Oceanography category: 437 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
This book presents a systemic view of the diversity of pressures and impacts produced by climate change and human actions. Erosion of biodiversity by changing ocean chemistry, the intensification of global change raises the problem of the adaptation of living resources.
Land uses induce ecological...
by Patrick Prouzet
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This volume provides various examples and dimensions, chemical, biological, climatic, or related to extreme (hazards). It describes, by reciprocity, the vulnerability of ecosystems, resources, heritage, human health and, consequently, economic and social sectors. it considers climate scenarios and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The vulnerability of socio-ecosystem combines the probability of exposure to natural or anthropogenic pressure, sensitivity and resilience. This book presents a systemic view of the diversity of pressures and impacts produced by climate change and human actions. Erosion of biodiversity by changing...
The Ocean Basins and Margins
Volume 7A The Pacific Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Palaeoclimatic Research and Models
Report and Proceedings of the Workshop held in Brussels, December 15–17, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Palaeoclimatology is presently experiencing a period of rapid growth of techniques and concepts. Studies of earth's past climates ryrovide excellent opportunities to examine the interactions between the atmosrhere, oceans, cryosphere and the land surfaces. Thus, there is a growing recognition of the...
Coastal Zone Management
Global Perspectives, Regional Processes, Local Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Coastal Zone Management: Global Perspectives, Regional Processes, Local Issues brings together a vast range of interdisciplinary data on coastal zones in a concise, yet exhaustive format that will be useful to students, researchers, and teachers. The book contains several focused sections, all of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Measuring sea-level change – be that rise or fall – is one of the most pressing scientific goals of our time and requires robust scientific approaches and techniques. This Handbook aims to provide a practical guide to readers interested in this challenge, from the initial design of research approaches...
Tsunami
To Survive from Tsunami
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
The book is organized into two parts: the first part covers (i) the precious lessons obtained from recent actual tsunami disasters including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, (ii) fundamental knowledge of tsunami for our survival, and (iii) concludes the...
by M. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The support of subsea oil and gas production operations involves the use of many underwater work systems. Divers can be used for support tasks in water depths to 300 m, but at more extreme depths operations become restrictively expensive and the efficiency of task performance is reduced. Remote controlled...
Gorda Ridge
A Seafloor Spreading Center in the United States’ Exclusive Economic Zone Proceedings of the Gorda Ridge Symposium May 11–13, 1987, Portland, Oregon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Gorda Ridge presents a primarily technical summary of recent advances in seafloor research related to mineral exploration of the only seafloor spreading center within the United States' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Spreading centers are known to be the locus of hydrothermal activity and to host...
by R.S. Bortkovskii
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Scientists investigating the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere now believe that the drag coefficient, and the coefficients of heat transfer and moisture transfer at the sea surface, all increase with an intensification of the wind, reaching high values during a storm. This belief is...
Geheimnisvolle Ozeane
Mysterien der Meere, Geisterschiffe und maritime Rätsel
Language: German
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Seit Anbeginn der Menschheit ist der Mensch vom Meer fasziniert, so voller Geheimnisse und Rätsel, die der Tiefe entsteigen. Dieses Buch greift einige dieser Rätsel und Geheimnisse auf, um etwas Licht in die Dunkelheit der Tiefe zu bringen. Weshalb gelingt es nicht, trotz modernster Technik, Wesen...
Hyrdoacoustic Ocean Exploration
Theories and Experimental Application
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The only book that offers a comprehensive and fully up-to-date coverage of hydroacoustic ocean exploration, this work deals with the diagnostics of non-uniformities in a water medium using the hydroacoustic parametric antenna. The non-uniformities of the water medium in the study are of geometrically...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
A wide variety of marginal basins, ranging from polar to equatorial regions, and a few sizeable enclosed basins, can all be included among the Asian Seas. The Arctic Ocean shelf seas off Siberia; the sheltered basins along the Pacific Ocean’s western rim; the coastal seas of the northernmost Indian...