Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Systems: Volume 4 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780080361987)

The Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Systems provides a concise overview of the current state of the art in the study of environmental systems. Contains specially commissioned articles and updated and revised articles from the acclaimed Systems & Control Encyclopedia. The subjects covered include: agricultural systems; atmospheric processes and air quality; ecosystems; environmental chemistry; geology, soil processes and geophysics; hydrology, fluid dynamics and water quality; marine processes; meteorology; and climatology. In addition, many of the articles cover the methodological procedures used in environmental systems analysis, with contributions on automatic control and management; computers in modelling and management; environmental planning; environmetric methods, including time-series analysis; mathematical modelling, including data-based, physically based and simulation modelling; remote sensing and image processing; uncertainty in environmental systems; and sensitivity analysis. The encyclopedia is extensively cross-referenced on two levels - to articles of direct relevance as well as to other articles which will provide the reader with more general background information.

Author: P. C. Young
ISBN-10: 0080361986
ISBN-13: 9780080361987
Publisher: Pergamon
Language: English
Published: 08/09/1993
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.44lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.63d