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

by Allan R. Robinson, Kenneth H. Brink

Overview

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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:	9780674021174
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	09/30/2006
Series:	The Sea , #14
Pages:	810
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.75(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 14B: The Global Coastal Ocean: Interdisciplinary Regional Studies and Syntheses,
The Coasts of Africa, Europe, Middle East, Oceania and Polar Regions

20. The Coastal Oceans of South-Eastern Africa
Johann R. E. Lutjeharms

21. Variability of the Benguela Current System
John G. Field and Frank A. Shillington

22. A Note On Coastal Upwellings and Fisheries in the Gulf of Guinea
Claude Roy

23. Oceanography and Fisheries of the Canary Current/Iberian Region of the Eastern North Atlantic
Javier Aristegui, Xose A. Alvarez-Salgado, Eric D. Barton, Francisco G. Figueiras, Santiago Hernandez-Leon, Claude Roy and Antonio M. P. Santos

24. The Bay of Biscay: the Encountering of the Ocean and the Shelf
Alicia M. Lavin, Luis Valdes, Francisco Sanchez, Pablo Abaunza, Andre Forest, Jean Boucher, Pascal Lazure and Anne-Marie Jegou

25. Interdisciplinary Studies in the Celtic Seas
Jonathan Sharples and Patrick M. Holligan

26. The Baltic and North Seas: A Regional Review of Some Important Physical-Chemical-Biological Interaction Processes
Johan Rodhe, Paul Tett, and Fredrik Wulff

27. Iceland, Faroe and Norwegian Coasts
Eilif Gaard, Astthor Gislason and Webjorn Melle

28. Laptev and East Siberian Seas
Sergey V. Pivovarov, Jens A. Holemann, Heidemarie Kassens, Dieter Piepenburg and Michael K. Schmid

29. Ecosystem of the Barents and Kara Seas, Coastal Segment
Mikhail Yu. Kulakov, Vladimir B. Pogrebov, Sergey F. Timofeyev, Natalia V. Chernova and Olga A.Kiyko

30. Physical Forcing of Ecosystem Dynamics On the Bering Sea Shelf
Phyllis J. Stabeno, George L. Hunt, Jr., Jeffrey M. Napp and James D. Schumacher

31. Oceanography of the Northwest Passage
Fiona A. McLaughlin, Edward C. Carmack, R. Grant Ingram, William J. Williams and Christine Michel

32. The Physical, Sedimentary and Ecological Structure and Variability of Shelf Areas in the Mediterranean Sea
Nadia Pinardi, Marco Zavatarelli, Enrico Arneri, Alessandro Crise, and Mariangela Ravaioli

33. Physical and Biogeochemical Characteristics of the Black Sea
Temel Oguz, Suleyman Tugrul, A. Erkan Kideys, Vedat Ediger and Nilgun Kubilay

34. Seas of the Arabian Region
Claudio Richter and Ahmad Abuhilal

35. Interactions Between Physical, Chemical, Biological, and Sedimentological Processes in Australia's Shelf Seas
Scott A. Condie and Peter T. Harris

36. New Zealand Shelf Region
Janet M. Bradford-Grieve, P. Keith Probert, Keith B. Lewis, Philip Sutton, John Zeldis and Alan R. Orpin

37. Oceanographic Influences On Antarctic Ecosystems: Observations and Insights from East Antarctica (0 to 150E)
by Stephen Nicol, Anthony P. Worby, Peter G. Strutton and Thomas W. Trull