Oceanography (seas and oceans)

A wide variety of problems are associated with the flow of shallow water, such as atmospheric flows, tides, storm surges, river and coastal flows, lake flows, tsunamis.

This book represents the most comprehensive overview of issues affecting our planet and the forefront solutions, including climate change, air, water, soil pollution, demography, and access to food and water.

Nous avons tous le sentiment que le temps « se détraque », et nous l'imputons aux civilisations urbaines et industrielles d'une population devenue trop nombreuse.

This book provides a thorough understanding of the techniques used to retrieve multi-scale information from turbulent and complex systems, with case studies.

Earth's Rotation from Eons to Days reviews long-term changes, methods of measurement, and the major influences on rotation parameters.

Recent studies suggest that tropical cyclones are more powerful than in the past with the most dramatic increase in the North Atlantic.

Tsunamis and hurricanes continue to have a devastating impact on the population living near the coast.

This monograph presents the state of art of the geologic knowledge about the Spanish coast obtained through scientific research in the last 30 years.

This book presents a detailed study of the structure and variability of internal tides and their geographical distribution in the ocean.

The coasts cover a diverse range of ecosystems within marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments.

An ideal multidisciplinary introduction to the key global phenomenon of mid-ocean ridges, for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and professionals.

Sound Images of the Ocean is the first book of its kind which offers a comprehensive overview of acoustic imaging applications in the various fields of marine research, utilization, surveillance, and protection.

Coasts and Estuaries: The Future provides valuable information on how we can protect and maintain natural ecological structures while also allowing estuaries to deliver services that produce societal goods and benefits.

The theory of waves is generalized on cases when waves change medium in which they appear and propagate.

Shallow water acoustics (SWA), the study of how low and medium frequency sound propagates and scatters on the continental shelves of the worlds oceans, has both technical interest and a large number of practical applications.

Providing a guide for marine conservation practice, Marine Conservation takes a whole-systems approach, covering major advances in marine ecosystem understanding.

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.

With strong personal and professional ties to the Gulf of Mexico, marine geologist John B.

A synthesis of current understanding of the adaptations, physiology and population dynamics of phytoplankton communities.

This textbook shows all the existing knowledge about coastal geology and its implications for coastal management.

Strontium and its isotopes provide solutions to important geologic problems and offer clues about seminal events in Earth history.

This IAS Special Publication contains 23 papers presented at the 3rd International Research Symposium on Modern and Ancient Clastic Tidal Deposits.

The explosion of interest, effort, and information about the ocean since about 1950 has produced many thousand scientific articles and many hun- dred books.

During recent years, large-scale investigations into global climate change and other highly visible issues have taken the lion's share of declining research funds.

This literature study presents an overview of underwater acoustic networking.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) contracted with the Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to establish a committee to review ONR's Air and Surface Weapons Technology (ASWT) program.

In many geological epochs, glacial sediments are widespread.

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

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

This unprecedented volume presents a sweeping picture of what we know about the natural history, biology, and ecology of whales in the broad context of the dynamics of ocean ecosystems.

Modeling of Extreme Waves in Technology and Nature is a two-volume set, comprising Evolution of Extreme Waves and Resonances (Volume I) and Extreme Waves and Shock-Excited Processes in Structures and Space Objects (Volume II).

This heavily illustrated book is written by top archaeologists who study Florida's sunken heritage in unique underwater sites.

The "e;Blue Economy"e; is used to describe all of the economic activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on sustainability.

Prospecting and exploration for manganese nodules has, as its ultimate objective, the discovery and delineation of an area of the ocean floor with reserves of sufficient quantity and quality to support a mining operation under existing economic, technical and political conditions.

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

This book is devoted to the Little Bustard, a medium sized Paleartic steppe bird whose distribution ranges from the Iberian Peninsula to Central Asia.

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

Thisbook focuses on the recent results of the research project funded by aGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) of the Japan Society for the Promotionof Science (No.

Science and Engineering of Freak Waves provides a holistic and interdisciplinary view of extreme ocean waves for both scientific and engineering applications.

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First published in 1987, Maritime Boundaries and Ocean Resources is a collection of essays which examines the political jurisdiction of ocean boundaries and the affects that this has on the world's oceans.

For over twenty years, the Joint Program in Physical Oceanography of MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has based its education program on a series of core courses in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and Physical Oceanography.

This book explores the fragile Arctic marine environment from the perspective of marine toxicology, shedding light on the intricate relationship between pollution, contaminants, and Arctic ecosystems.

This upper-undergraduate/graduate-level textbook introduces students to large-scale tropical climate circulation and its variations, covering their fundamental aspects and our current understanding of how they are impacted in a warming world.

The study of the topography and structure of the ocean floor is one of the most important stages in ascertaining the geological structure and history of development of the Earth's oceanic crust.

In this revision of the calanoid copepod family Heterorhabdidae, 7 genera and 59 species are recognized, and 25 species are described as new.

A thrilling tour of the sea's most extreme species, written by one of the world's leading marine scientistsThe ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments.

What affects the oceans affects terra firma.