Sea Level Rise: History and Consequences (International Geophysics Series, V. 75) - Hardcover

Kearney, Michael S.; Leatherman, Stephen P.; Douglas, Bruce C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0122213459 ISBN 13: 9780122213458

Verlag: Academic Press Inc, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Sea Level Rise, History and Consequences includes a special emphasis on the evidence for historical sea level change; case studies are used to demonstrate the resulting consequences. A CD-ROM is included which contain tide gauge data and trends of relative sea level from the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level. The material on the CD-ROM is either in the form of text files, or web sites that can be opened by widely available web-browsers.

Sea level is expected to rise as much as 60-100 centimeters over the next century due to greenhouse-induced global warming -- or at least that is what the some scientists predict. However, the concept of sea level is extremely complex, which makes the prediction of sea level rise anything but certain. The reviewers are in consensus in enthusiastically endorsing this comprehensive book and CD-ROM treatment.

This book will be a comprehensive review of the subject using the data themselves (on CD-ROM) to illustrate the principles involved, rather than detailed mathematical treatments. The book should be readily accessible to upper division and first-year graduate students in the environmental sciences, geography, geology, and other interdisciplinary fields. Four pages (up to 16 pages) of color in the printed text.

The book will have wide appeal. It will be read by geologists, geophysicists, climatologists, oceanographers, meteorologists, environmental scientists, geomorphologists, coastal engineers, and policy makers in all of these fields.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Academic Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0122213459
• ISBN 13: 9780122213458
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Herausgeber: Douglas Bruce C., Kearney Michael S., Leatherman Stephen P.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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