Fundamentals of Estuarine Physical Oceanography

Description: Fundamentals of Estuarine Physical Oceanography Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Luiz Bruner de Miranda, Fernando Pinheiro Andutta, Bjoern Kjerfve, Belmiro Mendes de Castro Filho Format: Hardback Language: English Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore, Singapore Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore ISBN-13: 9789811030406, 978-9811030406 Synopsis This book provides an introduction to the complex system functions, variability and human interference in ecosystem between the continent and the ocean. It focuses on circulation, transport and mixing of estuarine and coastal water masses, which is ultimately related to an understanding of the hydrographic and hydrodynamic characteristics (salinity, temperature, density and circulation), mixing processes (advection and diffusion), transport timescales such as the residence time and the exposure time. In the area of physical oceanography, experiments using these water bodies as a natural laboratory and interpreting their circulation and mixing processes using theoretical and semi-theoretical knowledge are of fundamental importance. Small-scale physical models may also be used together with analytical and numerical models. The book highlights the fact that research and theory are interactive, and the results provide the fundamentals for the development of the estuarine research.

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