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

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 (1-13) 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:	9780674015272
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	09/30/2006
Series:	The Sea , #14
Pages:	840
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.25(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

Volume 14A: The Global Coastal Ocean: Interdisciplinary Regional Studies and Syntheses,
Pan-regional syntheses and the Coasts of North and South America and Asia

Foreword

Preface

Contributors

External Reviewers

Part 1. Panregional Interdisciplinary Overviews

1. Western Ocean Boundaries
Steven E. Lohrenz and Belmiro M. Castro

2. Eastern Ocean Boundaries Pan Regional
David L. Mackas, P. Ted Strub, Andrew C. Thomas and Vivian Montecino

3. Polar Ocean Coastal Boundaries Overview
R. Grant Ingram, Edward C. Carmack, Fiona A. McLaughlin and Stephen Nicol

4. Semi-Enclosed Seas, Islands and Australia Overview
Temel Oguz and SU Jilan

Part 2. Regional Interdisciplinary Oceanography

5. Oceanography of the Northwest Atlantic Continental Shelf
David W. Townsend, Andrew C. Thomas, Lawrence M. Mayer, Maura A. Thomas and John A. Quinlan

6. Regional Oceanography: Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico
Steven E. Lohrenz and Peter G. Verity

7. Structure and Function in the Ecosystems of the IntraAmericas Sea(Ias)
Elva Escobar Briones

8. Multidisciplinary Oceanographic Processes On the Western Atlantic Continental Shelf Between 4N and 34S
Belmiro M. Castro, Frederico P. Brandini, Ana Maria S. Pires-Vanin and Luiz B. Miranda

9. Coastal Oceanography of the Western South Atlantic Continental Shelf (33 to 55S)
Gerardo M. E. Perillo, M. Cintia Piccolo and Jorge Marcovecchio

10. Bio-Physical Interactions Off Western South America
Vivian Montecino, P. Ted Strub, Francisco Chavez, Andrew Thomas, Juan Tarazona, and Tim Baumgartner

11. Coastal Biogeochemical and Ecological Processes from the Eastern Tropical North Pacific to the Gulf of California
Juan Carlos Herguera

12. Interdisciplinary Oceanography of the Western North American Continental Margin: Vancouver Island to the Tip of Baja California
David L. Mackas

13. Bibliography On the Northeastern Pacific Continental Shelves
Thomas C. Royer

14. Eastern Asia, Kamchatka to Oyashio Region
Michio J. Kishi, Hiroshi Kawamura, Vradim V. Navrotsky and Osamu Isoguchi

15. Far Eastern Asiai/Kuroshio Region
Takashige Sugimoto and Michio J. Kishi

16. Interdisciplinary Physical and Biological Processes of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Japan/East Sea
Chang-Ik Zhang, Vladimir I. Radchenko, Takashige Sugimoto and Sangmin Hyun

17. Nutrient Dynamics of the China Seas: The Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea
Jing Zhang and SU Jilan

18. Monsoonal Forcing and Biogeochemical Environments of Outer Southeast Asia Seas
Kon-Kee Liu, Shenn-Yu Chao, John Marra and Anond Snidvongs

19. Coastal Biogeochemical Processes in the North Indian Ocean
S. Wajih, A. Naqvi, Pradip V. Narvekar, and Ehrlich Desa