Oceanography (seas and oceans)

Since 1871 the Cape Hatteras lighthouse has been a welcome sight for sailors entering the treacherous region off North Carolina's Outer Banks known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.

This book provides a detailed review of terminations of ice ages, including a very attractive theory based on dust deposits on ice sheets.

"e;A system is viable only if it combines speed and slowness,"e; write Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly.

This book is a comprehensive elucidation on aspects of reproduction and development in platyhelminthes covering from acoelids to taeniids.

Key biogeochemical events in the ocean take place in less than a second, are studied in experiments lasting a few hours, and determine cycles that last over seasons or even years.

The Advanced Study Institute Ice Physics in the Natural and Endangered Environ- ment was held at Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, from September 7 to 19, 1997.

This textbook provides graduate and advanced undergraduate students with a comprehensive introduction to the application of basic principles and concepts for physical and engineering acoustics.

This book presents recent results of collaborative studies in geophysics and ecology, focusing on the relationship between the physical environment and the distribution of the marine coastal ecosystems.

Everyone working in a problem as complex as continental drift, must at some time have feit the need for an objective data summary in fields other than his own.

This book describes a recent effort combining interdisciplinary expertise within the Collaborative Research Centre "e;Energy transfers in atmosphere and ocean"e; (TRR-181), which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

This book provides an overview of the major changes induced by hydrocarbons (HCs) affecting rocks and surface sediments and their implications for non-seismic exploration methods, particularly for marine territories near Cuba.

Atoll Island States exist on top of what is perceived to be one of the planet's most vulnerable ecosystems: atolls.

Recent scientific literature has raised many concerns about whether fisheries have caused more extensive changes to marine populations and ecosystems than previously realized or predicted.

Freshwater and Marine Ecology is an introduction to the field of aquatic ecology, integrating the conceptually and methodologically widely overlapping fields of limnology and biological oceanography.

The book presents a wide description of hydrographic conditions in the studied area of the Norwegian and Greenland Seas.

Dieses Buch von Rainer Lüthje widmet sich dem faszinierenden Phänomen der Gezeiten.

The ocean plays a central role in determining the climate of the earth.

Estuarine and coastal waters are acknowledged centres for anthropogenic impacts.

Dive in to this breathtaking read about the world's oceansExplore the last wilderness left on Earth, with an enhanced and updated edition of this exhaustive guide to the underwater world.

Using field observations and simple models, this book describes the latest developments in the hydrodynamics and morphodynamics of tidal inlets.

The establishment of the U.

Dredged Material and Mine Tailings are two of the same thing once they are deposited on land: they must be safe-guarded, wash-out must be prevented, and they must be protected by a plantcover.

Matthew Fontaine Maury has been nicknamed the "e;pathfinder of the seas"e; and the "e;father of modern oceanography"e;.

The ever increasing emission of carbon dioxide due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, unplanned tourism and alteration of land use pattern is causing unprecedented changes to marine biodiversity.

There are few marine creatures as spectacular as the Basking Shark.

This book provides an analysis of the evolution of navigation and seaborne trade in the Black Sea, considering the geographic, geological, and hydro-meteorological data, including information from the historical, geopolitical, economic, social, and military frames.

The third edition of this bestselling text has been rigorously updated to reflect major new discoveries and concepts since 2011, especially progress due to extensive application of high-throughput sequencing, single cell genomics and analysis of large datasets.

A comprehensive account of how abiotic and biotic interactions shape patterns of coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystem processes globally.

This book contributes to the current discussion on global environmental changes by discussing modifications in marine ecosystems related to global climate changes.

Since the HMS Challenger expedition of 1872 1876, our vision of the ocean has changed completely.

This book discusses in detail the facts and findings related to the X-Press Pearl container vessel accident that occurred in May 2021 off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Oceanography, also known as oceanology and marine science, is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean.

Ever wonder where sand comes from?

Discover the science, cultural history, and environmental importance of our planet's oceans.

The Italian-annotated bibliography on tunas, tuna-like and billfish species is a sort of unicum, because for the very first time, it provides annotation in English for all papers published by Italian authors over the centuries in various languages.

Phytoplankton, or algae, are the engines of the Earth.

There is hardly a field of science or engineering that does not have some interest in light scattering by small particles.

The study of estuaries and coasts has seen enormous growth in recent years, since changes in these areas have a large effect on the food chain, as well as on the physics and chemistry of the ocean.

This volume is based on the proceedings of the COSPAR/SCOR/ IUCRM Symposium "e;Oceanography From Space"e; held in May 1980 in Venice, Italy.

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale.

The book discusses various aspects of the technical support of underwater archaeological research in marine and freshwater areas.

This book provides contributions from leading experts on the integration of novel sensing technologies to yield unprecedented observations of coupled biological, chemical, and physical processes in the ocean from the macro to micro scale.

This book focuses on understanding the characteristics of the marine environment; overall characteristic of the marine resources (especially the marine new energy) and their current utilization; important routes, channels, and ports; and the Maritime Silk Road from the perspective of international law.

The book considers the riverine paleo structures of the coastal marine zone from the point of view of marine bottom seismic acoustics.

The California Current--part of the large, swirling North Pacific gyre--flows slowly southward along the west coast of North America, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from southern British Columbia to the tip of Baja California in Mexico.

To offer security in the maritime domain, governments around the world need the capabilities to directly confront common threats like piracy, drug-trafficking, and illegal immigration.

A comprehensive account of how abiotic and biotic interactions shape patterns of coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystem processes globally.

This book is a natural extension of the SCOPE (Scientific Committee of Problems on the Environment) volumes on the carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and sulfur (S) biogeochemical cycles and their interactions (Likens, 1981; Bolin and Cook, 1983).

The zone where land and sea meet is composed of a variety of complex environments.