Oceanography category: 437 books
Global Change: Mankind-Marine Environment Interactions
Proceedings of the 13th French-Japanese Oceanography Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Based on the material presented at a conference organized by the Centre d’Océanologie of Marseille, held in 2008, this text covers a wealth of hot topics related to the way mankind interacts with the marine environment. With the state of our oceans and seas becoming an increasing source of concern...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This book provides contributions from leading experts on the integration of novel sensing technologies to yield unprecedented observations of coupled biological, chemical, and physical processes in the ocean from the macro to micro scale. Authoritative entries from experts around the globe provide...
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Fundamentals and Large-scale Circulation
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Fluid dynamics is fundamental to our understanding of the atmosphere and oceans. Although many of the same principles of fluid dynamics apply to both the atmosphere and oceans, textbooks tend to concentrate on the atmosphere, the ocean, or the theory of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD). This textbook...
Icebergs
Their Science and Links to Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Icebergs are a prime example of an environmental phenomenon that brings together multiple disciplines in the polar sciences, from the physics of calving and melting to the geology of their solid deposits and sea floor interactions. Icebergs are also increasingly seen to play key roles in past and...
by Boris W. Levin, Mikhail Nosov
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This second edition reflects significant progress in tsunami research, monitoring and mitigation within the last decade. Primarily meant to summarize the state-of-the-art knowledge on physics of tsunamis, it describes up-to-date models of tsunamis generated by a submarine earthquake, landslide, volcanic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
This revised and updated second edition details the vast progress that has been achieved in the understanding of the physical mechanisms of rogue wave phenomenon in recent years. The selected articles address such issues as the formation of rogue waves due to modulational instability of nonlinear...
The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary
Reconstruction of Material Budgets and Current Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The South Atlantic plays a critical role in the couplingofoceanic processes between the Antarctic and the lower latitudes. The Antarctic Ocean, along with the adjacent southern seas, is of substantial importance for global climate and for the distributionofwater masses because itprovides large regions...
Oceanic Migration
Paths, Sequence, Timing and Range of Prehistoric Migration in the Pacific and Indian Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Oceanic Migration studies the prehistoric peopling of the Pacific. It uses science and mathematics to expand the research base of Pacific prehistory and casts new light on this final human expansion. It explores the fundamental roles of oceanography and of global climate change in determining the...
by Job Dronkers
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
The book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the physical processes which, according to the present state of knowledge, determine the evolution of coastal systems and their response to human interventions. This response depends to a large degree on the self-organising properties of...
Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences
Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Research of Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Remote Sensing
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book integrates a wide range of subjects into a coherent purview of the status of coastal marine science. Designed for the professional or specialist in coastal science, oceanography, and related disciplines, this work will appeal to workers in multidisciplinary fields that strive for practical...
Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems
Biological-Physical Interactions in the Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The new edition of this widely respected text provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the effects of biological–physical interactions in the oceans from the microscopic to the global scale.
considers the influence of physical forcing on biological processes in a wide range of...
World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation
Volume II: The Indian Ocean to the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Second Edition, Volume Two: The Indian Ocean to the Pacific provides a comprehensive review of the environmental condition of the seas from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. Each chapter is written by experts in the field who provide historical overviews in...
World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation
Volume III: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Second Edition, Volume Three: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts covers global issues relating to our seas, including a biological description of the coast and continental shelf waters, the development and use of the coast, landfills and their effects,...
World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation
Volume I: Europe, The Americas and West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Second Edition, Volume One: Europe, The Americas and West Africa provides a comprehensive review of the environmental condition of the seas of Europe, the Americas and West Africa. Each chapter is written by experts in the field who provide historical overviews...