Oceanography (seas and oceans)

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of equatorially-confined waves and currents in the ocean.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

Although Volume 1 deals mainly with phytoplankton, it ends with a comparison of the primary productivity of different major regions and of the factors responsible for varying production.

For the 119 species of marine mammals, as well as for some other aquatic animals, sound is the primary means of learning about the environment and of communicating, navigating, and foraging.

Natural radiation is omnipresent everywhere on the earth, and humans cannot avoid it.

This timely study is concerned with the current record of sea-level changes during the past 10,000 years; their rates, and our ability to estimate these changes accurately.

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

This book focuses on the evaluation of wave energy in the Maritime Silk Road.

An accessible book for graduate students and researchers that describes how the laws of thermodynamics apply to Earth system processes.

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.

The aim of this book is to become something practical, providing a description of the essential theory (explained simply) and many solved exercises.

For years, exploration of seabed natural resources has been ongoing while exploitation in deep marine areas remained unrealistic due to land-based mineral availability and costs.

Offers a multidisciplinary edited volume on policy dimensions of climate change for the world''s oceans, for researchers, policymakers and activists.

This volume is a complete review and reference work for scientists, engineers, and students concerned with coral reefs in the Red Sea.

This book systematically introduces the petroleum geological characteristics and exploration theory of marine strata in China.

Coastal waters are important ecological systems and vital assets for many nations.

Symposia do not just happen, and those which venture on the Bureau of IUT AM.

"e;Polar Seas Oceanography"e; describes a new tool called the Generic Model System for simulations and assessment of potential radioactive spreading in the Arctic regions, through rivers, estuaries, regional seas and the Arctic and Atlantic basin.

This volume discusses environmental issues associated with deep-sea mining, with an emphasis on potential impacts, their consequences and the policy perspectives.

The Discovery of the calcareous Ioffe Drift in the SW Atlantic in 2010 opens new perspectives in the contourite theory.

Outlines the state of the art in our understanding of wave breaking for researchers, modellers, engineers and graduate students in oceanography, meteorology and ocean engineering.

The impetus for the conference held at Bombannes, France in May, 1982 arose out of a Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Working Group on "e;Mathematical Models in Biological Oceanography"e;.

The California Current System is one of the best studied ocean regions of the world, and the level of oceanographic information available is perhaps only surpassed by the northeast and northwest Atlantic.

An intuitive introduction to basic Fourier theory, with numerous practical applications from the geosciences and worked examples in R.

GOOS is an international programme for a permanent global framework of observations, modelling and analysis of ocean variables which are needed to support operational services around the world.

The Volume Contains Papers Presented At The International Symposium On Phycology Ogranized As Part Of Prof.

Marine Geochemistry offers a fully comprehensive and integrated treatment of the chemistry of the oceans, their sediments and biota.

Over the last 100 years, sea level has risen approximately 12 centimeters and is expected to continue rising at an even faster rate.

The dynamics of flows in density-stratified fluids has been and remains now an important topic for scientific enquiry.

This book presents a systemic view of the diversity of pressures and impacts produced by climate change and human actions.

Modelling of marine ecosystems is a rapidly developing branch of interdisciplinary oceanographic research.

This book describes the work of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) since its launch 1992.

The United States and China are each actively pursuing development of a Blue Economy to promote greater marine, maritime, and naval capabilities through more innovative, sustainable and environmentally friendly means.

This is the second part of the translation of the original German text Meerestechnische Konstruktionen which was published by Springer-Verlag in 1988.

Petrology of the Ocean Floor

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022'A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things .

Many key issues in dynamical meteorology and physical oceanography depend on interactions among diverse spatial scales.

A distinction between contamination and pollution is useful when we wish to consider what strategies to adopt in researching the impact of anthropogenic activities on the marine environment.

On decadal time scales, climate change may result not only from man-made causes, but also from natural processes.

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

In global coastal zones, the major fabric of goods and services for human welfare as well as global changes are extraordinarily visible.

Every year that passes without a tsunami means that we're just that much closer to our next one.

The Indian Ocean and its Role in the Global Climate System provides an overview of our contemporary understanding of the Indian Ocean (geology, atmosphere, ocean, hydrology, biogeochemistry) and its role in the climate system.

Hotspots are enigmatic surface features that are not easily explained in the framework of plate tectonics.

World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Second Edition, Volume Three: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts covers global issues relating to our seas, including a biological description of the coast and continental shelf waters, the development and use of the coast, landfills and their effects, pollutant discharges over time, the effects of over-fishing, and the management methods and techniques used to ensure continued ecosystem functioning.

Plankton populations have lived in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years, performing essential functions within marine ecosystems.

This book develops a fundamental understanding of geophysical fluid dynamics based on a mathematical description of the flows of inhomogeneous fluids.

This book is a unique and authoritative review of chemical fronts in the ocean world.

Are the nation's ports adequate for our present and future needs?

Physical Oceanography of the Dying Aral Sea describes the background, present crisis state, and possible future of this peculiar inland water body from the physical oceanographic standpoint.