Front Cover; Advances in Geophysics, Volume 32; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1. Seismicity Induced By Mining; I. Introduction.; 2. Seismicity Induced by Surface Mining.; 3. Seismicity in Underground Mines; 4. Principal Types of Mine Tremors; 5. Focal Mechanism; 6. Seismic Source Modeling; 7. Seismic Spectra and Source Parameters.; 8. Scaling Relations.; 9. Prediction and Prevention.; 10. Research Perspectives; 11. Summary; References; Chapter 2. Modeling the Pleistocene Ice Ages; 1. Introduction.; 2. Model of the World Ocean's Climate; 3. One-Dimensional Atmospheric Climate Model.

4. Time-Dependent Model for Continental Ice Cover5. Interaction among Glaciers, Oceans, and Atmosphere; 6. Simulation of the Present Climate; 7. Nonuniqueness of Climate; 8. Sensitivity of the System to Changes in Solar Heat Flux; 9. The Ice Ages; 10. The Effect of Positions of the Continents on Climate; 11. Conclusions; References; Chapter 3. Performance of a High-Resolution Mesoscale Tropical Prediction Model; 1. Introduction; 2. Dynamical Aspects of the Regional Model; 3. Physical Processes; 4. The Landfall of a Tropical Storm; 5. Sensitivity to Data Sets.

6. Sensitivity to Lateral Boundary Conditions7. Sensitivity to Horizontal Resolution; 8. Simulation of a Middle-Latitude Rainfall Event; 9. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4. Symmetries, Conservation Laws. and Hamiltonian Structure in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; 1. Introduction; 2. Finite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems; 3. Infinite-Dimensional (Continuous) Systems and Noether's Theorem; 4. Fluid-Dynamical Examples; 5. Wave-Activity Conservation Laws; 6. Nonlinear-Stability Theory; 7. Approximation of Equations; 8. Energy-Extremization Algorithms.

Appendix: Direct Derivation of the Eulerian Bracket (4.9)References; Index.