Fundamentals of Estuarine Physical Oceanography

Luiz Bruner de Miranda author Fernando Pinheiro Andutta author Björn Kjerfve author Belmiro Mendes de Castro Filho author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore

Published:14th Jul '18

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Fundamentals of Estuarine Physical Oceanography cover

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.

ISBN: 9789811097720

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 777g

480 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017