Quantitative Methods for Current Environmental Issues /

It is increasingly clear that good quantitative work in the environmental sciences must be genuinely interdisciplinary. This volume, the proceedings of the first combined TIES/SPRUCE conference held at the University of Sheffield in September 2000, well demonstrates the truth of this assertion, high...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, C. W. (Clive W.)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Barnett, Vic, Chatwin, Philip C., El-Shaarawi, A. H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Spatial and Temporal Models and Methods: Modeling Spatio-Temporally Misaligned Areal and Point Process Environmental Data. Space and Space-Time Modeling Using Process Convolutions. Multivariate Kriging for Interpolating Data from Different Sources
  • Part II. Environmental Sampling and Standards: Distance Sampling: Recent Advances and Future Directions. Setting Environmental Standards: A Statistical Approach
  • Part III. Atmosphere and Ocean: The Interpretation and Validation of Measurements of the Ocean Wave Directional Spectrum. Thermal Energy Emission and Propagation from Accidents. Development and Application of an Extended Methodology to Validate Short-Range Atmospheric Dispersion Models. Uncertainty and Sensitivity of Dispersion Model Results to Meteorological Inputs: Two Case Studies
  • Part IV. Risk and Uncertainty: Statistics and the Environmental Sciences: Approaches to Model Combination. Bayesian Analysis of Computer Code Outputs. The Realities of Decision Making on Risks.