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“raffaele de risi”

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  • Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard and Risk Analysis

    Towards Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience

    Edited by Katsuichiro Goda, Raffaele De Risi, Aditya Riadi Gusman, Ioan Nistor ...
    Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard and Risk Analysis: Towards Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience covers recent calls for advances in quantitative tsunami hazard and risk analyses for the synthesis of broad knowledge basis and solid understanding of interdisciplinary fields, spanning seismology, tsunami science, and coastal engineering. These new approaches are essential for enhanced disaster ... Read more

    $176.99 CAD

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  • Descriptive Physical Oceanography

    An Introduction

    by Lynne D. Talley ...
    Descriptive Physical Oceanography, Sixth Edition, provides an introduction to the field with an emphasis on large-scale oceanography based mainly on observations. Topics covered include the physical properties of seawater, heat and salt budgets, instrumentation, data analysis methods, introductory dynamics, oceanography and climate variability of each of the oceans and of the global ocean, and ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Artificial Intelligence Oceanography

    Edited by Xiaofeng Li, Fan Wang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book invites readers to learn how to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms to perform their research in oceanography. Various examples are exhibited to guide details of how to feed the big ocean data into the AI models to analyze and achieve optimized results. The number of scholars engaged in AI oceanography research will increase exponentially in the next decade. ... Read more

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  • Tsunamis

    Detection, Monitoring, and Early-Warning Technologies

    by Antony Joseph ...
    The devastating impacts of tsunamis have received increased focus since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, the most destructive tsunami in over 400 years of recorded history. The tsunamis that occurred as a result of the earthquake in Japan in March 2011 further emphasized the need for detection, monitoring, and early-warning technologies. This professional reference is the first of its kind: it ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Understanding Past Earthquakes

    Edited by Austin Elliott, Christoph Gruetzner ...
    This open access book presents the state of the art in research on the characteristics of past earthquakes. It presents an overview of contemporary developments, their use cases, and practical considerations, with the aim of introducing readers to recently developed methodologies as well as the sources, derivation, and handling of their uncertainties. The disparate fields of seismology, ... Read more

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  • Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks

    Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident

    Edited by Katsuhiro Kamae ...
    This book covers seismic probabilistic risk assessment (S-PRA) and related studies which have become more important to increase the safety of nuclear facilities against earthquakes and tsunamis in the face of the many uncertainties after the Fukushima accident. The topics are (1) Active faults and active tectonics important for seismic hazard assessment of nuclear facilities,(2) Seismic source ... Read more

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  • Volcano-Tectonic Processes

    by Valerio Acocella ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Volcanoes have terrified and, at the same time, fascinated civilizations for thousands of years. Many aspects of volcanoes, most notably the eruptive processes and the compositional variations of magma, have been widely investigated for several decades and today constitute the core of any volcanology textbook. Nevertheless, in the last two decades, boosted by the availability of volcano monitoring ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 3 Issue 1, 2024

    Edited by Biljana Abolmasov, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Željko Arbanas, David Huntley, Kazuo Konagai, Snježana Mihalić Arbanas, Matjaž Mikoš, Maneesha V. Ramesh, Kyoji Sassa, Shinji Sassa, Huiming Tang, Binod Tiwari ...
    Series Book 1 - Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 ... Read more

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  • Quantitative Fish Dynamics

    by Terrance J. Quinn, Richard B. Deriso ...
    Series series Biological Resource Management
    This book serves as an advanced text on fisheries and fishery population dynamics and as a reference for fisheries scientists. It provides a thorough treatment of contemporary topics in quantitative fisheries science and emphasizes the link between biology and theory by explaining the assumptions inherent in the quantitative methods. The analytical methods are accessible to a wide range of ... Read more

    $304.79 CAD

  • Natural Hazard Uncertainty Assessment

    Modeling and Decision Support

    Edited by Karin Riley, Peter Webley, Matthew Thompson ...
    Series Book 223 - Geophysical Monograph Series
    Uncertainties are pervasive in natural hazards, and it is crucial to develop robust and meaningful approaches to characterize and communicate uncertainties to inform modeling efforts. In this monograph we provide a broad, cross-disciplinary overview of issues relating to uncertainties faced in natural hazard and risk assessment. We introduce some basic tenets of uncertainty analysis, discuss ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Volcanic Seismology

    by Vyacheslav M Zobin ...
    Volcanic seismology represents the main, and often the only, tool to forecast volcanic eruptions and to monitor the eruption process. This book describes the main types of seismic signals at volcanoes, their nature and spatial and temporal distributions at different stages of eruptive activity. Following from the success of the first edition, published in 2003, the second edition consists of 19 ... Read more

    $159.99 CAD

  • Polar Ice and Global Warming in Cryosphere Regions

    Edited by Neloy Khare ...
    Series series Maritime Climate Change
    Polar Ice and Global Warming in Cryosphere Regions is based on recent and past climate variabilities data gathered through satellites and spatial-temporal analysis to explain the role of global warming on cryosphere regions such as high-latitude Himalaya, Arctic and Antarctic regions, and the surrounding Southern Ocean and Arctic Ocean. Through several case studies the book describes the ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD