1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00077127

Autore

LANDER, Richard

Titolo

Journal d'une expédition entreprise dans le but d'explorer le cours et l'embouchure du Niger, ou relation d'un voyage sur cette rivière depuis Yaourie jusqu'à son embouchure / par Richard et John Lander ; Traduit de l'anglais par Mme Louise Sw.-Belloc

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Paulin, 1832

Descrizione fisica

3 v., c. di tav. ; 21 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

LANDER, John

Disciplina

916.604

Soggetti

Africa occidentale - Descrizioni e viaggi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910741176403321

Titolo

Preventive Methods for Coastal Protection : Towards the Use of Ocean Dynamics for Pollution Control / / edited by Tarmo Soomere, Ewald Quak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

9783319004402

3319004409

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 p.)

Disciplina

003.3

004

510

519.5

Soggetti

Mathematics - Data processing

Mathematical models

Computer simulation

Statistics

Environmental engineering

Biotechnology

Bioremediation

Oceanography

Computational Science and Engineering

Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics

Computer Modelling

Statistics in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology

Ocean Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Preface -- The Baltic Way Project -- 1. Towards Mitigation of Environmental Risks: T.Soomere -- Part I Modelling the Underlying



Dynamics: 2. Topography, Hydrography, Circulation and Modelling of the Baltic Sea: K. Myrberg and A. Lehmann -- 3. Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics and Ocean Modeling: T. Torsvik -- 4. Studying the Baltic Sea Circulation with Eulerian Tracers: M. Meier and A. Höglund -- 5. European Semi-Enclosed Seas: Basic Physical Processes and their Numerical Modeling: E. Stanev and Xi Lu -- 6. The Gulf of Finland, its Hydrography and Circulation Dynamics: K. Myrberg and T.Soomere  -- Part II Lagrangian Dynamics and Inverse Problems: 7. TRACMASS - A Lagrangian Trajectory Model: K. Döös, J. Kjellson and B. Jönsson -- 8. Evaluation and Tuning of Model Trajectories and Spreading Rates in the Baltic Sea Using Surface-Drifter Observations: J. Kjellson, K. Döös and T.Soomere -- 9. Statistics of Lagrangian Transport Reveals Hidden Features of Velocity Fields: T. Soomere -- 10. Applications of the Inverse Problem of Pollution Propagation: T. Soomere -- 11. Applications of an Oil Drift and Fate Model for Fairway Design: J.Murawski and J.W.Nielsen -- Concluding Remarks -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The aim of the book is to present for non-specialist researchers as well as for experts a comprehensive overview of the background, key ideas, basic methods, implementation details and a selection of solutions offered by a novel technology for the optimisation of the location of dangerous offshore activities in terms of environmental criteria, as developed in the course of the BalticWay project. The book consists of two parts. The first part introduces the basic principles of ocean modeling and depicts the long way from the generic principles to the practical modeling of oil spills and of the propagation of other adverse impacts. The second part focuses on the techniques for solving the inverse problem of the quantification of offshore areas with respect to their potential to serve as a source of environmental danger to vulnerable regions (such as spawning, nursing or also tourist areas). The chapters are written in a tutorial style; they are mostly self-contained and understandable for non-specialist researchers and students. They are carefully peer-reviewed by international experts. The goal was to produce a book that highlights all key steps, methods, models and data sets it is necessary to combine in order to produce a practically usable technology and/or decision support system for a particular sea region. Thus the book is useful not only as a description and a manual of this particular technology but also as a roadmap highlighting the complicated technical issues of ocean modeling for practical purposes. It describes the approaches taken by the authors in an understandable way and thus is useful for educational purposes, such as a course in industrially and environmentally relevant applications of ocean modeling.