The Sea, Volume 13: The Global Coastal Ocean: Multiscale Interdisciplinary Processes

by Allan R. Robinson, Kenneth H. Brink

Overview

A continuing, comprehensive and timely survey of the state of knowledge of ocean science, this distinguished series provides an overview of research frontiers as ocean science progresses. Areas covered include physical, biological, and chemical oceanography, marine geology, and geophysics and the interactions of the oceans with the atmosphere, the solid earth, and ice. Because ocean science is evolving so rapidly, straining the boundaries of traditional sub-disciplines, interdisciplinary topics have a special place in this series—including those topics related to the application of ocean science, for example, to ocean technology, marine operations, and the resources of the sea. As a treatise on advances and new developments, each topical volume starts with fundamentals and covers recent progress, so as to provide a balanced account of how oceanography is evolving.

Previous volumes (1-12) in the series are now available from Harvard University Press.

In the manifold, multidisciplinary efforts of science to understand and manage our planet, contemporary ocean science plays an essential role. Volumes 13 and 14 of the series The Sea focus on two of the most important components in the interdisciplinary field of ocean science today—the coastal ocean and its interactions with the deep sea, and coupled physical-biogeochemical and ecosystem dynamics.

Comprehensive, definitive studies, these volumes chart the real progress being made by ocean scientists in achieving lasting scientific understanding; specifically, they address issues surrounding significant applications—for coastal regions and in general—such as: the development of monitoring and prediction systems; functionality and stability of ecosystems; eutrophication; harmful algae blooms; habitat modification; and regime shift.

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 encourage and facilitate coastal and shelf ocean sciences and technology on a global basis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674015265
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	09/15/2005
Series:	The Sea , #13
Pages:	1062
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 2.25(d)

About the Author

Allan R. Robinson was Gordon McKay Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Recognized as a pioneer and leading expert in modern interdisciplinary ocean dynamics and ocean prediction, he contributed significantly to the techniques for the assimilation of multiscale data into ocean forecasting models and chairs the IOC/UNESCO COASTS program.

Kenneth Brink is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Physical Oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is a world leader in coastal and shelf dynamics and the coupling between shelf and deep ocean circulation. He is past president of The Oceanography Society.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Contributors

External Reviewers

Part 1. Perspective

1. Interdisciplinary Multiscale Coastal Dynamical Processes and Interactions
Allan R. Robinson, Kenneth H. Brink, Hugh W. Ducklow, Richard A. Jahnke and Brian J. Rothschild

2. Coastal Physical Processes Overview
Kenneth H. Brink

3. Multiple Scales in Space and Time
Brian J. Rothschild

Part 2. Sediment, Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Dynamics and Interactions

4. Recent Advances in Fine-Grained Sediment-Transport Processes on the Continental Shelf
Andrea S. Ogston, Richard W. Sternberg and Charles A. Nittrouer

5. Organic Matter in Coastal Marine Sediments
Susan M. Henrichs

6. Transport Processes and Organic Matter Cycling in Coastal Sediments
Richard A. Jahnke

7. Boundary Exchanges in the Global Coastal Margin: Implications for the Organic and Inorganic Carbon Cycles
Fred T. Mackenzie, Andreas J. Andersson, Abraham Lerman and Leah May Ver

8. Circulation, Mixing and the Distribution of Remineralized Nutrients
Larry P. Atkinson, John M. Huthnance and Jose Luis Blanco

9. The Biogeochemistry of Carbon Dioxide in the Coastal Oceans
Hugh W. Ducklow and S. Leigh Mccallister

10. Ecosystem Types and Processes
Daniel M. Alongi

11. The Role of Sediments in Shelf Ecosystem Dynamics
Jack J. Middelburg and Karline Soetaert

12. Dynamics and Interactions of Autotrophs, Light, Nutrients and Carbon Dioxide
Trevor Platt, Richard Geider, Antoine Sciandra, Claire Copin-Montegut, Heather Bouman and Shubha Sathyendranath

13. Diagnosis and Prediction of Variability in Secondary Production and Fish Recruitment Processes: Developments in Physical-Biological Modeling
Jeffrey A. Runge, Peter J. S. Franks, Wendy C. Gentleman, Bernard A. Megrey, Kenneth A. Rose, Francisco E. Werner and Bruno A. Zakardjian

14. Processes and Patterns of Interactions in Marine Fish Populations: An Ecosystem Perspective
Philippe Cury, Pierre Freon, Coleen L. Moloney, Lynne Shannon and Yunne-Jai Shin

15. The Biogeochemistry of Organic Chemicals of Environmental Concern in the Coastal Oceans
John Farrington

Part 3. Multiple Time Scales of Variabilities

16. Biological Consequences of Interannual to Multidecadal Variability
Francisco P. Chavez

17. Extreme Events Transporting Sediment Across Continental Margins: The Relative Influence of Climate and Tectonics
Jeffrey D. Parsons and Charles A. Nittrouer

18. Long Term Sea Level Changes and Their Impacts
Philip L. Woodworth, Jonathan M. Gregory and Robert J. Nicholls

Part 4. Scientific Issues for Applications

19. Overview of Science Requirements
Thomas C. Malone, Tony Knap and Michael J. Fogarty

20. Functional Diversity and Stability of Coastal Ecosystems
John H. Steele and Jeremy S. Collie

21. Eutrophication
Nancy N. Rabalais

22. Harmful Algal Blooms: Keys to the Understanding of Phytoplankton Ecology
Adriana Zingone and Tim Wyatt

23. Habitat Modification
Michel J. Kaiser, Stephen J. Hall and David N. Thomas

24. Regime Shifts
Andrew Bakun

Index