Ebook: Global Environmental Change: Modelling and Monitoring

The growing number of published works dedicated to global environmental change leads to the realization that protection of the natural environment has become an urgent problem. The question of working out principles of co­ evolution of man and nature is being posed with ever-increasing persistence. Scientists in many countries are attempting to find ways of formulating laws governing human processes acting on the environment. Numerous national and international programs regarding biosphere and climate studies contribute to the quest for means of resolving the conflict between human society and nature. However, attempts to find efficient methods of regulating human activity on a global scale encounter principal difficulties. The major difficulty is the lack of an adequate knowledge base pertaining to climatic and biospheric processes as wen as the largely incomplete state of the databases concerning global processes occurring in the atmosphere, in the ocean, and on land. Another difficulty is the inability of modern science to formulate the requirements which must be met by the global databases necessary for reliable evaluation of the state of the environ­ ment and fore casting its development for sufficiently long time intervals.

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This is a timely book in light of increasing concern over global warming and environmental pollution. It describes a simulation system based on sets of computer algorithms for comprehensive analysis of data from global and regional monitoring systems. Chapters in the theoretical part of the book contain descriptions of rigorous algorithms and global environmental models. The applied part considers specific problems of environmental dynamics in areas such as the Arctic and the Caspian-Aral Seas. The purpose of this book is to develop a universal information technology to estimate the state of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions. Applied mathematicians, hydrologists, geophysicists, socio-economists and other researchers of global change will find a wealth of information in this book.

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This is a timely book in light of increasing concern over global warming and environmental pollution. It describes a simulation system based on sets of computer algorithms for comprehensive analysis of data from global and regional monitoring systems. Chapters in the theoretical part of the book contain descriptions of rigorous algorithms and global environmental models. The applied part considers specific problems of environmental dynamics in areas such as the Arctic and the Caspian-Aral Seas. The purpose of this book is to develop a universal information technology to estimate the state of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions. Applied mathematicians, hydrologists, geophysicists, socio-economists and other researchers of global change will find a wealth of information in this book.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Introduction....Pages 1-25
The Basic Principles of Global Ecoinformatics....Pages 27-61
Mathematical Model for Global Ecological Investigations....Pages 63-129
Modeling of Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics....Pages 131-162
Application of a Global Model to the Study of Arctic Basin Pollution....Pages 163-187
Estimation of the Peruvian Current Ecosystem....Pages 189-205
A New Technology for Monitoring Environment in the Okhotsk Sea....Pages 207-228
Pollutant Dynamics in the Angara-Yenisey River System....Pages 229-242
Realization of GIMS Technology for the Study of the Aral-Caspian Aquageosystem....Pages 243-258
Monitoring of the Seas in the Oil and Gas Extraction Zones....Pages 259-278
Decision-Making Procedures in Environmental Monitoring Systems....Pages 279-297
Back Matter....Pages 299-317

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This is a timely book in light of increasing concern over global warming and environmental pollution. It describes a simulation system based on sets of computer algorithms for comprehensive analysis of data from global and regional monitoring systems. Chapters in the theoretical part of the book contain descriptions of rigorous algorithms and global environmental models. The applied part considers specific problems of environmental dynamics in areas such as the Arctic and the Caspian-Aral Seas. The purpose of this book is to develop a universal information technology to estimate the state of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions. Applied mathematicians, hydrologists, geophysicists, socio-economists and other researchers of global change will find a wealth of information in this book.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Introduction....Pages 1-25
The Basic Principles of Global Ecoinformatics....Pages 27-61
Mathematical Model for Global Ecological Investigations....Pages 63-129
Modeling of Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics....Pages 131-162
Application of a Global Model to the Study of Arctic Basin Pollution....Pages 163-187
Estimation of the Peruvian Current Ecosystem....Pages 189-205
A New Technology for Monitoring Environment in the Okhotsk Sea....Pages 207-228
Pollutant Dynamics in the Angara-Yenisey River System....Pages 229-242
Realization of GIMS Technology for the Study of the Aral-Caspian Aquageosystem....Pages 243-258
Monitoring of the Seas in the Oil and Gas Extraction Zones....Pages 259-278
Decision-Making Procedures in Environmental Monitoring Systems....Pages 279-297
Back Matter....Pages 299-317
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