Marine climate and climate change: storms, wind waves and storm surges

Marine environmental conditions such as storms, storm surges and wave heightsare directly experienced by, for example, off-shore operations or coastal populations. The authors review and bring together the state-of-the-art and present day knowledge about historical changes, recent trends and concepts on how marine environmental conditions may change in the future as well as discuss models and data problems. Provides a comprehensive description of methods and concepts on which modern climate change reconstructions and plausible future scenarios are built upon Focuses on changes in the marine environment Storms, storm surges ocean waves and climate change are addressed in a comprehensive manner and put into a common framework INDICE: Climate and Climate Variability; Marine Weather Phenomena; Storms,Waves and Storm Surges; Modelling the Marine Environment; How to determine long-term changes of the Marine Climate; Past and Future; Changes of Wind, Wavesand Storm Surges; Technical Annex; Index.

• ISBN: 978-3-540-25316-7
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés