Oceanography category: 437 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Black Sea presently faces severe ecological disequilibrium due primarily to eutrophication and other types of contaminants, from atmospheric, river and landbased sources. Major contaminants include nutrients, pesticides, hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Among the most critical contemporary concerns...
Coastal Ocean Observing
Platforms, Sensors and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This manual describes the wide range of electromechanical, electrochemical and electro-optical transducers at the heart of current field-deployable ocean observing instruments. Their modes of operation, precision and accuracy are discussed in detail. Observing platforms ranging from the traditional...
by Yin-can YE
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Marine Geo-Hazards in China*,* the first book to focus specifically on potential marine geological hazards in China, includes 19 chapters with varying focus on key issues surrounding the topic.
Early chapters discuss the historical background, research progress, and geological environments...
Marine Protected Areas
Principles and techniques for management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have an important role in marine conserva tion programmes around the world. Although most have been established relatively recently when compared with protected areas on land, there is considerable expertise on their identification, setting up and management. Some techniques...
Defying Ocean's End
An Agenda For Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
If humankind were given a mandate to do everything in our power to undermine the earth's functioning, we could hardly do a better job than we have in the past thirty years on the world's oceans, both by what we are putting into it-millions of tons of trash and toxic materials-and by what we are taking...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domi nated by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column. A typical mid ocean horizontal scale is 100 km and a time scale is 100 days: these meso scale...
by Roald Otnes, Alfred Asterjadhi, Paolo Casari
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
This literature study presents an overview of underwater acoustic networking. It provides a background and describes the state of the art of all networking facets that are relevant for underwater applications. This report serves both as an introduction to the subject and as a summary of existing protocols, providing support and inspiration for the development of network architectures.
by Robert Michael Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Offshore Site Investigation
Proceedings of an international conference, (Offshore Site Investigation), organized by the Society for Underwater Technology, and held in London, UK, 13 and 14 March 1985
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
c. P. Wroth, Oxford University, UK I am grateful to the Organising Committee that were covered on the first day. First, we for the invitation to attempt to sum up the had Dr Riemersma talking about positioning proceedings. Summing up is not really the requirements, and it seemed to me to be an appropriate...
Zoning the Oceans
The Next Big Step in Coastal Zone Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
Ocean zoning allows states to restrict uses of their waters to protect sensitive environmental systems and to restrict certain types of uses in designated areas while encouraging other types of uses. Moreover, a state can use ocean zoning initiatives to extend its influence beyond state territorial...
The Relevance of Manganese in the Ocean for the Climatic Cycles in the Quaternary
Vorgelegt in der Sitzung vom 18. November 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is widely accepted that there is a relationship between ice volume and the solar insolation in summer in the northern hemisphere. The Earth's glacial cycles are driven by cyclic changes in the Earth's orbital elements. This conclusion is based on the strong coherence between the approx. 20000 and...
Dissolved Gas Concentration in Water
Computation as Functions of Temperature, Salinity and Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Aquacultural, oceanographic, and fisheries engineering, as well as other disciplines, require gas solubility data to compute the equilibrium concentration. These calculations, for example, can affect the output of aquacultural production or assist in environmental consulting. Until now, published...
Return to the Sea
The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Return to the Sea portrays the life and evolutionary times of marine mammals—from giant whales and sea cows that originated 55 million years ago to the deep diving elephant seals and clam-eating walruses of modern times. This fascinating account of the origin of various marine mammal lineages, some...
