the stable atmospheric boundary layer -- Asymmetric Continuum Theory: Fracture Processes in Seismology and Extreme Fluid Dynamics -- Time scales: Towards Extending the Finite Difference Technique for Non-homogeneous Grids. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910298373403321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
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Radiative transfer in coupled environmental systems : an introduction to forward and inverse modeling / / Knut Stamnes, Jakob J. Stamnes |
Autore | Stamnes Knut |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Weinheim, Germany : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (412 p.) |
Disciplina | 551.082 |
Collana | Wiley Series in Atmospheric Physics and Remote Sensing |
Soggetto topico | Geophysics |
ISBN |
3-527-69662-8
3-527-69660-1 3-527-69659-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Related Titles""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction""; ""1.1 Brief History""; ""1.2 What is Meant by a Coupled System?""; ""1.3 Scope""; ""1.4 Limitations of Scope""; ""Chapter 2: Inherent Optical Properties (IOPs)""; ""2.1 General Definitions""; ""2.2 Examples of Scattering Phase Functions""; ""2.3 Scattering Phase Matrix""; ""2.4 IOPs of a Polydispersion of Particles-Integration over the Size Distribution""; ""2.5 Scattering of an Electromagnetic Wave by Particles""
""2.6 Absorption and Scattering by Spherical Particles-Mie-Lorenz Theory""""2.7 Atmosphere IOPs""; ""2.8 Snow and Ice IOPs""; ""2.9 Water IOPs""; ""2.10 Fresnel Reflectance and Transmittance at a Plane Interface Between Two Coupled Media""; ""2.11 Surface Roughness Treatment""; ""2.12 Land Surfaces""; ""Problems""; ""Chapter 3: Basic Radiative Transfer Theory""; ""3.1 Derivation of the Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE)""; ""3.2 Radiative Transfer of Unpolarized Radiation in Coupled Systems""; ""3.3 Radiative Transfer of Polarized Radiation in Coupled Systems"" ""3.4 Methods of Solution of the RTE""""3.5 Calculation of Weighting Functions-Jacobians""; ""Problems""; ""Chapter 4: Forward Radiative Transfer Modeling""; ""4.1 Quadrature Rule-The Double-Gauss Method""; ""4.2 Discrete Ordinate Equations-Compact Matrix Formulation""; ""4.3 Discrete-Ordinate Solutions""; ""Problems""; ""Chapter 5: The Inverse Problem""; ""5.1 Probability and Rules for Consistent Reasoning""; ""5.2 Parameter Estimation""; ""5.3 Model Selection or Hypothesis Testing""; ""5.4 Assigning Probabilities""; ""5.5 Generic Formulation of the Inverse Problem"" ""5.6 Linear Inverse Problems""""5.7 Bayesian Approach to the Inverse Problem""; ""5.8 Ill Posedness or Ill Conditioning""; ""5.9 Nonlinear Inverse Problems""; ""Problems""; ""Chapter 6: Applications""; ""6.1 Principal Component (PC) Analysis""; ""6.2 Simultaneous Retrieval of Total Ozone Column (TOC) Amount and Cloud Effects""; ""6.3 Coupled Atmosphere-Snow-Ice Systems""; ""6.4 Coupled Atmosphere-Water Systems""; ""6.5 Simultaneous Retrieval of Aerosol and Aquatic Parameters""; ""6.6 Polarized RT in a Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean System""; ""6.7 What if MODIS Could Measure Polarization?"" ""Appendix A: Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves""""A.1 Absorption and Scattering by a Particle of Arbitrary Shape""; ""A.2 Absorption and Scattering by a Sphere-Mie Theory""; ""Appendix B: Spectral Sampling Strategies""; ""Transmission in an Isolated Spectral Line""; ""The Random Band Model""; ""B.1 The MODTRAN Band Model""; ""B.2 The k-Distribution Method""; ""B.3 Spectral Mapping Methods""; ""B.4 Principal Component (PC) Analysis""; ""B.5 Optimal Spectral Sampling""; ""Appendix C: Rough Surface Scattering and Transmission""; ""C.1 Scattering and Emission by Random Rough Surfaces"" ""Appendix D: Boundary Conditions"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131532703321 |
Stamnes Knut | ||
Weinheim, Germany : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Radiative transfer in coupled environmental systems : an introduction to forward and inverse modeling / / Knut Stamnes, Jakob J. Stamnes |
Autore | Stamnes Knut |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Weinheim, Germany : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (412 p.) |
Disciplina | 551.082 |
Collana | Wiley Series in Atmospheric Physics and Remote Sensing |
Soggetto topico | Geophysics |
ISBN |
3-527-69662-8
3-527-69660-1 3-527-69659-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Related Titles""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction""; ""1.1 Brief History""; ""1.2 What is Meant by a Coupled System?""; ""1.3 Scope""; ""1.4 Limitations of Scope""; ""Chapter 2: Inherent Optical Properties (IOPs)""; ""2.1 General Definitions""; ""2.2 Examples of Scattering Phase Functions""; ""2.3 Scattering Phase Matrix""; ""2.4 IOPs of a Polydispersion of Particles-Integration over the Size Distribution""; ""2.5 Scattering of an Electromagnetic Wave by Particles""
""2.6 Absorption and Scattering by Spherical Particles-Mie-Lorenz Theory""""2.7 Atmosphere IOPs""; ""2.8 Snow and Ice IOPs""; ""2.9 Water IOPs""; ""2.10 Fresnel Reflectance and Transmittance at a Plane Interface Between Two Coupled Media""; ""2.11 Surface Roughness Treatment""; ""2.12 Land Surfaces""; ""Problems""; ""Chapter 3: Basic Radiative Transfer Theory""; ""3.1 Derivation of the Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE)""; ""3.2 Radiative Transfer of Unpolarized Radiation in Coupled Systems""; ""3.3 Radiative Transfer of Polarized Radiation in Coupled Systems"" ""3.4 Methods of Solution of the RTE""""3.5 Calculation of Weighting Functions-Jacobians""; ""Problems""; ""Chapter 4: Forward Radiative Transfer Modeling""; ""4.1 Quadrature Rule-The Double-Gauss Method""; ""4.2 Discrete Ordinate Equations-Compact Matrix Formulation""; ""4.3 Discrete-Ordinate Solutions""; ""Problems""; ""Chapter 5: The Inverse Problem""; ""5.1 Probability and Rules for Consistent Reasoning""; ""5.2 Parameter Estimation""; ""5.3 Model Selection or Hypothesis Testing""; ""5.4 Assigning Probabilities""; ""5.5 Generic Formulation of the Inverse Problem"" ""5.6 Linear Inverse Problems""""5.7 Bayesian Approach to the Inverse Problem""; ""5.8 Ill Posedness or Ill Conditioning""; ""5.9 Nonlinear Inverse Problems""; ""Problems""; ""Chapter 6: Applications""; ""6.1 Principal Component (PC) Analysis""; ""6.2 Simultaneous Retrieval of Total Ozone Column (TOC) Amount and Cloud Effects""; ""6.3 Coupled Atmosphere-Snow-Ice Systems""; ""6.4 Coupled Atmosphere-Water Systems""; ""6.5 Simultaneous Retrieval of Aerosol and Aquatic Parameters""; ""6.6 Polarized RT in a Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean System""; ""6.7 What if MODIS Could Measure Polarization?"" ""Appendix A: Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves""""A.1 Absorption and Scattering by a Particle of Arbitrary Shape""; ""A.2 Absorption and Scattering by a Sphere-Mie Theory""; ""Appendix B: Spectral Sampling Strategies""; ""Transmission in an Isolated Spectral Line""; ""The Random Band Model""; ""B.1 The MODTRAN Band Model""; ""B.2 The k-Distribution Method""; ""B.3 Spectral Mapping Methods""; ""B.4 Principal Component (PC) Analysis""; ""B.5 Optimal Spectral Sampling""; ""Appendix C: Rough Surface Scattering and Transmission""; ""C.1 Scattering and Emission by Random Rough Surfaces"" ""Appendix D: Boundary Conditions"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811994003321 |
Stamnes Knut | ||
Weinheim, Germany : , : Wiley-VCH Verlag, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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