Oceanography category: 437 books
The Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean
Structure, Dynamics and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
The rationale for publishing a second edition of this monograph is that this area of research continues to show remarkable advancement. The new generation of synthetic aperture radar satellites has provided unprecedented spatial resolution of sea surface features. In addition, satellites to measure...
by Lakshmi H. Kantha, Carol Anne Clayson
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Oceans play a pivotal role in our weather and climate. Ocean-borne commerce is vital to our increasingly close-knit global community. Yet we do not fully understand the intricate details of how they function, how they interact with the atmosphere, and what the limits are to their biological productivity...
Oceanic Whitecaps
And Their Role in Air-Sea Exchange Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Physics of Lakes
Volume 3: Methods of Understanding Lakes as Components of the Geophysical Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The ongoing thread in this volume of Physics of Lakes is the presentation of different methods of investigation for processes taking place in real lakes with a view to understanding lakes as components of the geophysical environment. It is divided into three parts. Part I is devoted to numerical modeling...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Preface This book is the culmination of a workshop jointly organized by NATO and CEC on Climate-Ocean Interaction which was held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University during 26-30 September 1988. The objective of the ARW was to assess the current status of research on climate-ocean interaction,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Estuaries are of high socioeconomic importance with twenty-two of the thirty-two largest cities in the world located on river estuaries. Estuaries bring together fluxes of fresh and saline water, as well as fluvial and marine sediments, and contain high biological diversity. Increasingly sophisticated...
by Chih-Pei Chang, Michael Ghil, Mojib Latif;John M Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
This book focuses on two major challenges in the climate sciences: 1) to describe the decadal-to-centennial variations in instrumental and proxy records; and 2) to distinguish between anthropogenic variations and natural variability. The National Taiwan University invited some of the world's leading...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
During the 1980's a wealth of information was reported from field and laboratory experiments in order to validate andlor modify various aspects of the surface layer Monin-Obukhov (M-O) similarity theory for use over the sea, and to introduce and test new concepts related to high resolution flux magnitudes...
Tropical Meteorology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
This book is designed as an introductory course in Tropical Meteorology for the graduate or advanced level undergraduate student. The material within can be covered in a one-semester course program. The text starts from the global scale-view of the Tropics, addressing the zonally symmetric and asymmetric...
Analysis of SAR Data of the Polar Oceans
Recent Advances
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is a collection of the most recent and significant research on algorithms for the analysis of polar sea-ice SAR data. All algorithms are implemented and tested. One chapter is from the Alaskan SAR Facility, the major NASA archive of polar SAR data and a source of many SAR analysis algorithms,...
Remote Sensing Advances for Earth System Science
The ESA Changing Earth Science Network: Projects 2011-2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
This book presents cutting-edge remote sensing research, outlining the advanced use of European Space Agency (ESA) satellite data in the context of climate change. The ESA, through its Support to Science Element (STSE) Programme, funds a network of young post-doc scientists pursuing 2-year cutting-edge...
The Mediterranean Sea
Temporal Variability and Spatial Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Surface, intermediate, and deep-water processes and their interaction in time and space drive the major ocean circulation of the Mediterranean Sea. All major forcing mechanisms, such as surface wind forcing, buoyancy fluxes, lateral mass exchange, and deep convection determining the global oceanic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Remote Sensing of the Changing Oceans is a comprehensive account of the basic concepts, theories, methods and applications used in ocean satellite remote sensing. The book provides a synthesis of various new ideas and theories and discusses a series of key research topics in oceanic manifestation...
Cretaceous Sea Level Rise
Down Memory Lane and the Road Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Cretaceous Sea Level Rise delves into the question of whether the observed short-term sea-level changes are regional (tectonic) or global (eustatic) and determines their possible relation to climate cycles; to assess the role of feedback mechanisms, i.e. thermal expansion/contraction of seawater,...