Acoustic Fish Reconnaissance

IL Kalikhman and KI Yudanov

Before fish studies can commence, researchers must first locate the target habitat. This is a time-consuming and expensive effort, especially in remote locations and nearly ....

Acoustic Sensing Techniques for the Shallow Water Environment

Inversion Methods and Experiments

Edited by A Caiti, NR Chapman, J-P Hermand and SM Jesus

Acoustic remote sensing of the ocean environment has seen a remarkable progress in the last ten-fifteen year as a result of an increasing understanding of the experimental ....

Coastal Dynamics

Willem T Bakker

Our world is constantly changing, governed by continuity, dynamic interactions and boundary conditions. For many coasts, the common denominators contributing to these ....

Ecological Geography of the Sea

Alan R Longhurst

Revised and updated to reflect the latest in oceanographic research. ....

Encyclopedia of the Oceans

Dorrik Stow

Clearly structured in two parts, dealing with the physical nature of oceans and the evolution and distribution of marine life, it covers all the major fields of ....

Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

James C McWilliams

Earth's atmosphere and oceans exhibit complex patterns of fluid motion over a vast range of space and time scales. These patterns combine to establish the climate in response to ....

The Gulf Stream

Bruno Voituriez

Amid contemporary scenarios of potential climatic catastrophes and global warming that might be imagined to bring a new ice age, the powerful image of the Gulf Stream rising ....

Hidden Depths

Atlas of the Oceans

Provides a detailed outline of the issues facing these vast areas of water that cover 71 per cent of the Earth's surface. The physical nature of the oceans, how man has explored ....

Introduction to Nearshore Hydrodynamics

Ib A Svendsen

This book is intended as an introductory textbook for graduate students and as a reference book for engineers and scientists working in the field of coastal engineering. ....

An Introduction to Ocean Turbulence

Stephen Thorpe

This textbook provides an introduction to turbulent motion occurring naturally in the ocean on scales ranging from millimetres to hundreds of kilometres. It describes ....

Light Absorption and Absorbents in Sea Waters

Bogdan, Dera, Jerzy Wozniak

This book provides a detailed description of light absorption and absorbents in seawaters with respect to provenance, region of the sea, depth of the occurrence and ....

Light Scattering by Particles in Water

Theoretical and Experimental Foundations

Miroslaw Jonasz and Georges Fournierm

Contents: 1. Introduction ....

Marine Biogeochemical Cycles

Rachael James

A very useful textbook. Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Biogeochemical Processes in Seawater 3 The accumulation of Deep-sea Sediments 4 Deep-sea Sediments and Palaeoceanography 5 ....

A New Focus on Groundwater-Seawater Interactions

Edited by W Sanford, C Langevin, M Polemio and P Povinec

Water and chemical fluxes across the sea floor provide an important linkage between terrestrial and marine environments. Oceanographers recognize that these fluxes may act ....

Numerical Modeling of Ocean Circulation

Robert N Miller

The modelling of ocean circulation is important not only for its own sake, but also in terms of the prediction of weather patterns and the effects of climate change. ....

Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics

Jorge L Sarmiento and Nicolas Gruber

Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics provides a broad theoretical framework upon which graduate students and upper-level undergraduates can formulate an understanding of the processes ....

Polynyas

Windows to the World

Edited by Walker Smith and David Barber

Polynyas are relatively ice-free regions when compared to the areas around them, and have been suggested as being foci for energy transfer between the atmosphere and ocean, ....

Seamounts

Ecology, Fisheries and Conservation

Edited by Tony J Pitcher et al

Seamounts originate from volcanic islands that have sunk beneath the surface of the sea, mainly as a result of erosion, or geological disturbance. The ecological and ....

The Sea, Volume 14A: The Global Coastal Ocean - Interdisciplinary Regional Studies and Syntheses

Edited by Allan R Robinson and Kenneth Brink

Intended as companion volumes to Volumes 10 and 11 on physical coastal oceanography, these studies of the global coastal ocean continue the series' overall effort to ....

The Sea, Volume 14B: The Global Coastal Ocean: Interdisciplinary Regional Studies and Syntheses

Edited by Allan R Robinson and Kenneth Brink

Intended as companion volumes to Volumes 10 and 11. ....

Seabed Fluid Flow

The Impact on Geology, Biology and the Marine Environment

Alan Judd and Martin Hovland

Seabed fluid flow involves the flow of gases and liquids through the sea bed. Such fluids have been found to leak through the seabed into the marine environment in seas ....

Statistical Analysis of Ocean Waves and Other Environmental Data

Leon E Borgman et al

In this book, the statistics of ocean wave phenomena is developed from the viewpoints of individual wave properties, such as height, period, and direction; climatological ....