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- Tackles fundamental scientific problems, such as the role of the ocean in climate, fluids and life in the ocean crust, dynamics of oceanic lithosphere and imaging the Earth’s Leads the readers through the scientific challenges to be addressed
- Offers the technical solutions for the architecture of seafloor obsevatories
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Geophysical Sciences (GEOPHYS)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Present scientific challenges to be addressed using seafloor observatories
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Technical solutions for seafloor observatory architecture
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World-wide recent and ongoing projects and programmes
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About this book
The oceans cover 70% of the terrestrial surface, and exert a pervasive influence on the Earth's environment but their nature is poorly recognized. Knowing the ocean's role deeply and understanding the complex, physical, biological, chemical and geological systems operating within it represent a major challenge to scientists today. Seafloor observatories offer scientists new opportunites to study multiple, interrelated natural phenomena over time scales ranging from seconds to decades, from episodic to global and long-term processes.
Seafloor Observatories poses the important and apparently simple question, "How can continuous and reliable monitoring at the seafloor by means of Seafloor Observatories extend exploration and improve knowledge of our planet?" The book leads the reader through:
- the present scientific challenges to be addressed with seafloor observatories
- the technical solutions for their architecture
- an excursus on worldwide ongoing projects and programmes
- some relevant scientific multidisciplinary results
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- a presentation of new and interesting long-term perspectives for the coming years.
Current results will yield significant improvements and exert a strong impact not only on our present knowledge of our planet but also on human evolution.
Authors and Affiliations
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Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
Paolo Favali, Laura Beranzoli, Angelo De Santis
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: SEAFLOOR OBSERVATORIES
Book Subtitle: A New Vision of the Earth from the Abyss
Authors: Paolo Favali, Laura Beranzoli, Angelo De Santis
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11374-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-11373-4Published: 18 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50623-3Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-11374-1Published: 05 May 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 676
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 306 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Jointly published with Praxis Publishing Ltd., UK
Topics: Oceanography, Geophysics/Geodesy, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Freshwater & Marine Ecology