Overview
- Provides a thorough introduction to Integrated Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (ICOOS)
- Sheds new light on materials and devices that have made observation of several inaccessible variables possible
- Explains the functionality, practicality and challenges of using sensors
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Integrated coastal ocean observing systems
- Virtual buoys
- Electromechanical and electrochemical transducers
- Field-deployable ocean observing instruments
- Sea bottom emplacements
- Mobile and autonomous platforms
- Surface and profiling Lagrangian drifters
- Terrestrial, static and polar orbit
- Biogeochemical sensors
- Sea surface altimetry
- Eulerian and Lagrangian methods
- Data assimilation
- coastal sciences
- marine and freshwater sciences
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jorge E. Corredor earned a M.Sc. degree in Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1972, and a Ph. D. in Oceanography at the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) in 1978. He served as professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico for a period of 38 years, holding the Chair of Chemical Oceanography. He served also as member of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research of the International Council for Science (ICSU), of the Ocean Studies Board of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, of the Board of Directors of the US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Association and as Associate Director of the Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coastal Ocean Observing
Book Subtitle: Platforms, Sensors and Systems
Authors: Jorge E. Corredor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78352-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78351-2Published: 11 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08684-8Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78352-9Published: 30 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 159
Number of Illustrations: 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oceanography, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Coastal Sciences, Simulation and Modeling, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Measurement Science and Instrumentation