LEADER 03343nam 22006015 450 001 9910983350603321 005 20250219115236.0 010 $a9783031775925 010 $a3031775929 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-77592-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31915075 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31915075 035 $a(CKB)37663522800041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-77592-5 035 $a(OCoLC)1503841203 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937663522800041 100 $a20250219d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aClimate to a Fish Sandwich: Why We Study the Ocean?s Circulation /$fby Robert Weisberg 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (244 pages) 311 08$a9783031775918 311 08$a3031775910 327 $aIntroduction -- 1.The Global Ocean Circulation and Climate -- 2. Additional Aspects of the Global Ocean Circulation -- 3. The Global Ocean Circulation and Ecology -- 4. The Coastal Ocean: How it is Driven -- 5. Estuaries: Where the Rivers Meet the Sea -- 6. Sea Level: Why it Goes Up, Down and Where Might it be Heading -- 7. Waves of all Sizes -- 8. Sea Level Extremes by Tsunamis -- 9. Sea Level Extremes by Hurricane Storm Surge -- 10. The Air-Sea Interactions that Determine Water Temperature -- 11. Florida Red Tides -- 12. Natural Climate Variability: Some Mechanisms and What We are Just Beginning to Learn -- 13. Alternative Energy Generation from the Ocean: What May or not be Feasible and Why -- 14. Why Grouper Sandwiches are Abundant on Florida?s West Coast -- 15.Epilog. 330 $aThis book addresses why just about everything that we experience on Earth depends upon the ocean circulation, the movement of the ocean water. Intended for a general lay-person audience, or as a non-science major undergraduate text, the book explains (in a non-mathematical manner) how the ocean circulation and the ocean?s interactions with the atmosphere provides the basic underpinnings for global climate and ecology. It then launches into more specific topics of societal relevance (e.g., how the coastal ocean and estuaries work, sea level variations, ocean waves and extreme tsunamis, hurricane storm surge and wave damage, how ocean temperatures change seasonally, harmful algal blooms, alternative energy potential and fish recruitment). Whereas some of these applications have a Florida, USA emphasis, all of them are equally applicable to coastal regions elsewhere. 606 $aEcology 606 $aEcology 606 $aOceanography 606 $aClimatology 606 $aEnvironmental Sciences 606 $aBiooceanography 606 $aClimate Sciences 615 0$aEcology. 615 0$aEcology. 615 0$aOceanography. 615 0$aClimatology. 615 14$aEnvironmental Sciences. 615 24$aBiooceanography. 615 24$aClimate Sciences. 676 $a333.7 700 $aWeisberg$b Robert$0568677 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910983350603321 996 $aClimate to a Fish Sandwich: Why We Study the Ocean?s Circulation$94316847 997 $aUNINA