Preventive Methods for Coastal Protection Towards the Use of Ocean Dynamics for Pollution Control /

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 a...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Soomere, Tarmo. (Editor), Quak, Ewald. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00440-2
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • The Baltic Way Project
  • 1. Towards Mitigation of Environmental Risks: T.Soomere.- Part I Modelling the Underlying Dynamics: 2. Topography, Hydrography, Circulation and Modelling of the Baltic Sea: K. Myrberg and A. Lehmann.- 3. Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics and Ocean Modeling: T. Torsvik
  • 4. Studying the Baltic Sea Circulation with Eulerian Tracers: M. Meier and A. Hg̲lund.- 5. European Semi-Enclosed Seas: Basic Physical Processes and their Numerical Modeling: E. Stanev and Xi Lu.- 6. The Gulf of Finland, its Hydrography and Circulation Dynamics: K. Myrberg and T.Soomere .- Part II Lagrangian Dynamics and Inverse Problems: 7. TRACMASS - A Lagrangian Trajectory Model: K. Ds̲̲, J. Kjellson and B. Jn̲sson
  • 8. Evaluation and Tuning of Model Trajectories and Spreading Rates in the Baltic Sea Using Surface-Drifter Observations: J. Kjellson, K. Ds̲̲ and T.Soomere.- 9. Statistics of Lagrangian Transport Reveals Hidden Features of Velocity Fields: T. Soomere.- 10. Applications of the Inverse Problem of Pollution Propagation: T. Soomere
  • 11. Applications of an Oil Drift and Fate Model for Fairway Design: J.Murawski and J.W.Nielsen
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Index.