Oceanography (seas and oceans)

These proceedings contain papers by some of the world's leading experts in the analytical and numerical modelling of sediment transport, its measurement on site and in the laboratory, river and coastal morphology, and similar issues.

This volume is dedicated to Dr Ding Lee for his untiring efforts in promoting the advancement of theoretical and computational acoustics.

Understanding and constructively using natural sound in the ocean has become of prime importance with the shift of emphasis to protecting the environment and exercising responsible global resource management which has followed the end of the Cold War.

The ocean is the ultimate sink for all liquid waste and has for many years been the recipient of both treated and untreated sewage waste.

This volume contains six papers discussing coastal processes, and physical and numerical modeling.

New Edition: Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and Prediction (3rd Edition)This book is intended as a handbook for professionals and researchers in the areas of Physical Oceanography, Ocean and Coastal Engineering and as a text for graduate students in these fields.

This book contains updated, reviewed versions of the best papers on "e;Modelling Coastal Sea Processes"e; presented at the International Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific Conference, held in Adelaide, South Australia, on 23-27 October 1995.

This book contains updated, reviewed versions of some selected papers on "e;Sea-Level Changes and their Effects"e; presented at the International Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific Conference (OAP 95), held in Adelaide, South Australia, 23-27 October 1995.

The geosciences, particularly numerical weather prediction, are demanding the highest levels of available computer power.

This book presents the experience of coastal and port engineering development, as well as coastal environmental problems, in Asian and Pacific countries.

This book aims to present the overall existing tsunami hazard in the Caribbean Sea region, a region which is typically only associated with hurricanes.

This review volume is divided into two parts.

Advances in Geosciences is the result of a concerted effort to bring together the latest results and planning activities related to earth and space science in Asia and the international arena.

Coastal Dynamics 2009 is the sixth conference in a sequence of technical speciality conferences bringing together field and laboratory experimentalists, theoreticians and modelers conducting research on the dynamics of the coastal systems.

The objective of this book is to introduce new researchers to the rich dynamical system of water waves, and to show how (some) abstract mathematical concepts can be applied fruitfully in a practical physical problem and to make the connection between theory and experiment.

A tidal bore is a series of waves propagating upstream as the tidal flow turns to rising.

New Edition: Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and Prediction (3rd Edition)The book is an extended and updated edition of the book published in 1996 under the same title (World Scientific, ISBN 9810216866).

Successful coastal and ocean engineering projects rely on practical experience with technical tools and knowledge available to the engineer.

While there are several excellent books dealing with numerical analysis and analytical theory, one has to practically sift through hundreds of references.

Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors.

This book investigates the architectures and characteristics of OUSNs, the mobility models of OUSN nodes, the challenges of message dissemination, and some evaluation indexes of message dissemination.

This book focuses on prehistoric East Asian maritime cultures that pre-dated the Maritime Silk Road, the "e;Four Seas"e; and "e;Four Oceans"e; navigation system recorded in historical documents of ancient China.

This book is an important addition to the knowledge of lobster research.

This is the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts.

This book is an extended and substantially updated edition of the previous book editions published in 1996 and 2013 under the same title.

The handbook contains a comprehensive compilation of topics that are at the forefront of many of the technical advances in ocean waves, coastal, and ocean engineering.

This book set is a revised version of the 2005 edition of Theory and Applications of Ocean Surface Waves.

This book summarizes achievements of the study on circulation and air-sea interaction and development of the ocean observation network in the South China Sea in the last 20 years, thus serving as a comprehensive reference book to understand the dynamic environment in the SCS.

The oil-gas conductor is the key part that connects subsea facilities and offshore equipment.

This book is an extended and substantially updated edition of the previous book editions published in 1996 and 2013 under the same title.

This book systematically introduces the knowledge system and research results of fisheries forecasting.

This book introduces a mathematical theory for the interaction of oceanic surface gravity waves and oceanic currents.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the Fourth International Technical Symposium on Deepwater Oil and Gas Engineering & The Third International Youth Forum on Gas Hydrate, held in Qingdao, China in December 2021.

This book guides readers to the new concept of "e;Satoumi"e; and explains how its practice works to solve challenges in complex social-ecological systems of coastal areas.

This auto-translation book overviews the fish population and its research methods, help readers in understanding the concept of fish population and population identification.

This book presents a comprehensive and innovative understanding of the role of shallow coastal ecosystems in carbon cycling, particularly marine carbon sequestration.

This book focuses on understanding the shoreline dynamics, nearshore processes and sediment transport around Rameswaram Island and the cities of Dhanushkodi and Arichamunai.

The book introduces fish distant hybridization, which covers the basic theory and applications of fish distant hybridization as well as the main biological characteristics of different ploidy fish at the individual, tissue, cell, and molecular level.

This book aims to establish a wind energy evaluation system, to provide scientific reference for site selection, daily operation and long-term planning of wind power generation, thus to make contribution to breaking the shackles of power shortage.

This book demonstrates various types of deepwater risers with different motion equations and boundary conditions depending on their different structural configurations.

The book covers various biotechnological research efforts and their applications in fisheries and aquaculture, especially in the area of fish breeding, health management, nutrition and culture.

This book highlights state-of-the-art research findings on floating developments in both inland and coastal waters with focus on living, recreation and working offshore.

This is the first authored English book completely focused on global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R).

This book focuses on the survey technology, post-processing technology, mapping technology and scientific application of the submarine topography and geomorphology in detail.

This book is intended to meet the needs of those who seek to develop control systems for ROVs when there is no model available during the initial design stage.

This book investigates Reliability-based Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (RBMDO) theory and its application in the design of deep manned submersibles (DMSs).

This book discusses temporal changes in six Asia-Pacific marginal seas and two west boundary currents in the Northwest Pacific.

This book is focused on fundamental aspects of climate variability in the ocean, in particular changes of the wind-driven circulation.