New Prospects in Environmental Geosciences and Hydrogeosciences

This edited book gives a general overview on current research, focusing on geoenvironmental issues and challenges in hydrogeosciences in model regions in Asia, Europe, and America, with a focus on the Middle East and Mediterranean region and surrounding areas. This proceedings book is based on the accepted papers for oral/poster presentations at the 2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-2), Tunisia 2019. It offers a broad range of recent studies that discuss the latest advances in geoenvironmental and hydrogeosciences from diverse backgrounds including climate change, geoecology, biogeochemistry, water resources management, and environmental monitoring and assessment. It shares insights on how the understanding of ecological, climatological, oceanic and hydrological processes is the key for improving practices in environment management, including the eco-responsibility, scientific integrity, and social and ethical dimensions. It is of interest to scientists, engineers, practitioners, and policymakers in the field of environmental sciences including climatology, oceanography, ecology, biogeochemistry, environmental management, hydrology, hydrogeology, and geosciences in general. In particular, this book is of great value to students and environment-related professionals for further investigations on the state of Earth systems.

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Climate Networks.- Assessment of temperature trends in different bioclimatic zones of India.- Statistical analysis of wind to assess climate change (central Italy).- Impact of estimated wind speed to temperature-based ET0 methods.- The remote response of Northern Hemisphere atmosphere circulation to ENSO in a changing climate.- Interannual variability of Mediterranean evaporation and its drivers during summer.- The study of low frequency sea-level oscillations: Case of Algiers harbour (Algeria).- Modeling interactions among West Atlantic hurricanes through Empirical Recurrence Rates Ratio inspired hidden Markov chains.- Performance evaluation of a new source term package ST6 of Wavewatch III in Catalan coasts (Spain).- Enhanced methane emission from Arctic seas in winter: satellite data.