Author: Murray D. DaileyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520322401
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1271
Book Description
Ecology of the Southern California Bight
Author: Murray D. DaileyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520322401
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1271
Book Description
Phytoplankton Pigment Concentrations and Patterns in the California Current as Determined by Satellite
Author: José Peláez-HudletPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artificial satellites in oceanography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Ocean Colour: Theory and Applications in a Decade of CZCS Experience
Author: Vittorio BaralePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401117918
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Optical remote sensing is of invaluable help in understanding the marine environment and its biogeochemical and physical processes. The Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS), which operated on board the Nimbus-7 satellite from late 1978 to early 1986, has been the main source of ocean colour data. Much work has been devoted to CZCS data processing and analysis techniques throughout the 1980s. After a decade of experience, the Productivity of the Global Ocean (PGO) Activity - which was established in the framework of the International Space Year 1992 (ISY '92) by SAFISY, the Space Agency Forum of ISY - sponsored a workshop aimed at providing a reference in ocean colour science and at promoting the full exploitation of the CZCS historical data in the field of biological oceanography. The present volume comprises a series of state-of-the-art contributions on theory, applications and future perspectives of ocean colour. After an introduction on the historical perspective of ocean colour, a number of articles are devoted to the CZCS theoretical background, on radiative transfer and in-water topics, as well as on calibration, atmospheric correction and pigment concentration retrieval algorithms developed for the CZCS. Further, a review is given of major applications of CZCS data around the world, carried out in the past decade. The following part of the book is centered on the application of ocean colour to the assessment of marine biological information, with particular regard to plankton biomass, primary productivity and the coupling of physical/biological models. The links between global oceanic production and climate dynamics are also addressed. Finally, the last section is devoted to future approaches and goals of ocean colour science, and to planned sensors and systems. The book is required reading for those involved in ocean colour and related disciplines, providing an overview of the current status in this field as well as stimulating the debate on new ideas and developments for upcoming ocean colour missions.
Dynamic Processes in the Chemistry of the Upper Ocean
Author: J.D. BurtonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468452150
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
The. Advanced Research Inst i tute (ARI) on Dynamic Processes in the Chemistry of the Upper OCean had its origins in discussions by the NATO Special Programme Panel on Marine Sciences during 1978 when a wide range of topics for future ARIs was being considered. What was then envisaged was a workshop on chemical aspects of the oceanic mixed layer, at which consider ation would be given to the inputs, cycling and removal of material, and the problems involved in the quantitative assessment of fluxes. It was realised that any attempt to model chemical processes would need the active collaboration of workers from other fields, especially physical oceano graphers concerned with air-sea interaction and turbulence, and biological oceano~raphers with expertise in primary productivity and the cycling of particulate and dissolved organic material. As plans for the ARI developed further a somewhat different emphasis emerged, focused on the question as to how chemists should set about observing an environment as variable and dynamic as the upper ocean and selecting the appropriate scales for the framework of measurements to study a particular process, especially in the light of current knowledge of physical processes of transport and mixing. It was plain that the capabil ity of physical oceanographic methods to resolve differences on small spatial and temporal scales is considerably ahead of the capabilities of biologists and chemists who rely upon discrete sampling and complex lab oratory manipulations in order to obtain most of their data.
Southern Sea Otters Translocation (CA,OR)
Author: Final Environmental Impact Statement for Translocation of Southern Sea Otters: without special title
Author: Earth Observing System: From pattern to process : the strategy of the Earth Obseving System
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Ecological Time Series
Author: Thomas M. PowellPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461517699
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
This book results from a summer school held at Cornell University in 1992. The participants were graduate students and postdoctoral researchers selected from a broad range of interests and backgrounds in ecological studies. The summer school was the second in a continuing series whose underlying aim and the aim of this volume-is to bring together the different methods and concepts underpinning terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecology. The first volume in the series focused on patch dynamics in these three ecologi cal sectors. Here we have endeavored to complement that volume by extending its comparative approach to the consideration of ecological time series. The types of data and the methods of collection are necessarily very different in these contrasting environments, yet the underlying concept and the technical problems of analysis have much in common. It proved to be of great interest and value to the summer school participants to see the differences and then work through to an appreciation ofthe generalizable concepts. We believe that such an approach must have value as well for a much larger audience, and we have structured this volume to provide a comparable reading experience.
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