Advances in Geophysics
Geophysics is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to solid earth applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and composition; its dynamics and their surface expression in plate tectonics, the generation of magmas, volcanism and rock formation. However, modern geophysics organizations and pure scientists use a broader definition that includes the water cycle including snow and ice; fluid dynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere; electricity and magnetism in the ionosphere and magnetosphere and solar-terrestrial physics; and analogous problems associated with the Moon and other planets.
In the present book, ten typical literatures about geophysics published on international authoritative journals were selected to introduce the worldwide newest progress, which contains reviews or original researches on geophysics. We hope this book can demonstrate advances in geophysics as well as give references to the researchers, students and other related people.
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface (97 KB)
Components of the Book:
  • Chapter 1
    Satellite gravity gradient grids for geophysics
  • Chapter 2
    Contribution of geophysics to geometric characterization of freshwater–saltwater interface in the Maâmoura region (NE Tunisia)
  • Chapter 3
    Fibre Optic Methods of Prospecting: A Comprehensive and Modern Branch of Geophysics
  • Chapter 4
    Geophysics-Based Fluid-Facies Predictions Using Ensemble Updating of Binary State Vectors
  • Chapter 5
    Geodesy, Geophysics and Fundamental Physics Investigations of the BepiColombo Mission
  • Chapter 6
    Tectonic activity and earthquake risk in the Chengnanhe fault zone in Weihai city, Shandong province, China, obtained by using an integrated prospecting technique in geophysics and geology
  • Chapter 7
    Using integrated geophysics data set to delineate Phetchabun active fault in Thailand
  • Chapter 8
    Validation of Acoustic and Geophysics based Underwater Localization with an Autonomous Surface Vehicle
  • Chapter 9
    Hydraulic conductivity and geophysics (ERT) to assess the aquifer recharge capacity of an inland wetland in the Brazilian Savanna
  • Chapter 10
    Application of Parallel Algebraic Multigrid Algorithms in Geophysics
Readership: Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Geophysics
Johannes Bouman
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Munich, Germany

Achref Chabaane
Water Researches and Technologies Center Borj-Cedria (CERTE), BO 273, 8020 Soliman, Tunisia

David K. Potter
Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada

Dario Grana
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA

Antonio Genova
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184, Rome, Italy

and more...
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