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Note: CONTENTS: Preface. - Definitions. - 1 Atmospheric Properties. - 1.1. Atmospheric Structure. - 1.1.1. Atmospheric Layers. - 1.1.2. Convective and Stable Boundary Layers. - 1.1.3. Boundary Layer Theory. - 1.2. Atmospheric Properties. - 1.2.1. Vertical Profiles of Temperature, Pressure and Number Density. - 1.2.2. Tropospheric and Stratospheric Aerosols. - 1.2.3. Particulate Sizes and Distributions. - 1.2.4. Atmospheric Data Sets. - 2 Light Propagation in the Atmosphere. - 2.1. Light Extinction and Transmittance. - 2.2. Total and Directional Elastic Scattering of the Light Beam. - 2.3. Light Scattering by Molecules and Particulates: Inelastic Scattering. - 2.3.1. Index of Refraction. - 2.3.2. Light Scattering by Molecules (Rayleigh Scattering). - 2.3.3. Light Scattering by Particulates (Mie Scattering). - 2.3.4. Monodisperse Scattering Approximation. - 2.3.5. Polydisperse Scattering Systems. - 2.3.6. Inelastic Scattering. - 2.4. Light Absorption by Molecules and Particulates. - 3 Fundamentals of the Lidar Technique. - 3.1. Introduction to the Lidar Technique. - 3.2. Lidar Equation and lts Constituents. - 3.2.1. The Single-Scattering Lidar Equation. - 3.2.2. The Multiple-Scattering Lidar Equation. - 3.3. Elastic Lidar Hardware. - 3.3.1 Typical Lidar Hardware. - 3.4. Practical Lidar lssues. - 3.4.1. Determination of the Overlap Function. - 3.4.2. Optical Filtering. - 3.4.3. Optical Alignment and Scanning. - 3.4.4. The Range Resolution of a Lidar. - 3.5. Eye Safety Issues and Hardware. - 3.5.1. Lidar-Radar Combination. - 3.5.2. Micropulse Lidar. - 3.5.3. Lidars Using Eye-Safe Laser Wavelengths. - 4 Detectors, Digitizers, Electronics. - 4.1. Detectors. - 4.1.1. General Types of Detectors. - 4.1.2. Specific Detector Devices. - 4.1.3. Detector Performance. - 4.1.4. Noise. - 4.1.5. Time Response. - 4.2. Electric Circuits for Optical Detectors. - 4.3. A-D Converters/Digitizers. - 4.3.1. Digitizing the Detector Signal. - 4.3.2. Digitizer Errors. - 4.3.3. Digitizer Use. - 4.4. General. - 4.4.1. Impedance Matching. - 4.4.2. Energy Monitaring Hardware. - 4.4.3. Photon Counting. - 4.4.4. Variable Amplification. - 5 Analytical Solutions of the Lidar Equation. - 5.1. Simple Lidar-Equation Solution for a Homogeneaus Atmosphere: Slope Method. - 5.2. BasicTransformation of the Elastic Lidar Equation. - 5.3. Lidar Equation Solution for a Single-Component Heterogeneaus Atmosphere. - 5.3.1. Boundary Point Solution. - 5.3.2. Optical Depth Solution. - 5.3.3. Solution Based on a Power-Law Relationship Between Backscatter and Extinction. - 5.4. Lidar Equation Solution for a Two-Component Atmosphere. - 5.5. Which Solution is Best?. - 6 Uncertainty Estimation for Lidar Measurements. - 6.1. Uncertainty for the Slope Method. - 6.2. Lidar Measurement Uncertainty in a Two-Component Atmosphere. - 6.2.1. General Formula. - 6.2.2. Boundary Point Solution: Influence of Uncertainty and Location of the Specified Boundary Value on the Uncertainty δkw(r). - 6.2.3. Boundary-Point Solution: lnfl.uence of the Particulate Backscatter-to-Extinction Ratio and the Ratio Between Kp(r) and Km(r) on Measurement Accuracy. - 6.3. Background Constituent in the Original Lidar Signal and Lidar Signal Averaging. - 7 Backscatter-to-Extinction Ratio. - 7.1. Exploration of the Backscatter-to-Extinction Ratios: Brief Review. - 7.2. lnfluence of Uncertainty in the Backscatter-to-Extinction Ratio on the Inversion Result. - 7.3. Problem of a Range-Dependent Backscatter-to-Extinction Ratio. - 7.3.1. Application of the Power-Law Relationship Between Backscattering and Total Scattering in Real Atmospheres: Overview. - 7.3.2. Application of a Range-Dependent Backscatter-to-Extinction Ratio in Two-Layer Atmospheres. - 7.3.3. Lidar Signal Inversion with an Iterative Procedure. - 8 Lidar Examination of Clear and Moderately Turbid Atmospheres. - 8.1. One-Directional Lidar Measurements: Methods and Problems. - 8.1.1. Application of a Particulate-Free Zone Approach. - 8.1.2. Iterative Method to Determine the Location of Clear Zones. - 8.1.3. Two-Boundary-Point and Optical Depth Solutions. - 8.1.4. Combination of the Boundary Point and Optical Depth Solutions. - 8.2. Inversion Techniques for a "Spotted" Atmosphere. - 8.2.1. General Principles of Localization of Atmospheric "Spots". - 8.2.2. Lidar-Inversion Techniques for Monitaring and Mapping Particulate Plumes and Thin Clouds. - 9 Multiangle Methods for Extinction Coefficient Determination. - 9.1. Angle-Dependent Lidar Equation and Its Basic Solution. - 9.2. Solution for the Layer-Integrated Form of the Anglenependent Lidar Equation. - 9.3. Solution for the Two-Angle Layer-Integrated Form of the Lidar Equation. - 9.4. Two-Angle Solution for the Angle-Independent Lidar Equation. - 9.5. High-Altitude Tropospheric Measurements with Lidar. - 9.6. Which Method Is the Best?. - 10 Differential Absorption Lidar Technique (DIAL). - 10.1. DIAL Processing Technique: Fundamentals. - 10.1.1. General Theory. - 10.1.2. Uncertainty of the Backscatter Corrections in Atmospheres with Large Gradients of Aerosol Backscattering. - 10.1.3. Dependence of the DIAL Equation Correction Terms on the Spectral Range Interval Between the On and Off Wavelengths. - 10.2. DIAL Processing Technique: Problems. - 10.2.1. Uncertainty of the DIAL Solution for Column Content of the Ozone Concentration. - 10.2.2. Transition from Integrated to Range-Resolved Ozone Concentration: Problems of Numerical Differentiation and Data Smoothing. - 10.3. Other Techniques for DIAL Data Processing. - 10.3.1. DIAL Nonlinear Approximation Technique for Determining Ozone Concentration Profiles. - 10.3.2. Compensational Three-Wavelength DIAL Technique. - 11 Hardware Solutions to the Inversion Problem. - 11.1. Use of N2 Raman Scattering for Extinction Measurement. - 11.1.1. Method. - 11.1.2. Limitations of the Method. - 11.1.3. Uncertainty. - 11.1.4. Altemate Methods. - 11.1.5. Determination of Water Content in Clouds. - 11.2. Resolution of Particulate and Molecular Scattering by Filtration. - 11.2.1. Background. - 11.2.2. Method. - 11.2.3. Hardware. - 11.2.4. Atomic Absorption Filters. - 11.2.5. Sources of Uncertainty. - 11.3. Multiple-Wavelength Lidars. - 11.3.1. Application of Multiple-Wavelength Lidars for the Extraction of Particulate Optical Parameters. - 11.3.2. Investigation of Particulate Microphysical Parameters with Multiple-Wavelength Lidars. - 11.3.3. Limitations of the Method. - 12 Atmospheric Parameters from Elastic Lidar Data. - 12.1. Visual Range in Horizontal Directions. - 12.1.1. Definition of Terms. - 12.1.2. Standard Instrumentation and Measurement Uncertainties. - 12.1.3. Methods of the Horizontal Visibility Measurement with Lidar. - 12.2. Visual Range in Slant Directions. - 12.2.1. Definition of Terms and the Concept of the Measurement. - 12.2.2. Asymptotic Method in Slant Visibility Measurement. - 12.3. Temperature Measurements. - 12.3.1. Rayleigh Scattering Temperature Technique. - 12.3.2. Metal Ion Differential Absorption. - 12.3.3. Differential Absorption Methods. - 12.3.4. Doppler Broadening of the Rayleigh Spectrum. - 12.3.5. Rotational Raman Scattering. - 12.4. Boundary Layer Height Determination. - 12.4.1. Profile Methods. - 12.4.2. Multidimensional Methods. - 12.5. Cloud Boundary Determination. - 13 Wind Measurement Methods from Elastic Lidar Data. - 13.1. Correlation Methods to Determine Wind Speed and Direction. - 13.1.1. Point Correlation Methods. - 13.1.2. Two-Dimensional Correlation Method. - 13.1.3. Fourier Cerrelation Analysis. - 13.1.4. Three-Dimensional Correlation Method. - 13.1.5. Multiple-Beam Technique. - 13.1.6. Uncertainty in Correlation Methods. - 13.2. Edge Technique. - 13.3. Fringe Imaging Technique. - 13.4. Kinetic Energy, Dissipation Rate, and Divergence. - Bibliography. - Index.

Note: Ch. 1. Structure and development of a plant : an overview -- ch. 2. The protoplast : plasma membrane, nucleus, and cytoplasmic organelles -- ch. 3. The protoplast : endomembrane system, secretory pathways, cytoskeleton, and stored compounds -- ch. 4. Cell wall -- ch. 5. Meristems and differentiation -- ch. 6. Apical meristems -- ch. 7. Parenchyma and collenchyma -- ch. 8. Sclerenchyma -- ch. 9. Epidermis -- ch. 10. Xylem : cell types and developmental aspects -- ch. 11. Xylem : secondary xylem and variations in wood structure -- ch. 12. Vascular cambium -- ch. 13. Phloem : cell types and developmental aspects -- ch. 14. Phloem : secondary phloem and variations in its structure -- ch. 15. Periderm -- ch. 16. External secretory structures -- ch. 17. Internal secretory structures.

Note: The Sun. The formation of the stars and the Sun ; The characteristics of the Sun ; A representation of the Sun ; The internal structure of the Sun ; The photosphere, solar radiation, the solar wind ; The thermal profile of the solar atmosphere ; Solar dynamics ; The Sun: the source of space weather -- The Earth. The Earth within the solar system ; The internal structure of the Earth : the geomagnetic field ; The atmosphere of the Earth ; The magnetosphere -- Toward a space weather. The consequences of solar agressions on our technological environment ; Other impacts of solar activity ; Space weather in order to forecast -- Appendices..

Note: Section 1. Weather rankings -- Section 2. Major storm events -- Section 3. State chapters -- Section 4. Appendices.

Note: One way to shape technology and its embedding in society in the 21st century is through the visions that guide their development, especially concerning the long-term societal perspective. A critical discussion and assessment of these visions is a prerequisite for influencing the course of development. Technology assessment, therefore, has to provide a methodological repertoire for assessing and constructing visions, taking into account the requirements for long-term orientation and the need for public legitimation. This volume draws upon insights from technology assessment (TA), political sciences, epistemology, sociology and ethics. It contributes to the recent literature on "shaping technology", taking into account the "co-evolution of technology and society". It is connected to the TA literature that emphasises TA's pro-active role and its contricution to political judgement. It uses those insights from policy planning and epistemology that may help to reconcile long-term planning and public legitimacy

Note: Contents: PART I GEOLOGICAL AND PALEOECOLOGICAL EVENTS OF THE LATE PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE IN NORTHERN EURASIA. - 1 Geological and Paleoecological Events of the Late Pleistocene along Eurasian Coastal Areas of the Arctic Ocean. - General Upper Pleistocene Stratigraphie Scheme for Northern Eurasia. - Duration of the Mikulino Interglaciation. - Correlation of the Natural Events Correlative with MIS 5d-5a in Northern West Europe and Northwestern Russia. - 2 Late Pleistocene Geologic-Paleoecological Events in the North of European Russia. - Relationship between Land and Sea Areas during the Mikulino Interglacial in Northern Eurasia. - Genetic Types of Continental Sediments. - Marine Sediments of the Boreal Transgression in the North of European Russia. - 3 Main Geologic-Paieoecoioglcal Events of the Late Pleistocene in the North of Western Siberia. - 4 Geologic-Paleoecological Events of the late Pleistocene in the Northern-Siberian Lowland and Taimyr Peninsula. - 5 The Late Glacial Time and Holocene of Northern Eurasia. - 6 Outlines of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene History of the East Arctic Seas. - 7 The Deglaciation Time and Holocene of Northern Eurasia. - PART II MARINE SEDIMENTATION IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN AND SUBARCTIC SEAS. - 8 The Seas of West Subarctic Region. - Geologic and Oceanographic Setting. - History of Sedimentation. - History of Sedimentation Rates. - History of Sedimentation on the Vøring Plateau During the Last 25 ka. - History of Sedimentation at the Continental Margin of Eastern and South-Eastern Greenland During the Last 130 ka. - 9 The Arctic Ocean. - Recent Environment. - Morphostructure, Oceanographic and Sea-Ice Setting, Recent Sediments and Their Mineral Composition. - Facies Variations of Holocene Sediments on the Yermak Plateau (According to Study Data of 〉 63 mkm Fraction). - History of Sedimentation. - History of Sedimentation Rates During the Last 130 ka. - History of Sedimentation on the Yermak Plateau During the Last 190 ka. - Organic-Geochemical Sediment Studies of the Eastern Part of the Central Arctic. - 10 The Western Arctic Seas. - Recent Sedimentation Environment. - The Barents Sea. - The Kara Sea. - Surface Sediments of the Pechora Sea. - Surface Sediments of St. Anna Trough. - Facies Zonality of Surface Sediments in the Eastern Kara Sea. - History of Sedimentation. - Late- and Post-Glacial History of Sedimentation in the Eastern Part of the Barents Sea. - Holocene Sedimentation History in the Southern Novaya Zemlya Trough. - History of Sedimentation in the Pechora Sea During the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. - Light Fraction Mineralogy of the Upper Quaternary Sediments from the Saint Anna Trough and Its Paleoceanographic Interpretation. - Holocene History of Yenisei River Discharge. - Holocene History of Ob River Discharge. - 11 Eastern Arctic Seas. - Recent Sedimentation Environment. - The Laptev Sea. - The East Siberian Sea. - The Chukchi Sea. - History of Sedimentation. - History of Sedimentation in the Laptev Sea During the Late Weichselian to Holocene by Geophysical and Geochemical Data. - Holocene History of the Lena and Other Rivers Discharge in the Laptev Sea. - Organic Geochemical Data About Sedimentation History Along the Continental Slope of the East Siberian Sea During the Last Climatic Cycle. - Preliminary Data About Accumulation of Diatom-Bearing Clayey Silts at the Chukchi Sea Shelf. - 12 Seas of the Eastern Subarctic. - Recent Sedimentation Environment. - History of Sedimentation. - History of Sedimentation in the Deep-Water Part of the Shirshov Ridge (Bering Sea) During the Last Three Marine-Isotope Stages. - History of Sedimentation in the Northern Sea of Okhotsk During the Last 1.1 Ma. - PART III THE LATE PLEISTOCENE PALEOGEOGRAPHIC EVENTS OF NORTHERN EURASIA AND HISTORY OF SEDIMENTATION IN THE SUBARCTIC SEAS AND THE ARCTIC OCEAN IN RELATION TO THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE GLACIATION DURING THE LAST CLIMATIC CYCLE. - 13 Characteristic Features of the Mikulino Landscapes. - 14 Results of Paleoclimate Studies. - 15 Particularities of Sedimentation Processes Within the Continental Blocks and Marine Basins. - Deglaciation Peculiarities. - Facies Variability during Glaciations, Deglaciations, Interglacials. - Geological History of the Arctic Ocean Sea Ice during the Last 60 ka. - Intercoupling of Atmo-, Hydro-, Cryo-, Bio-, and Lithospheres. - References. - Index.

Note: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface / R. Matzke-Karasz, M. Schudack, K. Martens. - REVIEW PAPER. - Ostracod recovery in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic crisis: Palaeozoic-Mesozoic turnover / S. Crasquin-Soleau, T. Galfetti, H. Bucher, S. Kershaw, Q. Feng. - OSTRACOD TAXONOMY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY. - The influence of El Niño 1997-98 on pelagic ostracods in the Humboldt Current Ecosystem off Peru / R. Castillo, T. Antezana, P. Ayón. - A new, interstitial species of Terrestricythere (Crustacea: Ostracoda) and its microdistribution at Orito Beach, northeastern Sea of Japan / S. F. Hiruta, S.-i. Hiruta, S. F. Mawatari. - Non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) of Banat district in Serbia / T. Karan-Žnidaršič, B. Petrov. - ECOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING OSTRACOD DISTRIBUTION. - A year round comparative study on the population structures of pelagic Ostracoda in Admiralty Bay (Southern Ocean) / K. Blachowiak-Samolyk, M.V. Angel. - Water quality and diversity of the Recent ostracod fauna in lowland springs from Lombardy (northern Italy) / V. Pieri, C. Caserini, S. Gomarasca, K. Martens, G. Rossetti. - Factors affecting spatial and temporal distribution of Ostracoda assemblages in different macrophyte habitats of a shallow lake (Lake Fehér, Hungary) / A. Kiss. - Groundwater Ostracods from the arid Pilbara region of northwestern Australia: distribution and water chemistry / J. M. Reeves, P. De Deckker, S. A. Halse. - Ecological requirements of Ostracoda (Crustacea) in a heavily polluted shallow lake, Lake Yeniçağa (Bolu, Turkey) / O. Külköylüoğlu, M. Dügel, M. Kılıç. - Food selection in Eucypris virens (Crustacea: Ostracoda) under experimental conditions / O. Schmit, G. Rossetti, J. Vandekerkhove, F. Mezquita. - EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE OF OSTRACOD MORPHOLOGY. - Extra-lobal and complex dimorphic features in Middle Devonian palaeocopine ostracods / G. Becker, W. K. Braun. - Evolutionary and taxonomic aspects within the species group Pseudocandona eremita (Vejdovský) (Ostracoda, Candonidae) / S. lepure, T. Namiotko, D. L. Danielopol. - On the origin of the putative furca of the Ostracoda (Crustacea) / C. Meisch. - Ultrastructure of the carapace margin in the Ostracoda (Arthropoda: Crustacea) / S. Yamada. - Ultrastructure of hepatopancreas and its possible role as a hematopoietic organ in non-marine cypridoidean ostracods (Crustacea) / R. Symonova. - OSTRACOD REPRODUCTION AND ONTOGENY. - Copulatory behaviour and sexual morphology of three Fabaeformiscandona Krstić, 1972 (Candoninae, Ostracoda, Crustacea) species from Japan, including descriptions of two new species / R. J. Smith, T. Kamiya. - Early release of eggs and embryos in a brooding ancient asexual ostracod: brood selection or a gambling strategy to increase fecundity? / R. L. Pinto, C. E. F. Rocha, K. Martens. - The ontogeny of appendages of Heterocypris salina (Brady, 1868) Ostracoda (Crustacea) / N. Kubanç, O. Özuluğ, C. Kubanç.

Note: Zugl.: Amsterdam, Univ., Diss., 2007.

Note: The conundrum of the case study -- What is a case study? the problem of definition -- What is a case study good for? case study versus large-n cross-case analysis -- Preliminaries -- Techniques for choosing cases -- Internal validity : an experimental template -- Internal validity : process tracing -- Epilogue : single-outcome studies..

Note: Table of Contents: SESSION 1: EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. - Simulation of the Arctic in Global Climate Models / John E. Walsh. - Model assessment of observed contemporary trends in Arctic Climate / Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, Alan Robock, David A. Robinson, Richard L. Armstrong, Ronald J. Stouffer, Thomas L. Delworth, Anthony J. Broccoli, Keith W. Dixon. - Sea ice motion in response to the Arctic Oscillation / Ignatius G. Rigor, John M. Wallace, Roger L. Colony. - Arctic temperature change from long instrumental and paleoclimatic records / P. D. Jones. - Sea ice thinning in the Nansen basin and Greenland Sea / Peter Wadhams. - How anaomalous is the current state of the Arctic? / Ernst Augstein and Rüdiger Gerdes. - Warming of the Arctic in 1920s-1930s and 1980s-1990s / Genrikh V. Alekseev, Victor F. Zakharov, Roger L. Colony, Mark A. Johnson. - Variations in surface air temperature over the Arctic Ocean / Ignatius G. Rigor, Roger L. Colony, John M. Wallace and Seelye Martin. - Seasonal and regional perspectives of Arctic Sea Ice Oscillation: wavelet analysis / Jia Wang and Moto Ikeda. - Observations of ice sheet mass balance and climate change / J. Jay Zwally. - European contributions for Summit Greenland Environment Observatory / Atsumu Ohmura. - Features of seasonal and interannual variability of the water circulation and sea level of the Arctic Ocean / Vladimir K. Pavlov. - SESSION 2: PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTIONS. - Climate surprises: lessons from tropical ice cores / Lonnie G. Thompson. - Temporal and spatial nature of change in the circum-polar Arctic / Roy M. Koerner, Bea T. Alt. - Greenland ice core contributions to PARCA (Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment) with emphasis on reconstructing annual accumulation histories / Ellen Mosley-Thompson and PARCA Collaborators. - Climatic and environmental histories for the last two centuries from Arctic ice cores / Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Roy M. Koerner, David A. Fisher, Okitsugu Watanabe. - A coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM experiment for 6 kyr BP and 21 kyr BP / Akio Kitoh, Shigenori Murakami. - Concentration variations of atmospheric methane over the past 340 kyrs deduced from Dome Fuji ice core / T. Nakazawa, S. Aoki, K. Kawamura and O. Watanabe. - Physical properties of Dome Fuji ice cores and paleoenvironmental reconstruction / T. Hondoh, H. Narita, A. Hori, T. Ikeda-Fukazawa, S. Mae, S. Fujita, H. Fukazawa, T. Fukumura, H. Shoji, T. Kameda, A. Miyamoto, N. Azuma, Y. Wong, K. Kawada, O. Watanabe, H. Motoyama. - Variations in the oceanographic environment during last 120 kyr in the Sea of Okhotsk / Takeshi Nakatsuka & the Okhotsk Sediment Core Analyses Group. - SESSION 3: PROCESSES, INTERACTIONS AND FEEDBACKS. - Sea surface temperatures off the East coast of Japan at the last glacial maximum inferred from oxygen isotope of foraminiferal tests / T. Oba. - Hydrologic response and feedbacks to a warmer climate in Arctic regions / Larry D. Hinzman, Kenji Yoshikawa, Douglas L. Kane. - Variability and trends in the hydro-climatology of the major Eurasian Arctic drainages / Mark C. Serreze, Martyn P. Clark, Andrew J. Etringer, David H. Bromwich. - Factors that determine when the seasonal snowmelt occurs in Northern Alaska / Robert S. Stone. - On the role of Siberia in global change / Kunihiko Kodera. - A study of Arctic oscillation induced by a positive feedback between the polar vortex and baroclinic instability / H. L. Tanaka and Hiroki Tokinaga. - A climatology of small-scale disturbances in the polar stratosphere / Kaoru Sato, Motoyoshi Yoshiki and Masaaki Takahashi. - Impacts of winter warming event on the cryosphere in the polar regions / Hiroyuki Enomoto. - Climatic impact of the Arctic aerosols ased on ASTAR 2000 (Arctic study of Tropospheric Aerosol and Radiation) field campaign / Takashi Yamanouchi and Andreas Herber. - Preliminary observational results of international Okhotsk Sea study / Masaaki Wakatsuchi. - Ice albedo feedback effect on sea ice / ocean coupled system in the Antarctic / Kay I. Ohshima and Sohey Nihashi. - Land surface processes in the tundra region of Eastern Siberia / Tetsuo Ohata, Yuji Kodama and Yoshiyuki Ishii. - Influence of the Aleutian/Icelandic low seesaw upon the seasonality of the variability in the Northern Hemisphere / Hisashi Nakamura and Meiji Honda. - SESSION 4: CLIMATE MODELING. - Arctic climate variability in the 20th century / Andrey Proshutinsky. - A sensitivity study of the Arctic climate on the basis of regional and global climate model simulations / K. Dethloff, A. Rinke, T. Kandlbinder, W. Dorn, M. Fortmann, D. Handorf, A. Weisheimer, A. H. Lynch, J. H. Christensen, M. Botzet. - Simulation of climate change in the 20th century / Thomas L. Delworth and Thomas R. Knutson. - GCM Simulations of polar climate variability and change / Vladimir M. Kattsov. - Arctic Alaska climate simulations using the regional atmospheric modeling system / Glen E. Liston, Joseph P. McFadden, Roger A. Pielke, Sr. - Role of North Pacific sea ice in climate variability of the NCAR climate model / Uma S. Bhatt, Srpa Häkkinen, Jack S. Miller. - Intercomparison study of Arctic oscillation (AO) and AO-like climate change simulated by various coupled general circulation models / Akira Noda, Kazuki Yamaguchi. - SESSION 5: CONSEQUENCES AND IMPACTS OF CHANGE. - Impacts of climate change in the Arctic / Gunter Weller. - The changes of permafrost induced by greenhouse warming: a numerical study applying multiple-layer ground model / Kazuki Yamaguchi, Akira Noda, Akio Kitoh. - The Northern Sea route and the perspective / H. Kitagawa. - POSTER SESSION. - Evolution of glaciation on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago during global warmings / M. D. Ananicheva, N. V. Davidovich. - Radar echo characteristics at Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen Island and Arctic storms over the Norwegian Sea / Yoshio Asuma, Nao Ogitani, Makoto Wada. - Projections of the anthropogenic air surface temperature variations onto the modes of internal climate variability / Roman V. Bekryaev. - Under-ice melt pools as an acceleration factor of Arctic sea ice melting / Pyotr V. Bogorodsky. - The coastal erosion as a significant source of the particulate matter into the Arctic shelf / Oleg V. Dudarev, Igor P. Semiletov, Anatoly I. Botsul, Igor V. Utkin, Vladimir V. Anikiev, Georgy M. Kolesov, Dmitry Yu. Sapozhnikov. - Relationships between Arctic circulation anomaly and mid-latitude transient eddy activity during NH Winter / Masamitsu Hayasaki, H. L. Tanaka. - Abrupt changes in meteorological conditions observed at an inland Antarctic Station in association with wintertime blocking / Naohiko Hirasawa, Hisashi Nakamura, Takashi Yamanouchi. - Seasonal dependence and life cycle of the interannual seesaw between the Aleutian and Icelandic lows / Meiji Honda, Hisashi Nakamura, Jinro Ukita. - Atmospheric control over the interannual variability of the Eurasian continent surface conditions / Masatake E. Hori, Tetsuzo Yasunari. - Hydrological simulation of the Lena River basin, Siberia / Xieyao Ma, Yoshihiro Fukushima, Tetsuo Ohata. - Measurements of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes over an Arctic coastal Tundra ecosystem in 2000 growing season / M. Mano, Y. Harazono, A. Miyata, R. C. Zulueta, W. C. Oechel. - Acoustic measure of climate change in the Arctic Ocean / Peter N. Mikhalevsky, Alexander N. Gavrilov. - Variability of water properties along the Barrow Canyon and the shelf-break of the Beaufort Sea observed from the R/V Mirai MR99-K05 and MR00-K06 cruises / Shigeto Nishino, Chikashi Kobayashi, Takashi Kikuchi, Koji Shimada, Takatoshi Takizawa. - Estimate of the predictability of the atmosphere in the Arctic / Daisuke Nohara, H. L. Tanaka. - Does the fresh water supply from the Amur River flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk affect sea ice formation? / Masayo Ogi, Yoshihiro Tachibana, Michael A. Danchenkov, Koji Yamazaki, Kensuke Takeuchi. - On the role of internal ice stress in mo

Note: Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Randomization. - 1.1 The Idea of a Randomization Test. - 1.2 Examples of Randomization Tests. - 1.3 Aspects of Randomization Testing Raised by the Examples. - 1.3.1 Sampling the Randomization Distribution or Systematic Enumeration. - 1.3.2 Equivalent Test Statistics. - 1.3.3 Significance Levels for Classical and Randomization Tests. - 1.3.4 Limitations of Randomization Tests. - 1.4 Confidence Limits by Randomization. - 1.5 Applications of Randomization in Biology and Related Areas. - 1.5.1 Single Species Ecology. - 1.5.2 Genetics, Evolution, and Natural Selection. - 1.5.3 Community Ecology. - 1.5.4 Other Environmental Applications. - 1.6 Randomization and Observational Studies. - 1.7 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 2 The Jackknife. - 2.1 The Jackknife Estimator. - 2.2 Applications of Jackknifing in Biology. - 2.2.1 Single-Species Analyses. - 2.2.2 Genetics, Evolution, and Natural Selection. - 2.2.3 Community Ecology. - 2.3 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 3 The Bootstrap. - 3.1 Resampling with Replacement. - 3.2 Standard Bootstrap Confidence Limits. - 3.3 Simple Percentile Confidence Limits. - 3.4 Bias- Corrected Percentile Confidence Limits. - 3.5 Accelerated Bias-Corrected Percentile Limits. - 3.6 Other Methods for Constructing Confidence Intervals. - 3.7 Transformations to Improve Bootstrap-t Intervals. - 3.8 Parametric Confidence Intervals. - 3.9 A Better Estimate of Bias. - 3.10 Bootstrap Tests of Significance. - 3.11 Balanced Bootstrap Sampling. - 3.12 Applications of Bootstrapping in Biology. - 3.12.1 Single-Species Ecology. - 3.12.2 Genetics, Evolution, and Natural Selection. - 3.12.3 Community Ecology. - 3.12.4 Other Ecological and Environmental Applications. - 3.13 Further Reading. - 3.14 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 4 Monte Carlo Methods. - 4.1 Monte Carlo Tests. - 4.2 Generalized Monte Carlo Tests. - 4.3 Implicit Statistical Models. - 4.4 Applications of Monte Carlo Methods in Biology. - 4.4.1 Single-Species Ecology. - 4.4.2 Genetics and Evolution. - 4.4.3 Community Ecology. - 4.5 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 5 Some General Considerations. - 5.1 Questions about Computer-Intensive Methods. - 5.2 Power. - 5.3 Number of Random Sets of Data Needed for a Test. - 5.4 Determining a Randomization Distribution Exactly. - 5.5 The Number of Replications for Confidence Intervals. - 5.6 More Efficient Bootstrap Sampling Methods. - 5.7 The Generation of Pseudo-Random Numbers. - 5.8 The Generation of Random Permutations. - 5.9 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 6 One- and Two-Sample Tests. - 6.1 The Paired Comparisons Design. - 6.2 The One-Sample Randomization Test. - 6.3 The Two-Sample Randomization Test. - 6.4 Bootstrap Tests. - 6.5 Randomizing Residuals. - 6.6 Comparing the Variation in Two Samples. - 6.7 A Simulation Study. - 6.8 The Comparison of Two Samples on Multiple Measurements. - 6.9 Further Reading. - 6.10 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 7 Analysis of Variance. - 7.1 One-Factor Analysis of Variance. - 7.2 Tests for Constant Variance. - 7.3 Testing for Mean Differences Using Residuals. - 7.4 Examples of More Complicated Types of Analysis of Variance. - 7.5 Procedures for Handling Unequal Variances. - 7.6 Other Aspects of Analysis of Variance. - 7.7 Further Reading. - 7.8 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 8 Regression Analysis. - 8.1 Simple Linear Regression. - 8.2 Randomizing Residuals. - 8.3 Testing for a Nonzero β Value. - 8.4 Confidence Limits for β. - 8.5 Multiple Linear Regression. - 8.6 Alternative Randomization Methods with Multiple Regression. - 8.7 Bootstrapping and Jackknifing with Regression. - 8.8 Further Reading. - 8.9 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 9 Distance Matrices and Spatial Data. - 9.1 Testing for Association between Distance Matrices. - 9.2 The Mantel Test. - 9.3 Sampling the Randomization Distribution. - 9.4 Confidence Limits for Regression Coefficients. - 9.5 The Multiple Mantel Test. - 9.6 Other Approaches with More Than Two Matrices. - 9.7 Further Reading. - 9.8 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 10 Other Analyses on Spatial Data. - 10.1 Spatial Data Analysis. - 10.2 The Study of Spatial Point Patterns. - 10.3 Mead's Randomization Test. - 10.4 Tests for Randomness Based on Distances. - 10.5 Testing for an Association between Two Point Patterns. - 10.6 The Besag-Diggle Test. - 10.7 Tests Using Distances between Points. - 10.8 Testing for Random Marking. - 10.9 Further Reading. - 10.10 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 11 Time Series. - 11.1 Randomization and Time Series. - 11.2 Randomization Tests for Serial Correlation. - 11.3 Randomization Tests for Trend. - 11.4 Randomization Tests for Periodicity. - 11.5 Irregularly Spaced Series. - 11.6 Tests on Times of Occurrence. - 11.7 Discussion on Procedures for Irregular Series. - 11.8 Bootstrap Methods. - 11.9 Monte Carlo Methods. - 11.10 Model-Based vs. Moving-Block Resampling. - 11.11 Further Reading. - 11.12 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 12 Multivariate Data. - 12.1 Univariate and Multivariate Tests. - 12.2 Sample Mean Vectors and Covariance Matrices. - 12.3 Comparison of Sample Mean Vectors. - 12.4 Chi-Squared Analyses for Count Data. - 12.5 Comparison of Variations for Several Samples. - 12.6 Principal Components Analysis and Other One-Sample Methods. - 12.7 Discriminant Function Analysis. - 12.8 Further Reading. - 12.9 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 13 Survival and Growth Data. - 13.1 Bootstrapping Survival Data. - 13.2 Bootstrapping for Variable Selection. - 13.3 Bootstrapping for Model Selection. - 13.4 Group Comparisons. - 13.5 Growth Data. - 13.6 Further Reading. - 13.7 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 14 Nonstandard Situations. - 14.1 The Construction of Tests in Nonstandard Situations. - 14.2 Species Co-Occurrences on Islands. - 14.3 Alternative Switching Algorithms. - 14.4 Examining Time Changes in Niche Overlap. - 14.5 Probing Multivariate Data with Random Skewers. - 14.6 Ant Species Sizes in Europe. - 14.7 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 15 Bayesian Methods. - 15.1 The Bayesian Approach to Data Analysis. - 15.2 The Gibbs Sampler and Related Methods. - 15.3 Biological Applications. - 15.4 Further Reading. - 15.5 Chapter Summary. - Chapter 16 Final Comments. - 16.1 Randomization. - 16.2 Bootstrapping. - 16.3 Monte Carlo Methods in General. - 16.4 Classical vs. Bayesian Inference. - References. - Appendix Software for Computer-Intensive Statistics. - Author Index. - Subject Index.

Note: Contents: 1 Introduction and examples. - 1.1 Introduction. - 1.2 Why Bayes?. - 1.2.1 Estimating the probability of a rare event. - 1.2.2 Building a predictive model. - 1.3 Where we are going. - 1.4 Discussion and further references. - 2 Belief, probability and exchangeability. - 2.1 Belief functions and probabilities. - 2.2 Events, partitions and Bayes' rule. - 2.3 Independence. - 2.4 Random variables. - 2.4.1 Discrete random variables. - 2.4.2 Continuous random variables. - 2.4.3 Descriptions of distributions. - 2.5 Joint distributions. - 2.6 Independent random variables. - 2.7 Exchangeability. - 2.8 de Finetti's theorem. - 2.9 Discussion and further references. - 3 One-parameter models. - 3.1 The binomial model. - 3.1.1 Inference for exchangeable binary data. - 3.1.2 Confidence regions. - 3.2 The Poisson model. - 3.2.1 Posterior inference . - 3.2.2 Example: Birth rates. - 3.3 Exponential families and conjugate priors. - 3.4 Discussion and further references. - 4 Monte Carlo approximation. - 4.1 The Monte Carlo method. - 4.2 Posterior inference for arbitrary functions. - 4.3 Sampling from predictive distributions. - 4.4 Posterior predictive model checking. - 4.5 Discussion and further references. - 5 The normal model. - 5.1 The normal model. - 5.2 Inference for the mean, conditional on the variance. - 5.3 Joint inference for the mean and variance. - 5.4 Bias, variance and mean squared error. - 5.5 Prior specification based on expectations. - 5.6 The normal model for non-normal data. - 5.7 Discussion and further references. - 6 Posterior approximation with the Gibbs sampler. - 6.1 A semiconjugate prior distribution. - 6.2 Discrete approximations. - 6.3 Sampling from the conditional distributions. - 6.4 Gibbs sampling. - 6.5 General properties of the Gibbs sampler. - 6.6 Introduction to MCMC diagnostics. - 6.7 Discussion and further references. - 7 The multivariate normal model. - 7.1 The multivariate normal density. - 7.2 A semiconjugate prior distribution for the mean. - 7.3 The inverse-Wishart distribution. - 7.4 Gibbs sampling of the mean and covariance. - 7.5 Missing data and imputation. - 7.6 Discussion and further references. - 8 Group comparisons and hierarchical modeling. - 8.1 Comparing two groups. - 8.2 Comparing multiple groups. - 8.2.1 Exchangeability and hierarchical models. - 8.3 The hierarchical normal model. - 8.3.1 Posterior inference. - 8.4 Example: Math scores in U.S. public schools. - 8.4.1 Prior distributions and posterior approximation. - 8.4.2 Posterior summaries and shrinkage. - 8.5 Hierarchical modeling of means and variances. - 8.5.1 Analysis of math score data. - 8.6 Discussion and further references. - 9 Linear regression. - 9.1 The linear regression model. - 9.1.1 Least squares estimation for the oxygen uptake data. - 9.2 Bayesian estimation for a regression model. - 9.2.1 A semiconjugate prior distribution. - 9.2.2 Default and weakly informative prior distributions. - 9.3 Model selection. - 9.3.1 Bayesian model comparison. - 9.3.2 Gibbs sampling and model averaging. - 9.4 Discussion and further references. - 10 Nonconjugate priors and Metropolis-Hastings algorithms. - 10.1 Generalized linear models. - 10.2 The Metropolis algorithm. - 10.3 The Metropolis algorithm for Poisson regression. - 10.4 Metropolis, Metropolis-Hastings and Gibbs. - 10.4.1 The Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. - 10.4.2 Why does the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm work?. - 10.5 Combining the Metropolis and Gibbs algorithms. - 10.5.1 A regression model with correlated errors. - 10.5.2 Analysis of the ice core data. -

Note: Contents: Contents: 1. A long, dark shadow over democratic politics ; 2. The doctrine of democratic irrationalism ; 3. Is democratic voting inaccurate? ; 4. The Arrow general possibility theorem ; 5. Is democracy meaningless? Arrow's condition of unrestricted domain ; 6. Is democracy meaningless? Arrow's condition of the independence of irrelevant alternatives ; 7. Strategic voting and agenda control ; 8. Multidimensional chaos ; 9. Assuming irrational actors: the Powell Amendment ; 10. Assuming irrational actors: the Depew amendment ; 11. Unmanipulating the manipulation: the Wilmot proviso ; 12. Unmanipulating the manipulation: the election of Lincoln ; 13. Antebellum politics concluded ; 14. More of Riker's cycles debunked ; 15. Other cycles debunked ; 16. New dimensions ; 17. Plebiscitarianism against democracy : 18. Democracy resplendent

Note: Contents: Introduction / Günther G. Schulze and Heinrich W. Ursprung -- International trade, investment, and the environment: theoretical issues / Günther G. Schulze and Heinrich W. Ursprung -- the empirical evidence on trade, investment, and the environment / Günther G. Schulze and Heinrich W. Ursprung -- the political economy of international trade and the environment / Günther g. Schulze and Heinrich W. Ursprung -- Trade, agriculture, and the environment / David E. Ervin -- International trade and sustainable forestry / Edward B. Barbier -- International trade in Hazardous waste Michael Rauscher -- Environmental taxation in open economies: trade policy distortions and the double dividend / Sjak Smulders -- Sustainable growth in open economies / Lucas Bretschger and Hannes Egli -- Incentives for international environmental cooperation: theoretical models and economic instruments / Carsten Schmidt -- Governing the global environmental commons: the political economy of international environmental treaties and institutions / Roger Congleton

Note: Contents: Introduction ; Part 1 - Spin Glasses ; 1. The Replica Approach ; 2 The Tap Approach ; 3 Breaking the Replica Symmetry ; 4 The Nature of the Spin Glass Phase ; 5 The Cavity Method ; 6 Dynamics ; Part 2 - Optimization ; 7 Combinatorial Optimization Problems ; 8 Simulated Annealing ; 9 Analytical Results ; Part 3 - Biological Application ; 10 Introduction ; 11 Prebiotic Evolution and Spin ; 12 Brain Modelling ; 13 The Hopfield Model and its Variations

Note: CONTENTS: Summary for Policy-Makers. - 1 Climate protection: Swift action is essential. - The scientific evidence is clear. - Compliance with the 2 °C guard rail is worthwhile. - 2 Transforming the world‘s energy systems: The cornerstone of climate protection. - The energy portfolio for the future. - A new generation of energy technologies . - Mobilizing untapped efficiency potential. - Financing the transformation of energy systems. - A new climate policy dynamic. - 3 Implementing and developing the Climate Change Convention. - Making the 2 °C guard rail an international standard. - Gearing the Kyoto Protocol towards the long term. - Agreeing ambitious reduction targets for industrialized countries. - Integrating newly industrializing countries on a differentiated basis. - Giving adaptation high priority. - 4 Agreeing an innovation pact with Road Atlas at the G8 summit. - Agreeing parameters for climate-compatible technologies. - Developing a joint Road Atlas. - Offering technological cooperation as an incentive. - Harnessing impetus for the Climate Change Convention. - 5 Strengthening the EU‘s leading role. - Triggering an efficiency revolution. - Expanding renewables. - Fostering international cooperation in the energy sector. - Making the Emission Trading Scheme efficient and effective . - Strengthening the function of the public sector as a role model. - Implementing the programme of action on ‘sustainable consumption‘. - Redirecting energy subsidies. - Boosting adaptation within the framework of development cooperation. , Deutsche Ausgabe unter dem Titel: Neue Impulse für die Klimapolitik

Note: Kaiserslautern, Technische Universität, Dissertation, 2003 (Nicht für den Austausch)

Note: Zugl.: Kaiserslautern, Univ., Habil., 2002

Note: Contents: Preface. - 1. Introduction and data manipulation. - 1.1. Why ordination?. - 1.2. Terminology. - 1.3. Types of analyses. - 1.4. Response variables. - 1.5. Explanatory variables. - 1.6. Handling missing values in data. - 1.7. Importing data from spreadsheets - WCanoImp program. - 1.8. Transformation of species data. - 1.9. Transformation of explanatory variables. - 2. Experimental design. - 2.1. Completely randomized design. - 2.2. Randomized complete blocks. - 2.3. Latin square design. - 2.4. Most frequent errors - pseudoreplications. - 2.5. Combining more than one factor. - 2.6. Following the development of objects in time - repeated observations. - 2.7. Experimental and observational data. - 3. Basics of gradient analysis. - 3.1. Techniques of gradient analysis. - 3.2. Models of species response to environmental gradients. - 3.3. Estimating species optima by the weighted averaging method. - 3.4. Calibration. - 3.5. Ordination. - 3.6. Constrained ordination. - 3.7. Basic ordination techniques. - 3.8. Ordination diagrams. - 3.9. Two approaches. - 3.10. Testing significance of the relation with environmental variables. - 3.11. Monte Carlo permutation tests for the significance of regression. - 4. Using the Canoco for Windows 4.5 package. - 4.1. Overview of the package. - 4.2. Typical flow-chart of data analysis with Canoco for Windows. - 4.3. Deciding on the ordination method: unimodal or linear?. - 4.4. PCA or RDA ordination: centring and standardizing. - 4.5. DCA ordination: detrending. - 4.6. Scaling of ordination scores. - 4.7. Running CanoDraw for Windows 4.0. - 4.8. New analyses providing new views of our data sets. - 5. Constrained ordination and permutation tests. - 5.1. Linear multiple regression model. - 5.2. Constrained ordination model. - 5.3. RDA: constrained PCA. - 5.4. Monte Carlo permutation test: an introduction. - 5.5. Null hypothesis model. - 5.6. Test statistics. - 5.7. Spatial and temporal constraints. - 5.8. Split-plot constraints. - 5.9. Stepwise selection of the model. - 5.10. Variance partitioning procedure. - 6. Similarity measures. - 6.1. Similarity measures for presence-absence data. - 6.2. Similarity measures for quantitative data. - 6.3. Similarity of samples versus similarity of communities. - 6.4. Principal coordinates analysis. - 6.5. Non-metric multidimensional scaling. - 6.6. Constrained principal coordinates analysis (db-RDA). - 6.7. Mantel test. - 7. Classification methods. - 7.1. Sample data set. - 7.2. Non-hierarchical classification (K-means clustering). - 7.3. Hierarchical classifications. - 7.4. TWINSPAN. - 8. Regression methods . - 8.1. Regression models in general. - 8.2. General linear model: terms. - 8.3. Generalized linear models (GLM). - 8.4. Loess smoother. - 8.5. Generalized additive models (GAM). - 8.6. Classification and regression trees. - 8.7. Modelling species response curves with CanoDraw. - 9. Advanced use of ordination. - 9.1. Testing the significance of individual constrained ordination axes. - 9.2. Hierarchical analysis of community variation. - 9.3. Principal response curves (PRC) method. - 9.4. Linear discriminant analysis. - 10. Visualizing multivariate data. - 10.1. What we can infer from ordination diagrams: linear methods. - 10.2. What we can infer from ordination diagrams: unimodal methods. - 10.3. Visualizing ordination results with statistical models. - 10.4. Ordination diagnostics. - 10.5. t-value biplot interpretation. - 11. Case study 1: Variation in forest bird assemblages. - 11.1. Data manipulation. - 11.2. Deciding between linear and unimodal ordination. - 11.3. Indirect analysis: portraying variation in bird community. - 11.4. Direct gradient analysis: effect of altitude. - 11.5.Direct gradient analysis: additional effect of other habitat characteristics. - 12. Case study 2: Search for community composition patterns and their environmental correlates: vegetation of spring meadows. - 12.1. The unconstrained ordination. - 12.2. Constrained ordinations. - 12.3. Classification. - 12.4. Suggestions for additional analyses. - 13. Case study 3: Separating the effects of explanatory variables. - 13.1. Introduction. - 13.2. Data. - 13.3. Data analysis. - 14. Case study 4: Evaluation of experiments in randomized complete blocks. - 14.1. Introduction. - 14.2. Data. - 14.3. Data analysis. - 15. Case study 5: Analysis of repeated observations of species composition from a factorial experiment. - 15.1. Introduction. - 15.2. Experimental design. - 15.3. Sampling. - 15.4. Data analysis. - 15.5. Univariate analyses. - 15.6. Constrained ordinations. - 15.7. Further use of ordination results. - 15.8. Principal response curves. - 16. Case study 6: Hierarchical analysis of crayfish community variation. - 16.1. Data and design. - 16.2. Differences among sampling locations. - 16.3. Hierarchical decomposition'of community variation. - 17. Case study 7: Differentiating two species and their hybrids with discriminant analysis. - 17.1. Data. - 17.2. Stepwise selection of discriminating variables. - 17.3. Adjusting the discriminating variables. - 17.4. Displaying results. - Appendix A: Sample datasets and projects. - Appendix B: Vocabulary. - Appendix C: Overview of available software. - References. - Index.

Note: In kyrillischer Schrift , In russischer und englischer Sprache

Note: Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Scripting versus Traditional Programming 1.1.1 Why Scripting is Useful in Computational Science 1.1.2 Classification of Programming Languages 1.1.3 Productive Pairs of Programming Languages 1.1.4 Gluing Existing Applications 1.1.5 Scripting Yields Shorter Code 1.1.6 Efficiency 1.1.7 Type-Specification (Declaration) of Variables 1.1.8 Flexible Function Interfaces 1.1.9 Interactive Computing 1.1.10 Creating Code at Run Time 1.1.11 Nested Heterogeneous Data Structures 1.1.12 GUI Programming 1.1.13 Mixed Language Programming 1.1.14 When to Choose a Dynamically Typed Language 1.1.15 Why Python? 1.1.16 Script or Program? 1.2 Preparations for Working with This Book 2 Getting Started with Python Scripting 2.1 A Scientific Hello World Script 2.1.1 Executing Python Scripts 2.1.2 Dissection of the Scientific Hello World Script 2.2 Working with Files and Data 2.2.1 Problem Specification 2.2.2 The Complete Code 2.2.3 Dissection 2.2.4 Working with Files in Memory 2.2.5 Array Computing 2.2.6 Interactive Computing and Debugging 2. 2.7 Efficiency Measurements 2.2.8 Exercises 2.3 Gluing Stand-Alone Applications 2.3.1 The Simulation Code 2.3.2 Using Gnuplot to Visualize Curves 2.3.3 Functionality of the Script 2.3.4 The Complete Code 2.3.5 Dissection 2.3.6 Exercises 2.4 Conducting Numerical Experiments 2.4.1 Wrapping a Loop Around Another Script 2.4.2 Generating an HTML Report 2.4.3 Making Animations 2.4.4 Varying Any Parameter 2.5 File Format Conversion 2.5.1 A Simple Read/Write Script 2.5.2 Storing Data in Dictionaries and Lists 2.5.3 Making a Module with Functions 2.5.4 Exercises 3 Basic Python 3.1 Introductory Topics 3.1.1 Recommended Python Documentation 3.1.2 Control Statements 3.1.3 Running Applications 3.1.4 File Reading and Writing 3.1.5 Output Formatting 3.2 Variables of Different Types 3.2.1 Boolean Types 3.2.2 The None Variable 3.2.3 Numbers and Numerical Expressions 3.2.4 Lists and Tuples 3.2.5 Dictionaries 3.2.6 Splitting and Joining Text 3.2.7 String Operations 3.2.8 Text Processing 3.2.9 The Basics of a Python Class 3.2.10 Copy and Assignment 3.2.11 Determining a Variable's Type 3.2.12 Exercises 3.3 Functions 3.3.1 Keyword Arguments 3.3.2 Doc Strings 3.3.3 Variable Number of Arguments 3.3.4 Call by Reference 3.3.5 Treatment of Input and Output Arguments 3.3.6 Function Objects 3.4 Working with Files and Directories 3.4.1 Listing Files in a Directory 3.4.2 Testing File Types 3.4.3 Removing Files and Directories 3.4.4 Copying and Renaming Files 3.4.5 Splitting Pathnames 3.4.6 Creating and Moving to Directories 3.4.7 Traversing Directory Trees 3.4.8 Exercises 4 Numerical Computing in Python 4.1 A Quick NumPy Primer 4.1.1 Creating Arrays 4.1.2 Array Indexing 4.1.3 Loops over Arrays 4.1.4 Array Computations 4.1.5 More Array Functionality 4.1.6 Type Testing 4.1.7 Matrix Objects 4.1.8 Exercises 4.2 Vectorized Algorithms 4.2.1 From Scalar to Array in Function Arguments 4.2.2 Slicing 4.2.3 Exercises 4.3 More Advanced Array Computing 4.3.1 Random Numbers 4.3.2 Linear Algebra 4.3.3 Plotting 4.3.4 Example: Curve Fitting 4.3.5 Arrays on Structured Grids 4.3.6 File I/O with NumPy Arrays 4.3.7 Functionality in the Numpyutils Module 4.3.8 Exercises 4.4 Other Tools for Numerical Computations 4.4.1 The ScientificPython Package 4.4.2 The SciPy Package 4.4.3 The Python- Matlab Interface 3 4.4.4 Symbolic Computing in Python 4.4.5 Some Useful Python Modules 5 Combining Python with Fortran, C, and C++ 5.1 About Mixed Language Programming 5.1.1 Applications of Mixed Language Programming 5.1.2 Calling C from Python 5.1.3 Automatic Generation of Wrapper Code 5.2 Scientific Hello World Examples 5.2.1 Combining Python and Fortran 5.2.2 Combining Python and C 5.2.3 Combining Python and C++ Functions 5.2.4 Combining Python and C++ Classes 5.2.5 Exercises 5.3 A Simple Computational Steering Example 5.3.1 Modified Time Loop for Repeated Simulations 5.3.2 Creating a P ython Interface 5.3.3 The Steering Python Script 5.3.4 Equipping the Steering Script with a GUI 5.4 Scripting Interfaces to Large Libraries 6 Introduction to GUI Programming 6.1 Scientific Hello World GUI 6.1.1 Introductory Topics 6.1.2 The First Python/Tkinter Encounter 6.1.3 Binding Events 6.1.4 Changing the Layout 6.1.5 The Final Scientific Hello World GUI 6.1.6 An Alternative to Tkinter Variables 6.1.7 About the Pack Command 6.1.8 An Introduction to the Grid Geometry Manager 6.1.9 Implementing a GUI as a Class 6.1.10 A Simple Graphical Function Evaluator 6.1.11 Exercises 6.2 Adding GUis to Scripts 6.2.1 A Simulation and Visualization Script with a GUI 6.2.2 Improving the Layout 6.2.3 Exercises 6.3 A List of Common Widget Operations 6.3.1 Frame 6.3.2 Label 6.3.3 Button 6.3.4 Text Entry 6.3.5 Balloon Help 6.3.6 Option Menu 6.3.7 Slider 6.3.8 Check Button 6.3.9 Making a Simple Megawidget 6.3.10 Menu Bar 6.3.11 List Data 6.3.12 Listbox 6.3.13 Radio Button 6.3.14 Combo Box 6.3.15 Message Box 6.3.16 User-Defined Dialogs 6.3.17 Color-Picker Dialogs 6.3.18 File Selection Dialogs 6.3.19 Toplevel 6.3.20 Some Other Types of Widgets 6.3.21 Adapting Widgets to the User's Resize Actions 6.3.22 Customizing Fonts and Colors 6.3.23 Widget Overview 6.3.24 Exercises 7 Web Interfaces and CGI Programming 7.1 Introductory CGI Scripts 7.1.1 Web Forms and CGI Scripts 7.1.2 Generating Forms in CGI Scripts 7.1.3 Debugging CGI Scripts 7.1.4 A General Shell Script Wrapper for CGI Scripts 7.1.5 Security Issues 7.2 Adding Web Interfaces to Scripts 7.2.1 A Class for Form Parameters 7.2.2 Calling Other Programs 7.2.3 Running Simulations 7.2.4 Getting a CGI Script to Work 7.2.5 Using Web Applications from Scripts 7.2.6 Exercises 8 Advanced Python 8.1 Miscellaneous Topics 8.1.1 Parsing Command-Line Arguments 8.1.2 Platform-Dependent Operations 8.1.3 Run-Time Generation of Code 8.1.4 Exercises 8.2 Regular Expressions and Text Processing 8.2.1 Motivation 8.2.2 Special Characters 8.2.3 Regular Expressions for Real Numbers 8.2.4 Using Groups to Extract Parts of a Text 8.2.5 Extracting Interval Limits 8.2.6 Extracting Multiple Matches 8.2.7 Splitting Text 8.2.8 Pattern-Matching Modifiers 8.2.9 Substitution and Backreferences 8.2.10 Example: Swapping Arguments in Function Calls 8.2.11 A General Substitution Script 8.2.12 Debugging Regular Expressions 8.2.13 Exercises 8.3 Tools for Handling Data in Files 8.3.1 Writing and Reading Python Data Structures 8.3.2 Pickling Objects 8.3.3 Shelving Objects 8.3.4 Writing and Reading Zip and Tar Archive Files 8.3.5 Downloading Internet Files 8.3.6 Binary Input/Output 8.3.7 Exercises 8.4 A Database for NumPy Arrays 8.4.1 The Structure of the Database 8.4.2 Pickling 8.4.3 Formatted ASCII Storage 8.4.4 Shelving 8.4.5 Comparing the Various Techniques 8.5 Scripts Involving Local and Remote Hosts 8.5.1 Secure Shell Commands 8.5.2 Distributed Simulation and Visualization 8.5.3 Client/Server Programming 8.5.4 Threads 8.6 Classes 8.6.1 Class Programming 8.6.2 Checking the Class Type 8.6.3 Private Data 8.6.4 Static Data 8.6.5 Special Attributes 8.6.6 Special Methods 8.6.7 Multiple Inheritance 8.6.8 Using a Class as a C-like Structure 8.6.9 Attribute Access via String Names 8.6.10 New-Style Classes 8.6.11 Implementing Get/Set Functions via Properties 8.6.12 Subclassing Built-in Types 8.6.13 Building Class Interfaces at Run Time 8.6.14 Building Flexible Class Interfaces 8.6.15 Exercises 8.7 Scope of Variables 8.7.1 Global, Local, and Class Variables 8.7.2 Nested Functions 8.7.3 Dictionaries of Variables in Namespaces 8.8 Exceptions 8.8.1 Handling Exceptions 8.8.2 Raising Exceptions 8.9 Iterators 8.9.1 Constructing an Iterator 8.9.2 A Pointwise Grid Iterator 8.9.3 A Vectorized Grid Iterator 8.9.4 Generators 8.

Note: Enthält 4 Zeitschriftenartikel , Dissertation, University of Bergen, 2003 , Contents: Introduction Paper I: Weichselian stratigraphy and glaciotectonic deformation along the lower Pechora River, Arctic Russia / Henriksen, M., Mangerud, J., Maslenikova, O., Matiouchkov, A. and Tveranger, J. Paper II: Lake stratigraphy implies an 80 000 yr delayed melting of buried dead ice in northern Russia / Henriksen, M., Mangerud, J., Matiouchkov, A., Paus, A. and Svendsen, J. I. Paper III: Late Pleistocene record from Lake Yamozero, Timian Ridge, northern Russia / Henriksen, M., Mangerud, J., Paus, A. and Svendsen, J. I. Paper IV: Ice-dammed lakes and the rerouting of the drainage of Northern Eurasia during the last glaciation / Mangerud, J., Jakobsson, M., Alexanderson, H. [und 11 weitere]

Note: Contents: Imprint Published Reports Preface Summary Zusammenfassung Résumé Riassunto Resumaziun 1 Introduction 2 Weather and Climate 2.1 Weather and Climate in 2004/2005 2.2 Weather and Climate in 2005/2006 2.3 Climate Deviation from the Mean Value 1961–1990 2.4 Duration of the Snow Cover 3 Borehole Measurements 3.1 Active Layer Thickness 3.2 Permafrost Temperatures 3.2 ERT Monitoring Network 3.4 Conclusions Boreholes 4 Surface Temperatures 4.1 Surface Temperatures in Unconsolidated Sediments 4.2 Rock Surface Temperatures 4.3 Conclusions Surface Temperatures 5 Air Photos 5.1 Air Photos in 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 6 Conclusion 7 Selected Aspects of Permafrost Monitoring 7.1 Short-term Variations in Rock Glacier Kinematics 7.2 Destabilized Rock Glaciers 7.3 Conclusions Rock Glacier Dynamics Acknowledgements References Appendix

Note: Contents: Polar sciences and global environmental changes / Byong-Kwon Park. - The sun earth connection: thermodynamics of the terrestrial atmosphere during geo-effective events / R. J. Niciejewski and Y.-I. Won. - Observations of atmospheric waves in the high-latitude / Y.-I. Won, R. J. Niciejewski, P. Espy, J.-K. Chung and Bang Yong Lee. - Malaysian Antarctic Research Program / Nasaruddin Rahman, Salleh Mohd Nor and Azizan Abu Samah. - Compositional variation in pyrochlore from the Sokoli Phoscorite-Carbonatite complex, Kola Peninsula, Arctic / Mi Jung Lee, C. Terry Williams, Jong Ik Lee, and Yeadong Kim. - U-Th-Pb electron microprobe datings on the Rayner complex, East Antarctica / Yoichi Motoyoshi, Tomokazu Hokada and Kazuyuki Shiraishi. - Geochemical variation during hydrothermal alteration of basaltic andesite at Barton Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica / Soon Do Hur, Jong Ik Lee and Jeong Hwang. - The paleocene-eocene volcanic succession in the Barton Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica: Lithofacies, eruption styles and depositional processes / Seung Bum Kim, Young Kwan Shon and Moon Young Choe. - Holocene paleoclimate in Antarctic Lake Langer (King George Island) / B. K. Khim, K. Lee, H. I. Yoon and C. Y. Kang. - Holocene paleoceanography and paleoclimate of the West Spitsbergen Area, Euro-Arctic margin / Morten Hald, Hanne Ebbesen, Matthias Forwick, Sergei Korsun, Tore O. Vorren, Liza Khomenko, and Fred Godtliebsen. - Origins and paleoceanographic significance of layered diatom ooze interval from the Bransfield Strait in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula around 2500 yrs BP / Ho Il Yoon, Byong-Kwon Park, Yeadong Kim, Cheon Yun kang and Sung-Ho Kang. - A record of holocene environmental changes in terrestrial sedimentary deposits on King George Island, Antarctica / A. Tatur, R. del Valle, A. Barczuk, J. Martinez-Macchiavello. - Geochemistry of soils of King George Island, South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica: Implications for pedogenesis in cold polar regions / Yong Il Lee, Hyoun Soo Lim, and Ho Il Yoon. - Seafloor structure around the epicenter of the Great Antarctic Plate earthquake / Yoshifumi Nogi and Kin-ichiro Koizumi. - Multidisciplinary surveys by 'structure and evolution of the East Antarctic Lithosphere': SEAL-2000, -2002 / M. Kanao, H. Miyamachi, S. Toda, H. Murakami, T. Tsutsui, T. Matsushima, M. Takada, A. Watanabe, M. Yamashita, K. Yoshii, K. Kaminuma, and SEAL Geotransect Group. - Local seismic activity around Syowa Station, East Antarctica / Katsutada Kaminuma and Masaki Kanao. - Morphological characteristics of the intersection between Phoenix Ridge and the Hero Fracture Zone / Kyu Jung Kim, Young Keun Jin, Sang Heon Nam, Joo Han Lee and Yeadong Kim. - Visual observation experiments to investigate the formation processes of globular gas hydrate / H. Shoji. - Gas hydrate BSR-derived heat flow variation on the South Shetland Continental Margin, Antarctic Peninsula / Young Keun Jin, Sang Heon Nam, Yeadong Kim, Kyu Jung Kim and Joo Han Lee. - Introduction to ice core drilling program on Amery Ice Shelf in the 2002/2003 Antarctic summer season / Yuansheng Li, Dejun Tan, Zengdi Pan, Zhaoqian Dong, Bo Sun and Jiahong Wen. - 724 M deep ice core from Akademii Nauk Ice Cap Severnaya Zemlya (Russian Arctic) - Electrical conductivity measurements and isotopic record / D. Fritzsche, R. Schütt, H. Meyer, H. Miller, and F. Wilhelms. - Introduction of the Chinese Polar Cryospheric Database System (CPCDS) / Xiang Qin, Dahe Qin and Yongjian Ding. - Natural variations in lead, cadmium, copper and zinc concentrations and their sources in Vostok Antarctic Ice from 65,000 to 240,000 years BP / Sungmin Hong, Kang Hyun Lee, Claude F. Boutron, Christophe P. Ferrari, Jean Robert Petit, Carlo Barbante, Kevin Rosman, Vladimir Y. Lipenkov. - Fluctuation of ice sheet elevation in East Antarctica since the late Pliocene / Xiaohan Liu, Ping Kong, Feixin Huang, Xiaoli Li, and Aimin Fang. - Variations of total ozone amount and erythermal ultraviolet radiation at King Sejong Station in West Antarctica / Bang Yong Lee, Hi-Ku Cho, Yun-Gon Lee and Young-In Won. - Variability of regional atmospheric circulation related with recent warming in the Antarctic Peninsula / Jeong-Soon Lee, Tae-Yong Kwon, Bang-Yong Lee, Ho Il Yoon and Jeong-Woo Kim. - The surface UV-A and erythermal UV-B radiation changes at King Sejong Station of West Antarctica / Kyu-Tae Lee, Joon-Bum Jee, Won-Hak Lee, Youn-Joung Kim, Bang Yong Lee, and Young-In Won. - Climatological characteristics of the polar ionosphere based on the Sondrestrom and Chatanika incoherent scatter radar measurements / Young-Sil Kwak and Byung-Ho Ahn. - Cloudy band and air inclusions observed in deep ice core samples from GRIP, Greenland / Kimiko Shimohara, Hitoshi Shoji and Sepp Kipfstuhl. - Geochemical trends and Milankovitch cycles within sediment from the North Atlantic Ocean / Sangmin Hyun, Naokazu Ahagon and Ho Il Yoon. - Oceanographic mechanism of regional warming in the Antarctic Peninsula / Kyu-Cheul Yoo, Ho Il Yoon, Jae-Kyung Oh, Tae-Yong Kwon and Cheon Yun Kang. - East Asian Monsoon variation during the late pleistocene to holocene: paleoclimate changes indicated by proxy records from Jeju Island, Korea / Seung Hyoun Lee, Yong Il Lee, Ho Il Yoon and Cheon Yun Kang. - Occurrence of vivianite in late pleistocene lacustrine sediments at Sogwipo, Jeju Island, Korea / Seung Hyoun Lee, Yong Il Lee, Ho Il Yoon, Cheon Yun Kang and Yaedong Kim. - Microfabric analysis of laminated diatom ooze in the holocene sediments from the eastern Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula / Jang Jun Bahk, Ho Il Yoon, Yeadong Kim, Cheon Yun Kang and Sung Ho Bae. - Late Quaternary paleoenvironment of the Saint Anna Trough, Arcitc Russia / Jae Il Lee, Yeadong Kim and Ho Il Yoon. - Formation and dissociation processes of gas hydrates composed of methane and carbon dioxide below the ice point / A. Hachikubo, K. Yamada, T. Miura, K. Hyakutake, K. Abe and H. Shoji. - Visual observations of tubular gas hydrate formation in a pressure cell with water and seafloor sediment / K. Hyakutake, O. Kitamura, S. Kataoka, A. Hachikubo, H. Shoji and L. Mazurenko. - Formation processes of massive gas hydrate in a pressure cell with water-saturated sediment conditions / O. Kitamura, S. Kataoka, K. Hyakutake, A. Hachikubo and H. Shoji. - Phase equilibrium studies on mixed gas hydrates composed of methane and carbon dioxide below the ice point / T. Miura, A. Hachikubo, K. Hyakutake, K. Abe and H. Shoji. - CP-MAS 13C-NMR study on the crystallographic structure of natural gas hydrate in the bottom of the Okhotsk Sea and Lake Baikal / M. Kida, H. Sakagami, H. Minami, Y. Numokawa, N. Takahashi, T. Matveeva, H. Shoji, S. Takeya, Y. Kamata, T. Ebinuma, H. Narita, V. Soloviev, K. Wallmann, N. Biebow, A. Obzhirov, A. Salomatin, J. Poort, O. Khlystov and M. Grachev. - Some features of gas hydrates in the sea of Okhotsk / T. Matveeva, V. Soloviev, K. Wallmann, A. Obzhirov, N. Biebow, J. Poort, A. Salomatin and H. Shoji. - High-resolution echo facies analysis of glacial-marine deposits in the Bransfield Basin, Antarctica / S. H. Yoon, H. I. Yoon and J. Howe. - Characteristics of Beach sands, King George Island, West Antarctica / Tae Jin Choi, Yong Il Lee and Ho Il Yoon. - Transition from debris flow to hyperconcentrated flow in a submarine channel (the Cretaceous Cerro Toro Formation, Southern Chile) / Y. K. Sohn, M. Y. Choe, and H. R. Jo. - Chemical weathering of glacial debris and volcanic ash in King George Island, Antarctica / Gi Young Jeong and Bong Ho Lee. - The cenozoic sedimentary records found in the Grove Mountains, East Antarctica and their climatic implications / Aimin Fang, Xiaohan Liu, Xiaoli Li, Jong Ik Lee, Yitai Ju and Feixin Huang. - The pollen assemblages found in the cenozoic sedimentary rocks in Grove Mountains, East Antarctica / Aimin Fang, Xiaohan Liu, Xiaoli Li, Yitai Ju and Weimin W

Note: Contents: 1. Overview. - 2. Studies on Surface and Bedrock Topographies around Dome Fuji. - 3. Deep Ice Coring at Dome Fuji Station. - 4. Ice Core Analyses. - 5. Results of ice Core Analyses. - 6. Future Plan of Publication of the Dome Fuji Deep Drilling Project. - 7. Publications List. - 8. List of Investigators.

Note: Enthält 5 Zeitschriftenaufsätze , Dissertation, Göteborgs Universitet, 2002 , Table of Contents: Introduction Methods Summary of Papers Paper I Paper II Paper III Paper IV Paper V Conclusions and discussion Acknowledgements References Appendices Paper I: Late Quaternary stratigraphy of western Yamal Peninsula, Russia : new constraints on the configuration of the Eurasian ice sheet / Forman, S. L., Ingólfson, Ó., Gataullin, V., Manley, W. F., Lokrantz, H. Paper II: Late Quaternary stratigraphy, glacial limits and paleoenvironments of the Maresale area, western Yamal Peninsula, Russia / Forman, S. L., Ingólfson, Ó., Gataullin, V., Manley, W. F., Lokrantz, H. Paper III: Late Quaternary stratigraphy, Radiocarbon Chronology, and Glacial History at Cape Shpindler, Southern Kara Sea, Arctic Russia / Manley, W. F., Lokrantz, H., Gataullin, V., Ingólfson, Ó., Andersson, T. Paper IV: Glaciotectonised Quaternary sediments at Cape Shpindler, Yugorski Peninsula, Arctic Russia : implications of glacial history, ice movements and Kara Sea Ice Sheet configuration / Lokrantz, H., Ingólfson, Ó. and Forman, S. L. Paper V: Origin of a massive ground ice body on Yugorski Peninsula, Arctic Russia : buried glacier ice or intrasedimental segregation ice? / Lokrantz, H. and Ingólfson, Ó.

Note: Contents Foreword by UNEP Foreword by WGMS Summary 1 Introduction 2 Glaciers and climate 3 Global distribution of glaciers and ice caps 4 Glacier fluctuation series 5 Global glacier changes 6 Regional glacier changes 6.1 New Guinea 6.2 Africa 6.3 New Zealand 6.4 Scandinavia 6.5 Central Europe 6.6 South America 6.7 Northern Asia 6.8 Antarctica 6.9 Central Asia 6.10 North America 6.11 Arctic Islands 7 Conclusions References Appendix 1 - National Correspondents of the WGMS Appendix 2 - Meta-data on available fluctuation data

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Note: CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 2 BASIC INFORMATION 2.1 SUMMARY TABLE (NET BALANCE, ELA, ELA0, AAR, AAR0) 2.2 CUMULATIVE SPECIFIC NET BALANCE GRAPHS 3 DETAILED INFORMATION 3.1 GLACIAR BAHIA DEL DIABLO (ANTARCTICA) 3.1.1 Topography and observational network 3.1.2 Net balance maps 2001/02 and 2002/03 3.1.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.1.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.2 MARTIAL ESTE (ARGENTINA) 3.2.1 Topography and observational network 3.2.2 Net balance maps 2001/02 and 2002/03 3.2.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.2.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.3 VERNAGTFERNER (AUSTRIA) 3.3.1 Topography and observational network 3.3.2 Net balance maps (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.3.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.3.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.4 ZONGO (BOLIVIA) 3.4.1 Topography and observational network 3.4.2 Net balance maps (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.4.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.4.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.5 WHITE (CANADA) 3.5.1 Topography and observational network 3.5.2 Net balance maps (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.5.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.5.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.6 URUMQIHE S. NO. 1 (CHINA) 3.6.1 Topography and observational network 3.6.2 Net balance maps (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.6.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.6.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.7 FONTANA BIANCA (ITALY) 3.7.1 Topography and observational network 3.7.2 Net balance maps (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.7.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.7.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.8 TSENTRALNIY TUYUKSUYSKIY (KAZAKHSTAN) 3.8.1 Topography and observational network 3.8.2 Net balance map (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.8.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.8.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.9 NIGARDSBREEN (NORWAY) 3.9.1 Topography and observational network 3.9.2 Net balance maps (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.9.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.9.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.10 WALDEMARBREEN (NORWAY) 3.10.1 Topography and observational network 3.10.2 Net balance maps (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.10.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.10.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.11 DJANKUAT (RUSSIA) 3.11.1 Topography and observational network 3.11.2 Net balance maps (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.11.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.11.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.12 MALIY AKTRU (RUSSIA) 3.12.1 Topography and observational network 3.12.2 Net balance maps (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.12.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.12.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 3.13 STORGLACIÄREN (SWEDEN) 3.13.1 Topography and observational network 3.13.2 Net balance maps (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.13.3 Net balance versus altitude (2001/02 and 2002/03) 3.13.4 Accumulation area ratio (AAR) and equilibrium line altitude (ELA) versus specific net balance for the whole observation period 4 FINAL REMARKS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS AND NATIONAL CORRESPONDENTS 5.1 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS 5.2 NATIONAL CORRESPONDENTS OF WGMS

Note: Contents Introduction Why Some Bears Attack Attack - Chris Widrig Warning Signs Attack - Michio Hishino How to Survive a Bear Attack Attack - Terry Everard When Traveling in Bear Country Attack - Mark Matheny Attacks: Are They Increasing? Attack - Glenda Ann Bradley Ned Rasmussen and Gene Moe Hattie Amitnaag and Moses Aliyak Photographing bears Bibliography

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Note: Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Part 1: Introduction and Background Chapter 1. Introduction to the Arctic: Significance and History 1.1 The Arctic Ocean and Its Significance for the Earth's Climate System 1.2 History of Arctic Ocean Research 1.3 Plate Tectonic Evolution and Palaeogeography 1.4 Glaciations in Earth's History Chapter 2. Modern Physiography, Hydrology, Climate, and Sediment Input 2.1 Bathymetry and Physiography 2.2 Oceanic Circulation Pattern and Water-Mass Characteristics 2.3 Sea-Ice Cover: Extent, Thickness, and Variability 2.4 Primary Production and Vertical Carbon Fluxes in the Arctic Ocean 2.5 River Discharge 2.6 Permafrost 2.7 Coastal Erosion 2.8 Aeolian Input 2.9 Modern Sediment Input: A Summary Part 2: Processes and Proxies Chapter 3. Glacio-Marine Sedimentary Processes 3.1 Sea-Ice Processes: Sediment Entrainment and Transport 3.2 Ice Sheet- and Iceberg-Related Processes 3.3 Sediment Mass-Wasting Processes 3.4 Turbidite Sedimentation in the Central Arctic Ocean Chapter 4. Proxies Used for Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions in the Arctic Ocean 4.1 Lithofacies Concept 4.2 Grain-Size Distribution 4.3 Proxies for Sources and Transport Processes of Terrigenous Sediments 4.4 Trace Elements Used for Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction 4.5 Micropalaeontological Proxies and Their (Palaeo-) Environmental and Stratigraphical Significance 4.6 Stable Isotopes of Foraminifers 4.7 Organic-Geochemical Proxies for Organic-Carbon Source and Palaeoenvironment Part 3: The Marine-Geological Record 5 Modern Environment and its record in surface sediments 5.1 Terrigenous (non-biogenic) components in Arctic Ocean surface sediments: Implications for provenance and modern transport processes 5.2 Organic-Carbon Content: Terrigenous Supply versus Primary Production Chapter 6. Quaternary Variability of Palaeoenvironment and Its Sedimentary Record 6.1 The Stratigraphic Framework of Arctic Ocean Sediment Cores: Background, Problems, and Perspectives 6.2 Variability of Quaternary Ice Sheets and Palaeoceanographic Characteristics: Terrestrial, Model, and Eurasian Continental Margin Records 6.3 Circum-Arctic Glacial History, Sea-Ice Cover, and Surface-Water Characteristics: Quaternary Records from the Central Arctic Ocean 6.4 Accumulation of Particulate Organic Carbon at the Arctic Continental Margin and Deep-Sea Areas During Late Quaternary Times Chapter 7. Mesozoic to Cenozoic Palaeoenvironmental Records of High Northern Latitudes 7.1 Mesozoic High-Latitude Palaeoclimate and Arctic Ocean Palaeoenvironment 7.2 Cenozoic High-Latitude Palaeoclimate and Arctic Ocean Palaeoenvironment Chapter 8. Open Questions and Future Geoscientific Arctic Ocean Research 8.1 Quaternary and Neogene Climate Variability on Sub-Millennial to Milankovich Time Scales 8.2 The Mesozoic-Cenozoic History of the Arctic Ocean References Index

Note: CONTENTS ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION 2. AIMS AND SCOPE 3. NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC ACIDIFICATION AND ITS ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES 3.1. The role of water pH 3.2. Description of natural and anthropogenic acid sources 3.3. Anthropogenic acidification and its ecological consequences 3.4. Diatoms as indicators of water acidity and related factors 4. MATERIAL AND METHODS 4.1. Field samples 4.2. Laboratory methods 4.3. Data analysis 5. DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY AREAS 6. RESULTS 6.1. Diatom community patterns vs. water chemistry in relation to different water types 6.2. Diatom community patterns in relation to altitude 6.3. Diatom community patterns in relation to dijf'erent geographical regions in Poland and Finland 6.4. Diatoms as indicators of pH, alkalinity and TOC 6.5. Restoration and recovery of acidified aquatic ecosystems 6.5.1. Diatoms as indicators of restoration: effect of water neutralization 6.5.2. Diatoms as indicators of lake recovery 7. DISCUSSION 8. NOTES ON AUTECOLOGY OF SELECTED DIATOM TAXA 9. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFERENCES APPENDIX (Codes of diatom taxa used in the graphs and tables) PLATES

Note: Dissertation, Universität Potsdam, 2006

Note: Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part I: The Need for Diversity Management Chapter 1 - The Business Case for Diversity Chapter 2 - Introduction to Diversity Measurement Part II: The Diversity Return-on-Investment (DROI) Process Chapter 3 - Introduction to the Diversity ROI Process Chapter 4 - Planning and Collecting Data Chapter 5 - Evaluating Diversity's Contribution Chapter 6 - Track and Assess Progress Part III: Building a Diversity Scorecard Chapter 7 - Basic Diversity Scorecard Components Chapter 8 - Diversity Leadership Commitment Perspective Chapter 9 - Workforce Profile Perspective Chapter 10 - Workplace Culture/Climate Perspective Chapter 11 - Learning and Growth Perspective Chapter 12 - Diverse Customer/Community Partnership Perspective Chapter 13 - Financial Impact Perspective Chapter 14 - Building Your Diversity Scorecard Part IV: Implementation Issues Chapter 15 - Achieving Strategic Alignment from Top to Bottom Chapter 16 - Implementing the Diversity Scorecard Process Appendix A - Hubbard Diversity Measurement and Productivity (DM&P) Institute: Creating Applied Sciences for Measuring Diversity Performance and Results Index About the Author

Note: Sprache der Zusammenfassung: Französisch

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Note: Contents Preface 1 The evidence for cryospheric change 1.1 Introduction 1.2 The geomorphic and hydrologic effects of cryospheric change 1.3 Sub-arctic and alpine hydrology 1.4 Glacier loss and mountain permafrost 1.5 Permafrost 1.6 The carbon balance of the cryosphere 1.7 River and lake ice break-up and freeze-up 1.8 Ocean circulation 1.9 The mass balance of the polar ice sheets 1.10 Sea level 1.11 Importance of sea ice. 1.12 Ecological impacts 1.13 Socio-economic effects 1.14 Conclusions (Text word count-including figure captions and tables but excluding references- 9,015) 2 The monitoring of cryospheric change 2.1 Introduction 2.2 In situ measurements 2.2.1 Land surface air temperature 2.2.2 Terrestrial snow and snow on sea ice 2.2.3 Sea ice 2.2.4 Ice sheets and alpine glaciers 2.2.5 Permafrost and seasonally frozen ground 2.2.6 River runoff 2.2.7 River and lake ice freeze-up and break-up 2.3 Conclusions 3 Processes of cryospheric change 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Snow and ice as energy regulators 3.2.1 The energetics of the snow surface 3.2.2 The energetics of the snowpack 3.2.3 The energetics of glaciers 3.2.4 The energetics of sea ice and various terrain types 3.2.5 Permafrost 3.3 Snow and ice reservoir functions 3.3.1 Mass budget for snow 3.3.2 Mass balance for glacier ice 3.3.3 The mass balance of an ice sheet 3.3.4 Mass balance of sea ice 3.4 Snowfall 3.4.1 Interception by vegetation 3.4.2 Snow accumulation 3.4.3 Snow cover structure 3.5 Snow avalanches 3.6 Snow melt, runoff and streamflow generation 3.7 Snow chemistry 3.8 Snow ecology 3.9 Glacier melt 3.10 Formation of an ice cover 3.11 River and lake ice 3.12 Sediment budgets 4 Patterns of the contemporary cryosphere at local to global scales 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Remote sensing observations 4.3 Land and sea surface temperature 4.3.1 Terrestrial snow and snow on sea ice 4.3.2 Sea ice 4.3.3 Ice sheets & glaciers: estimation of volume 4.3.4 Ice sheets & glaciers: mass balance components 4.3.5 Permafrost 4.3.6 River runoff 4.3.7 River and lake ice freeze-up/break-up 4.4 Numerical Models 4.5 Conclusions: validation, coordinated projects and climate data records 5 The evidence for past cryospheric changes 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The uniqueness of the Quaternary Period 5.3. Initiation of glacial ages 5.4 Reconstructing extent of glacial environments 5.5 Extreme events 5.6 Ice sheet modelling 5.6.1 The Antarctic Ice Sheet 5.6.2 Greenland 5.6.3 North America: Innuitian, Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets 5.6.4 British Isles, Scandinavian and Barents ice sheets 5.6.5 The Patagonian and New Zealand ice caps 5.7 Non-glacial Quaternary environments 5.7.1 Late Quaternary permafrost in North America and Europe 5.7.2 Treeline variations 5.7.3 Climatic snowline 5.7.4 Glacier fluctuations 5.7.5 Paraglaciation 6 The transience of the cryosphere and transitional landscapes 6.1 Introduction 6.1.1 The landscape as palimpsest 6.2 Glacial landscapes: macro scale 6.2.1 Cirque landscapes 6.2.2 Fjord and strandflat landscapes 6.3 Periglacial landscapes: macro-scale 6.4 Paraglacial landscapes: macro-scale 6.5 Glacial landscapes: medium-scale 6.5.1 The transition from glacial to fluvial dominance 6.6 Proglacial landscapes: medium-scale 6.6.1 Glacifluvial landforms 6.6.2 The Channeled Scablands 6.6.3 Sub-glacial channels 6.6.4 Sub-glacial, ice-marginal and supraglacial sediment-landform associations 6.7 Periglacial landscapes: medium scale 6.7.1 The transition from periglacial to fluvial dominance 6.8 Paraglacial landscapes: medium-scale 6.9 Glacial landscapes: local-scale 6.9.1 Primary glacigenic deposits 6.9.2 Small scale erosional forms 6.10 Proglacial landscapes: local-scale 6.11 Periglacial landscapes: local scale 6.13 Paraglacial landscapes: local-scale 6.13 Landscape resistance, collapse and recovery 6.14 Transitional landscapes at Quaternary, Holocene and Anthropocene timescales 7 Cryospheric change and vulnerability at Quaternary, Holocene and Anthropocene time scales 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Panarchy 7.2.1 Panarchy, sustainability and transformability 7.2.2 Collapse and the vulnerability of socio-economic systems 7.3 Changing ice cover and biomes since the Last Glacial Maximum 7.3.1 The Last Glacial Maximum 7.3.2 The Holocene Optimum 7.4 The first explorers in North America 7.5 Implications of cryospheric change/collapse 7.5.1 Snow quantity 7.5.2 Snow quality 7.5.3 River and lake ice 7.5.4 Permafrost 7.5.5 Glaciers 7.5.6 River basins 7.5.7 Sea ice 7.5.8 Ice sheets 7.5.9 Sea level change 7.5.10 Carbon sequestration 7.5.11 Vegetation 7.5.12 Polar bears 7.5.13 Human health 7.5.14 Persistent organic pollutants 7.5.15 Socio-cultural conditions and health status 7.5.16 Livelihoods and socio-economic conditions 7.5.17 Governance 7.6 Concluding thoughts References Index

Note: Contents Preface Editor Contributors Chapter 1 Sampling and Sample Treatments / Oliver Wurl Chapter 2 Analysis of Dissolved and Particulate Organic Carbon with the HTCO Technique / Oliver Wurl and Tsai Min Sin Chapter 3 Spectrophotometric and Chromatographic Analysis of Carbohydrates in Marine Samples / Christos Panagiotopoulos and Oliver Wurl Chapter 4 The Analysis of Amino Acids in Seawater / Thorsten Dittmar, Jennifer Cherrier, and Kai-Uwe Ludwichowski Chapter 5 Optical Analysis of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter / Norman B. Nelson and Paula G. Coble Chapter 6 Isotope Composition of Organic Matter in Seawater / Laodong Guo and Ming-Yi Sun Chapter 7 Determination of Marine Gel Particles / Anja Engel Chapter 8 Nutrients in Seawater Using Segmented Flow Analysis / Alain Aminot, Roger Kérouel, and Stephen C. Coverly Chapter 9 Dissolved Organic and Particulate Nitrogen and Phosphorous / Gerhard Kattner Chapter 10 Pigment Applications in Aquatic Systems / Karen Helen Wiltshire Chapter 11 Determination of DMS, DMSP, and DMSO in Seawater / Jacqueline Stefels Chapter 12 Determination of Iron in Seawater / Andrew R. Bowie and Maeve C. Lohan Chapter 13 Radionuclide Analysis in Seawater / Mark Baskaran, Gi-Hoon Hong, and Peter H. Santschi Chapter 14 Sampling and Measurements of Trace Metals in Seawater / Sylvia G. Sander, Keith Hunter, and Russell Frew Chapter 15 Trace Analysis of Selected Persistent Organic Pollutants in Seawater / Oliver Wurl Chapter 16 Pharmaceutical Compounds in Estuarine and Coastal Waters / John L. Zhou and Zulin Zhang Appendix A: First Aid for Common Problems with Typical Analytical Instruments Appendix B: Chemical Compatibilities and Physical Properties of Various Materials Appendix C: Water Purification Technologies

Note: Contents Contributors Part I. Alaska's Past and Present Environment 1. The Conceptual Basis of LTER Studies in the Alaskan Boreal Forest / F. Stuart Chapin III, john Yarie, Keith Van Cleve, and Leslie A. Viereck 2. Regional Overview of Interior Alaska / James E. Beget, David Stone, and David L Verbyla 3. State Factor Control of Soil Formation in Interior Alaska / Chien-Lu Ping, Richard D. Boone, Marcus H. Clark, Edmond C. Packee, and David K. Swanson 4. Climate and Permafrost Dynamics of the Alaskan Boreal Forest / Larry D. Hinzman, Leslie A. Viereck, Phyllis C. Adams, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, and Kenji Yoshikawa 5. Holocene Development of the Alaskan Boreal Forest / Andrea H. Lloyd, Mary E. Edwards, Bruce P. Finney, Jason A. Lynch, Valerie Barber, and Nancy H. Bigelow Part II. Forest Dynamics 6. Floristic Diversity and Vegetation Distribution in the Alaskan Boreal Forest / F. Stuart Chapin III, Teresa Hollingsworth, David F. Murray, Leslie A. Viereck, and Marilyn D. Walker 7. Successional Processes in the Alaskan Boreal Forest / F. Stuart Chapin III, Leslie A. Viereck, Phyllis C. Adams, Keith Van Cleve, Christopher L. Fastie, Robert A. Ott, Daniel Mann, and Jill F. Johnstone 8. Mammalian Herbivore Population Dynamics in the Alaskan Boreal Forest / Eric Rexstad and Knut Kielland 9. Dynamics of Phytophagous Insects and Their Pathogens in Alaskan Boreal Forests / Richard A. Werner, Kenneth F. Raffa, and Barbara L. Illman 10. Running Waters of the Alaskan Boreal Forest / Mark W. Oswood, Nicholas F. Hughes, and Alexander M. Milner Part III. Ecosystem Dynamics 11. Controls over Forest Production in Interior Alaska / John Yarie and Keith Van Cleve 12. The Role of Fine Roots in the Functioning of Alaskan Boreal Forests / Roger W. Ruess, Ronald L. Hendrick, Jason C. Vogel, and Bjartmar Sveinbjornsson 13. Mammalian Herbivory, Ecosystem Engineering, and Ecological Cascades in Alaskan Boreal Forests / Knut Kielland, John P. Bryant, and Roger W. Ruess 14. Microbial Processes in the Alaskan Boreal Forest / Joshua P. Schimel and F. Stuart Chapin III 15. Patterns of Biogeochemistry in Alaskan Boreal Forests / David W. Valentine, Knut Kielland, F. Stuart Chapin III, A. David McCuire, and Keith Van Cleve Part IV. Changing Regional Processes 16. Watershed Hydrology and Chemistry in the Alaskan Boreal Forest: The Central Role of Permafrost / Larry D. Hinzman, W. Robert Bolton, Kevin C. Petrone, Jeremy B. Jones, and Phyllis C. Adams 17. Fire Trends in the Alaskan Boreal Forest / Eric S. Kasischke, T. Scott Rupp, and David L. Verbyla 18. Timber Harvest in Interior Alaska / Tricia L. Wurtz, Robert A. Ott, and John C. Maisch 19. Climate Feedbacks in the Alaskan Boreal Forest / A. David McCuire and F. Stuart Chapin III 20. Communication of Alaskan Boreal Science with Broader Communities / Elena B. Sparrow, Janice C. Dawe, and F. Stuart Chapin III 21. Summary and Synthesis: Past and Future Changes in the Alaskan Boreal Forest / F. Stuart Chapin III, A. David McCuire, Roger W. Ruess, Marilyn W. Walker, Richard D. Boone, Mary E. Edwards, Bruce P. Finney, Larry D. Hinzman, Jeremy B. Jones, Clenn P. Juday, Eric S. Kasischke, Knut Kielland, Andrea H. Lloyd, Mark W. Oswood, Chien-Lu Ping, Eric Rexstad, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, Joshua P. Schimel, Elena B. Sparrow, Bjartmar Sveinbjornsson, David W. Valentine, Keith Van Cleve, David L. Verbyla, Leslie A. Viereck, Richard A. Werner, Tricia L. Wurtz, and John Yarie Index

Note: Contents: Part I. Introduction: 1. Probabilistic risk analysis ; Part II. Theoretical Issues and Background: 2. What is uncertainty? ; 3. Probabilistic methods ; 4. Statistical inference ; 5. Weibull analysis ; Part II. System Analysis and Quantification: 6. Fault and event trees ; 7. Fault trees - analysis ; 8. Dependent failures ; 9. Reliability data bases ; 10. Expert opinion ; 11. Human reliability ; 12. Software reliability ; Part IV. Uncertainty Modeling and Risk Measurement: 13. Decision theory ; 14. Influence diagrams and belief nets ; 15. Project risk management ; 16. Probabilistic inversion ; 17. Uncertainty analysis ; 18. Risk measurement and regulation ; Bibliography ; Index.