Oceanography (seas and oceans)

The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States.

This book recognizes the fact that the vessels' intended operational profile may vary as some vessels are intended to operate with the assistance of an ice breaker and others are intended to operate independently.

Nonlinear Ocean Dynamics: Synthetic Aperture Radar delivers the critical tools needed to understand the latest technology surrounding the radar imaging of nonlinear waves, particularly microwave radar, as a main source to understand, analyze and apply concepts in the field of ocean dynamic surface.

In the past few years rapid progress has been made regarding our understanding of one of the dominant phytoplankton groups of the world's oceans: the coccolithophores.

This volume contains the proceedings from the COSPAR Colloquium on "e;Space Remote Sensing of Subtropical Oceans"e; which took place between 12 and 16 September, 1996, at the Institute of Oceanography of the National Taiwan University.

The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the models and methods employed in the rapidly advancing field of numerical ocean circulation modeling.

This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives.

This book describes emerging and unresolved sustainability issues related to the oceans and marine environment, for policy makers, students and academics.

This book contains 20 papers reflecting the state-of-the-art tsunami research.

Barrier islands represent a complex coastal system that includes a number of different sedimentary depositional environments; nearshore zone, beach, dunes, washover fans, marshes, tidal flats, estuaries, lagoons, and tidal inlets.

The high latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic, together with some mountainous areas with glaciers and long-lasting snow, are sometimes called the cryosphere-defined as that portion of the planet where water is perennially or seasonally frozen as sea ice, snow cover, permafrost, ice sheets, and glaciers.

There's so much we don't know about what lies deep beneath the ocean's surface - and the time to find out is growing increasingly precious .

Effective marine biodiversity conservation is dependent upon a clear scientific rationale for practical interventions.

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.

The growth of the terrorism threat to the nation's security has created significant strategic challenges for U.

Sea ice is a major component of polar environments, especially in the Arctic where it covers the entire Arctic Ocean throughout most of the year.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 48

This authoritative guide enables accurate identification of the common components of the inshore benthic invertebrates of the British Isles and adjacent European coasts, as well as a substantial proportion of fish species.

This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and scholars (those who know by thinking).

Descriptive Physical Oceanography, Sixth Edition, provides an introduction to the field with an emphasis on large-scale oceanography based mainly on observations.

A rigorously comprehensive and interdisciplinary text on wave turbulence, for graduate students and researchers in physics-related fields.

This book provides cutting-edge scientific idea and novel concepts on the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management.

The seas and oceans are currently taking centre stage in academic study and public consciousness.

This textbook provides a highly accessible and concise overview on the innate and adaptive immune systems in fish as well as on fundamentals and latest developments in fish vaccinology.

Advance your mathematical problem-solving and design skills for engineering in the ocean environment with this single cohesive source.

This book gives an overview of various aspects of blue carbon dynamics from each country bordering the Indian Ocean.

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

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This book compiles the main findings of the multidisciplinary long-term research program developed in the continental margin of one of the more productive and unknown areas of the world oceans, Northwest Africa.

Marine environmental conditions such as storms, storm surges and wave heights are directly experienced by, for example, off-shore operations or coastal populations.

The northern North Atlantic is one of the regions most sensitive to past and present global changes.

We review using iodine incorporated in calcium carbonate (including biogenic) minerals as a proxy for dissolved oxygen in seawater.

Describes the physics of the coastal ocean, for advanced students, researchers, urban planners, and environmental engineers.

Lectures on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics offers an introduction to several topics in geophysical fluid dynamics, including the theory of large-scale ocean circulation, geostrophic turbulence, and Hamiltonian fluid dynamics.

The collapse of cod, flounder, and haddock fish stocks in the Northeast United States has caused widespread concern among managers and fishers in the United States and Canada.

Over the last decade or two marine scientists have become more aware of the role of freshwater outflow in coastal waters.

Oceans account for 50% of the anthropogenic CO2 released into the atmosphere.

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.

Summarizes major temporal trends evident in Proterozoic biomarker distributions and relate to changing marine communities and environments.

This textbook explains turbulent flows using an introductory but fundamental approach to teaching the core principles, striking a balance between theoretical and practical aspects of the topic without overwhelming the reader with mathematical detail.

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.

Oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea: An Introductory Guide provides a comprehensive but concise introduction to the physical oceanography of one of the most fascinating marginal seas, the Mediterranean Sea.

This book focuses on pose estimation algorithms for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs).

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.

Sediment Dynamics of Chinese Muddy Coasts and Estuaries: Physics, Biology and Their Interactions provides a forum for the latest research addressing the physics, sedimentary processes, biology, chemistry and ecological processes associated with these rapidly changing estuarine and coastal environments.

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