Advances in Systems Control and Informat Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Systems: Volume 4 Book 4 (Hardcover)

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.