Preventive Methods for Coastal Protection
Towards the Use of Ocean Dynamics for Pollution Control
Editors: Soomere, Tarmo, Quak, Ewald (Eds.)
Free Preview- Detailed description of a novel low-cost technology for preventive mitigation of environmental impact of offshore activities
- Innovative quantification of the offshore through the analysis of properties of current-driven transport in several semi-enclosed seas
- Applications of sophisticated topics and complicated methods in fluid dynamics and modeling presented in a tutorial style
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- About this book
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The aim of the book is to present for non-specialist researchers as well as for experts a comprehensive overview of the background, key ideas, basic methods, implementation details and a selection of solutions offered by a novel technology for the optimisation of the location of dangerous offshore activities in terms of environmental criteria, as developed in the course of the BalticWay project. The book consists of two parts. The first part introduces the basic principles of ocean modeling and depicts the long way from the generic principles to the practical modeling of oil spills and of the propagation of other adverse impacts. The second part focuses on the techniques for solving the inverse problem of the quantification of offshore areas with respect to their potential to serve as a source of environmental danger to vulnerable regions (such as spawning, nursing or also tourist areas). The chapters are written in a tutorial style; they are mostly self-contained and understandable for non-specialist researchers and students. They are carefully peer-reviewed by international experts. The goal was to produce a book that highlights all key steps, methods, models and data sets it is necessary to combine in order to produce a practically usable technology and/or decision support system for a particular sea region. Thus the book is useful not only as a description and a manual of this particular technology but also as a roadmap highlighting the complicated technical issues of ocean modeling for practical purposes. It describes the approaches taken by the authors in an understandable way and thus is useful for educational purposes, such as a course in industrially and environmentally relevant applications of ocean modeling.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Towards Mitigation of Environmental Risks
Pages 1-27
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Topography, Hydrography, Circulation and Modelling of the Baltic Sea
Pages 31-64
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Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics and Ocean Modelling
Pages 65-100
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Studying the Baltic Sea Circulation with Eulerian Tracers
Pages 101-129
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European Semi-enclosed Seas: Basic Physical Processes and Their Numerical Modelling
Pages 131-179
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Preventive Methods for Coastal Protection
- Book Subtitle
- Towards the Use of Ocean Dynamics for Pollution Control
- Editors
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- Tarmo Soomere
- Ewald Quak
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-00440-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-00440-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-00439-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-34333-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 442
- Number of Illustrations
- 33 b/w illustrations, 138 illustrations in colour
- Topics
