Oceanography category: 437 books
Coastal Engineering
Processes, Theory and Design Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Effective coastal engineering is expensive, but it is not as costly as neglect or ineffective intervention. Good practice needs to be based on sound principles, but theoretical work and modelling also need to be well grounded in practice, which is continuously evolving. Conceptual and detailed design...
by V.E. Artemyev
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One of the basic concepts of ocean biogeochemistry is that of an ocean with extremely active boundary zones and separation boundaries of extensive biochemical interactions. The areas of these zones are characterized by a sharp decrease of element migration intensity and consequently the decrease in...
Developments in Diving Technology
Proceedings of an international conference, (Divetech ’84) organized by the Society for Underwater Technology, and held in London, UK, 14–15 November 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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. Apart from one or two spectacular salvage undertakings, the main commercial activity up until that time was fairly low-key work in...
Arctic Underwater Operations
Medical and Operational Aspects of Diving Activities in Arctic Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Opening Speech of the ICEDIVE 84 Conference by His Royal Highness Prince Bertil of Sweden I am very pleased to be invited to open the International Conference ICEDIVE 84, dealing with medical and technical problems of diving and related underwater activities in arctic conditions. Until recent times,...
by Young C Kim
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Coastal structures are an important component in any coastal protection scheme. They directly control wave and storm surge action or to stabilize a beach which provides protection to the coast.
This book provides the most up-to-date technical advances on the design and construction of coastal...
Management of the Effects of Coastal Storms
Policy, Scientific and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
A large part of the world’s coastlines consists of sandy beaches and dunes that may undergo dramatic changes during storms. Extreme storm events in some cases dominate the erosion history of the coastline and may have dramatic impacts on densely populated coastal areas. Policy, research and historical...
Terrestrial Water Cycle and Climate Change
Natural and Human-Induced Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Natural and Human-Induced Changes is a comprehensive volume that investigates the changes in the terrestrial water cycle and the natural and anthropogenic factors that cause these changes. This volume brings together recent progress and achievements in large-scale hydrological...
Pollution of the North Sea
An Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This preface is being written at a time of exceptional public interest in the North Sea, following media head lines on toxic algal blooms, the mass mortality of common seals, and concern over pollution levels. These headlines may suggest that pollution of the North Sea is a recent event. This is...
by Elke Ludewig
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Renewable energy resources now play an essential role in the energy supply debate, and especially a new interest in wind energy has resulted in the intensified construction of wind farms. Thanks to the growing demand for renewable energy, offshore wind farms (OWFs) are increasingly gaining in popularity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
What affects the oceans affects terra firma. Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions gathers the insights of more than 50 ocean and coastal science researchers exploring ocean components and their relationships, patterns, and trends over time and space. The book's 16 chapters feature geographic information...
by John P. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of equatorially-confined waves and currents in the ocean. Among the topics treated are inertial and shear instabilities, wave generation by coastal reflection, semiannual and annual cycles in the tropic sea, transient equatorial waves,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Cloud Computing in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences provides the latest information on this relatively new platform for scientific computing, which has great possibilities and challenges, including pricing and deployments costs and applications that are often presented as primarily business oriented....
by Leo H. Holthuijsen
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters describes the observation, analysis and prediction of wind-generated waves in the open ocean, in shelf seas, and in coastal regions with islands, channels, tidal flats and inlets, estuaries, fjords and lagoons. Most of this richly illustrated book is devoted to...
by Jean-Pierre Lefort
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Major structural features are used in this study to reconstruct the links which existed between North America, Europe and Africa before the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean. The synthesis of geophysical and geochemical data as well as geological observations allows the recognition of the original...