Oceanography (seas and oceans)

Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea lays down the rules and regulations governing claims to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles for the 130 coastal States and entities that have ratified or acceded to it.

In this book, key discoveries in the field of statistical ocean acoustics over the last 35 years are addressed with illustrations from ocean observations.

Integrated Coastal Management in the Japanese Satoumi: Restoring Estuaries and Bays provides an in-depth exploration of the integrated costal management (ICM) used in the Japanese Satoumi.

This unique richly-illustrated account of the landforms and geology of the world's coasts, presented in a country-by-country (state-by-state) sequence, assembles a vast amount of data and images of an endangered and increasingly populated and developed landform.

A systematic, unifying approach to the dynamics of the ocean and atmosphere is given in this book, with emphasis on the larger-scale motions (from a few kilometers to global scale).

A comprehensive view of icebergs and their interaction with the ocean and climate, from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Each year, the concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in the mixed layer at Station S in the Sargasso Sea decreases from winter to summer by about 30 umol/kg.

Exploring the link between the ocean's currents and rapid climate changeWally Broecker is one of the world's leading authorities on abrupt global climate change.

Achieving sustainability is perhaps the single-most important task for our generation.

A reference volume discussing the dynamics, mixing, sediment regimes and morphological evolution in estuaries for researchers, students and engineers.

The global human population will reach nine billion by 2050, and seafood is projected to be the primary food source to sustain such a large population.

Dead zones are on the rise.

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The continuing global decline of the health of the sea, and the increasing depletion of marine resources and biodiversity, caused by human activity and climate change, have led to ever-increasing international concern.

Climate change, a familiar term today, is far more than just global warming due to atmospheric greenhouse gases including CO2.

Provides a quantitative, accessible approach to the fundamental physics and biology of the coastal ocean, for undergraduate and graduate students.

This volume provides various examples and dimensions, chemical, biological, climatic, or related to extreme (hazards).

The background for the Workshop on Cohesive Sediment Dynamics - .

Draws on contributions from leading researchers to deliver a comprehensive overview of the latest knowledge on coral reef fishes.

A unified and comprehensive account of the fundamental equations of atmospheric and oceanic models for climate and weather forecasting.

The first comprehensive treatment of the theory for small and large amplitude internal gravity waves, with illustrative examples and exercises.

The United States faces decisions requiring information about the oceans in vastly expanded scales of time and space and from oceanic sectors not accessible with the suite of tools now used by scientists and engineers.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography.

This textbook provides a unique and thorough look at the application of chemical biomarkers to aquatic ecosystems.

This is the first of two volumes that together provide an integrated picture of the Montenegrin Adriatic coast, presenting the natural components of the system as well as the chemical composition and chemical processes in the extended area.

Embark on an extraordinary journey into the depths of the ocean.

This contribution summarises the state-of-the-art with respect to the use of the Fe speciation paleoredox proxy.

Measuring Ocean Currents: Tools, Technologies, and Data covers all major aspects of ocean current measurements in view of the implications of ocean currents on changing climate, increasing pollution levels, and offshore engineering activities.

Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook is the ultimate instruction manual for mitigation measures to minimise man-made acoustical and physical disturbances to marine mammals from industrial and defence activities.

This title was originally published in 1965.

Waves critically affect man in coastal regions, including the open coasts and adjacent continental shelves.

* Updated edition of a best-selling title * Author brings 25 years experience to the work * Addresses the key issues of economy and environment Marine pipelines for the transportation of oil and gas have become a safe and reliable way to exploit the valuable resources below the world's seas and oceans.

This book describes emerging and unresolved sustainability issues related to the oceans and marine environment, for policy makers, students and academics.

The field of oceanographic data assimilation is now well established.

This postgraduate level text and reference treatise introduces readers to tides, tidal currents, storm-surges and sea level trends in coastal regions.

From the bestselling author of Breath, a fascinating, informative, exhilarating voyage from the oceans surface to its darkest trenches (Wall Street Journal)New York Times Book ReviewEditors ChoiceAn Amazon Best Science Book of 2014Scientific AmericanRecommended ReadFascinatedby the sport of freedivingin which competitors descendgreat depths on a single breathJames Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers.

This book is about the ocean and about the future.

Marine resources and their exploitation, recovery and economic networks they generate are here from the perspective now inevitable growing environmental constraints, policy management and technical innovation.

In this paper differences and anomalies in west coast seasonal flow structures have been highlighted.

An Open Access overview of physical processes that generate instability in geophysical flows, emphasising numerical methods and simple rules to predict instability.

This volume contains the ten most cited articles that have appeared in the journal Atmosphere-Ocean since 1995.

This book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary assessment of different problems associated with estuarine acidification with special thrust on mangrove dominated Indian Sundarban estuaries.

Human health and well-being are tied to the vitality of the global ocean and coastal systems on which so many live and rely.

'Seawater' has been substantially updated in this second edition to take account of recent developments in marine science.

The only book that offers a comprehensive and fully up-to-date coverage of hydroacoustic ocean exploration, this work deals with the diagnostics of non-uniformities in a water medium using the hydroacoustic parametric antenna.

A 2007 reference on geomorphological studies on reefs for researchers and graduate students in geomorphology and oceanography.