CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS

Author: Edited By P.C. Young , Professor of Environmental Systems and Director, Centre for Research on Environmental Systems and Statistics, Institute of Environmental & Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster, UK

ISBN13: 9780080361987

Publisher: Elsevier

Price: €345.00
Pages: 0
Edition:
Publish date: agosto 1993

Outline:
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.