Oceanography (seas and oceans)

This book presents the findings of recent theoretical and experimental studies of processes in the atmosphere, oceans and lithosphere, discussing their interactions, environmental issues, geology, problems related to human impacts on the environment, and methods of geophysical research.

A 2006 introduction to inverse and state estimation problems for graduate students and researchers in oceanography, climate science, and geophysical fluid dynamics.

Along much of the shoreline of the world, tidal inlets play an important role in nearshore processes, providing links between the coastal oceans and protected embayments.

This book is devoted to the quantitative physical modeling of subduction and subduction-related processes.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book provides an overview of the tropical marine environments of Brazil and a multi-disciplinary assessment of the impact of ongoing climate change in these environments.

Coastal zones play a key role in Earth System functioning and form an "e;edge for society"e; providing a significant contribution to the life support systems.

Subduction zones, one of the three types of plate boundaries, return Earth's surface to its deep interior.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

The agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors are the cornerstone of industries that produce food, fiber, and biofuel.

This improved and updated second edition covers the theory, development, and design of electro-acoustic transducers for underwater applications.

Deep-water coral reefs are found along large sections of the outer continental shelves and slopes of Europe, from North Cape to the Gulf of Cadiz, and because they also occur along the Atlantic seaboard of USA, the Gulf of Mexico, off Brazil, in the Mediterranean, and off New Zealand, they are currently being targeted by international groups of marine scientists.

Modern researchers in plate tectonics may be concerned with the analysis of distributed deformation across diffuse plate boundaries and triple junction zones.

Cold-water corals form reef structures in continental margin and seamount settings world-wide, making them more wide-spread and abundant than shallow-water reefs.

This book presents the development of oceanography of European regional and coastal seas over the last 50 years.

After discussions with the U.

Climate change, a familiar term today, is far more than just global warming due to atmospheric greenhouse gases including CO2.

This book is the outcome of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;The Eastern Mediterranean as a laboratory basin for the assessment of contrasting ecosystems"e; that was held in Kiev, Ukraine, March 23-27, 1998.

This is a theoretical and practical guide for fatigue design of marine structures including sailing ships and offshore oil structures.

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics.

Tidepools and rocky shores are among the most physically stressful environments on earth.

In this Journey to Microbial Worlds we present the diversity of microorganisms, from the state of fossil microbes in Archaean age rocks to the possibilities of extraterrestrial life.

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

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the Third World Conference on Floating Solutions WCFS 2023 Japan with an aim to pioneer the SDGs and Next SDGs by making the most use of oceans and water.

Ocean Wave Dynamics is the most up-to-date book of its kind on the three main processes responsible for the generation and evolution of ocean waves: (i) atmospheric input from the wind, (ii) wave breaking and (iii) nonlinear interactions.

Microalgae and cyanobacteria are a very diverse group of photosynthetic microorganisms with many applications.

This new reference describes the applications of modern structural engineering to marine structures.

Accretionary prisms in convergent margins are natural laboratories for exploring initial orogenic processes and mountain building episodes.

This book provides a highly illustrated synthesis of research on cold-water corals worldwide.

This book examines the corpus of status quo environmental legal regime, geographical issues and redundant "e;stakeholder claims,"e; which persist in the Arctic.

A comprehensive summary of tropical cyclone variability at time scales from intraseasonal and interannual to interdecadal and centennial.

Estuaries occur along many of the world's coastlines irrespective of geologic setting, energy regime, and depositional environment.

Among the deep-sea marine invertebrates, pycnogonids and crustaceans represent ecologically important and most diverse groups of species.

This book includes invited contributions presenting the latest research on the oceanography and environment of the Red Sea.

This book presents the findings of recent theoretical and experimental studies of processes in the atmosphere, oceans, and lithosphere, discussing their interactions, geology.

Jellyfish generally are considered to be nuisances because they interfere with human activities by stinging swimmers, clogging power plant intakes and nets of fishermen, killing fish in aquaculture pens, and being both predators and competitors of fish.

Estuarine and coastal waters are acknowledged centres for anthropogenic impacts.

Muddy coasts are land-sea transitional environments commonly found along low-energy shorelines which either receive large annual supplies of muddy sediments, or where unconsolidated muddy deposits are being eroded by wave action.

This book examines the dynamical processes between high-impact weather and climate events, and between atmospheric and ocean phenomena.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the development and evolution of flatfish metamorphosis.

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

This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the processes occurring on the coastal zone, which represents a critical interface between land and sea, as the contribution of the ocean to the provision of energy and mineral resources will likely increase in the coming decades.

Writing for a high-quality scientific aquaculture publication is challenging, and many students and early career aquaculture scientists find the task daunting.

Britain's shallow seas are a mysterious domain.

South Florida continues to attract new residents despite its susceptibility to sea-level rise.

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the theory of sound propagation in the ocean.

Cold-water corals form reef structures in continental margin and seamount settings world-wide, making them more wide-spread and abundant than shallow-water reefs.

Stable Isotope Geochemistry is an introduction to the use of stable isotopes in the fields of geoscience.

The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation is the first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental knowledge of the world-record holding, charismatic ocean behemoths in the family Molidae.