Understanding the North Sea System - Hardcover

 
9780412554803: Understanding the North Sea System
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0412554801 ISBN 13: 9780412554803
Publisher: Chapman and Hall, 1993

Synopsis

The continental shelf seas have an importance out of proportion to the reatively small fraction of the area of the global ocean which they occupy. These shallow seas play and important role as the high energy boundary zones of the deep ocean where much of the ocean's tidal and wave energies are dissipated. The North Sea is an archetypal representative of such seas. This text brings the principal results from the North Sea Project which were presented at a discussion meeting organized by the Royal Society. It argues that we should understand and predict the processes of the North Sea in order to achieve a degree of rational management in the future, as environmental threats increase.

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...well balanced... and the concise format of chapters makes easy reading with references provided for a more thorough investigation. - Geological Magazine

Synopsis

The continental shelf seas have an importance out of proportion to the reatively small fraction of the area of the global ocean which they occupy. These shallow seas play and important role as the high energy boundary zones of the deep ocean where much of the ocean's tidal and wave energies are dissipated. The North Sea is an archetypal representative of such seas. This text brings the principal results from the North Sea Project which were presented at a discussion meeting organized by the Royal Society. It argues that we should understand and predict the processes of the North Sea in order to achieve a degree of rational management in the future, as environmental threats increase.

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Publisher
Chapman and Hall
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0412554801
ISBN 13 
9780412554803
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
176
Editor
Charnock H., Etc., Dyer K. R., Huthnance J. M., Liss P. S., Simpson J. H., Tett P. H.

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