US Southern Ocean JGOFS Program (AESOPS).
Author : Robert Frederick Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Antarctic Ocean
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Author : Robert Frederick Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Antarctic Ocean
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Author : Robert Frederick Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biogeochemical cycles
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Author : Robert F. Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Walker O. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Charles B. Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2012-04-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1118223187
This new edition of Biological Oceanography has been greatly updated and expanded since its initial publication in 2004. It presents current understanding of ocean ecology emphasizing the character of marine organisms from viruses to fish and worms, together with their significance to their habitats and to each other. The book initially emphasizes pelagic organisms and processes, but benthos, hydrothermal vents, climate-change effects, and fisheries all receive attention. The chapter on oceanic biomes has been greatly expanded and a new chapter reviewing approaches to pelagic food webs has been added. Throughout, the book has been revised to account for recent advances in this rapidly changing field. The increased importance of molecular genetic data across the field is evident in most of the chapters. As with the previous edition, the book is primarily written for senior undergraduate and graduate students of ocean ecology and professional marine ecologists. Visit www.wiley.com/go/miller/oceanography to access the artwork from the book.
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Chemical oceanography
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antarctica
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Author : Dan Lubin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540307850
The polar regions, perhaps more than any other places on Earth, give the geophysical scientist a sense of exploration. This sensibility is genuine, for not only is high-latitude ?eldwork arduous with many locations seldom or never visited, but there remains much fundamental knowledge yet to be discovered about how the polar regions interact with the global climate system. The range of opportunities for new discovery becomes strikingly clear when we realize that the high latitudes are not one region but are really two vastly di?erent worlds. The high Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, and is home to fragile ecosystems and unique modes of human habitation. The Antarctic is a frozen continent without regular human habitation, covered by ice sheets taller than many mountain ranges and surrounded by the Earth’s most forbidding ocean. When we consider global change as applied to the Arctic, we discuss impacts to a region whose surface and lower atmospheric temperatures are near the triple point of water throughout much of the year. The most consistent signatures of climate warming have occurred at northern high latitudes (IPCC, 2001), and the potential impacts of a few degrees increase in surface temperature include a reduction in sea ice extent, a positive feedback to climate warming due to lowering of surface albedo, and changes to surface runo? that might a?ect the Arctic Ocean’s salinity and circulation.
Author : Michael J.R. Fasham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642558445
Oceans account for 50% of the anthropogenic CO2 released into the atmosphere. During the past 15 years an international programme, the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), has been studying the ocean carbon cycle to quantify and model the biological and physical processes whereby CO2 is pumped from the ocean's surface to the depths of the ocean, where it can remain for hundreds of years. This project is one of the largest multi-disciplinary studies of the oceans ever carried out and this book synthesises the results. It covers all aspects of the topic ranging from air-sea exchange with CO2, the role of physical mixing, the uptake of CO2 by marine algae, the fluxes of carbon and nitrogen through the marine food chain to the subsequent export of carbon to the depths of the ocean. Special emphasis is laid on predicting future climatic change.
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Chemical oceanography
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