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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Oceanographic Institutions of the World — Current Activity and Future Plan
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SIO-Present and Future
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Special Lecture
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Panel Discussions
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Summary and Closing Address
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About this book
The earth where we live is the only planet of our solar system that holds a mass of water we know as the ocean, covering 70.8% of the earth's surface with a mean depth of 3,800 m. When using the term ocean, we mean not only the water and what it contains, but also the bottom that supports the water mass above and the atmosphere on the sea surface. Modern oceanography thus deals with the water, the bottom of the ocean, and the air thereon. In addition, varied interactions take place between the ocean and the land so that such interface areas are also extended domains of oceanography. In ancient times our ancestors took an interest in nearshore seas, making them an object of constant study. Deep seas, on the other hand, largely remained an area beyond their reach. Modern academic research on deep seas is said to have been started by the first round-the-world voyage of Her Majesty's R/V Challenger I from 1872 to 1876. It has been only 120 years since the British ship leftPortsmouth on this voyage, so oceanography can thus be considered still a young science on its way to full maturity.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Directions of Oceanographic Research and Development
Editors: Noriyuki Nasu, Susumu Honjo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68225-7
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-68227-1Published: 14 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-68225-7Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 224
Topics: Oceanography