Oceanography (seas and oceans)

Grounded in current research, this second edition has been thoroughly updated, featuring new topics, global examples and online material.

Exchange of information in the field of earth sciences is increasingly needed to stay informed about advances.

The goals of wind wave research are relatively well defined: to be able to predict the wind wave field and its effect on the environment.

This book uses the Lagrangian approach, especially useful and convenient for studying large-scale transport and mixing in the ocean, to present a detailed view of ocean circulation.

Through two victorious world conflicts and a Cold War, the U.

Because of the biological origin of many siliceous deposits, their geochemical transformation in the marine environment, and their occurrence in many formations around the world, oceanographers, paleontologists, geologists, geochemists, and sedimentologists are working closely together to trace the evolution of such deposits.

This Proceedings contains over 260 papers on cutting-edge research presented at the 9th International Conference on Coastal Sediments 2019 (CS19), held in Tampa/St.

The U.

The Earth Science Series of the Circum-Pacific Funding for ship time was made available through Council for Energy and Mineral Resources (CPCEMR) the U.

This book presents a novel examination of Marine Protected Areas within a security context, bridging science, policy, and geopolitics, and addressing the often-under-emphasized aspect of environmental justice.

Estuaries, bays and contiguous coastal seas are the world's most valuable, and yet most vulnerable marine ecosystems.

A Journey Through Tides is a fully comprehensive text on the history of tides.

A comprehensive overview of the science involved in automated prediction of sea ice, for sea ice analysts, researchers, and professionals.

This new book, as described in the Preface, presents a collection of contributions by several participants of the First National Congress of Marine Sciences organ- ized by the CoNISMa.

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

In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet.

In this wide-ranging and comprehensive review of the historical development and current status of ocean circulation models, the analysis extends from simple analytical approaches to the latest high-resolution numerical models with data assimilation.

Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries.

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

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.

Estuaries are complex and fascinating natural environments, where constantly changing water depths generate rapidly reversing currents and transport vast quantities of salt, heat, and sediment on a daily basis.

This book focuses on general issues of deep-sea mining for seafloor mineral deposits, as well as the scientific, technical, legal and policy issues related to impacts on the water column.

This United Nations report examines the current state of knowledge of the world''s oceans, for policymakers, and provides a reference for marine science courses.

This book provides a survey of the frontiers of research in the numerical modeling and mathematical analysis used in the study of the atmosphere and oceans.

This book describes a comprehensive selection of ocean processes such as wave phenomena (surface, internal gravitational, and acoustic waves), the influence of surfactants and pollutants on the aquatic environment's dynamics, the models of the stratified natural environment, convective phenomena in the ocean, and the interaction of wave and convective processes.

An concise overview of iron formations as archives of diverse palaeoenvironmental information on early Earth history.

More and more of the nation's vast coastlines are being filled with homes and vacation resorts.

Changes in sea level caused by global warming can be disastrous to modern civilization.

Ocean Currents: Physical Drivers in a Changing World opens with a general introduction to the character, measurement, and simulation of ocean currents, leading to a physical and dynamical framework for understanding the wide variety of flows encountered in the oceans.

Describes biological rhythms and clocks evolved by marine organisms in relation to tidal, daily, lunar and seasonal life cycle events.

Shows how bold action by governments can protect human health and lead us to a sustainable future.

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF 2022 'A landmark book.

The Department of Defense is in the process of transforming the nation'sarmed forces to meet the military challenges of the 21st century.

The book gives an overview of the tectonic, geological, potential fields, etc maps of the Arctic that were compiled during geological and geophysical studies conducted in the Arctic over the past 15 years under the International project "e;Atlas of Geological Maps of the Circumpolar Arctic at a scale of 5M"e; and presents the results of geological, geophysical, paleogeographic and tectonic studies carried out in the Arctic Ocean and the Eastern Arctic during the implementation of national mapping and scientific programmes and studies intended to provide scientific substantiation for the extension of the continental shelf (ECS).

This Brief deals with the reconstruction of Holocene paleoenvironment in the central part of Bangladesh in relation to relative sea-level (RSL) changes which is 200 km north from the present coastline.

Hydrologythe science of wateris central to our understanding of the global environment and its many problems.

Sea mines have been important in naval warfare throughout history and continue to be so today.

This conference provided a forum for active researchers to discuss the state of the art in theoretical and computational acoustics.

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

Engineers' dreams and fossil energy replacement schemes can come true.

Understand the absorption of energy from ocean waves by means of oscillating systems with this useful new edition.

The support of subsea oil and gas production operations involves the use of many underwater work systems.

Lake Mendota has often been called "e;the most studied lake in the world.

Up to about 30 years' ago diving activity was centred primarily on the naval services, who provided a lead in the development of equipment, techniques and procedures.

Rifted Ocean-Continent Boundaries covers a wide range of topics, from quantitative modelling to current knowledge of the structure and evolution of specific margins around the world.

This book highlights latest research advance in the field of Radioscience, Equatorial Atmospheric Science and Environment as part of the International Symposium for Equatorial Atmosphere celebrating the 21st Anniversary of the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) , organized by Research Center for Climate and Atmosphere (PRIMA) of National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN).