Climate to a Fish Sandwich: Why We Study the Ocean’s Circulation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This book addresses why just about everything that we experience on Earth depends upon the ocean circulation, the movement of the ocean water.

Produktinformation

Introduction.- 1.The Global Ocean Circulation and Climate.- 2. Additional Aspects of the Global Ocean Circulation.- 3. The Global Ocean Circulation and Ecology.- 4. The Coastal Ocean: How it is Driven.- 5. Estuaries: Where the Rivers Meet the Sea.- 6. Sea Level: Why it Goes Up, Down and Where Might it be Heading.- 7. Waves of all Sizes.- 8. Sea Level Extremes by Tsunamis.- 9. Sea Level Extremes by Hurricane Storm Surge.- 10. The Air-Sea Interactions that Determine Water Temperature.- 11. Florida Red Tides.- 12. Natural Climate Variability: Some Mechanisms and What We are Just Beginning to Learn.- 13. Alternative Energy Generation from the Ocean: What May or not be Feasible and Why.- 14. Why Grouper Sandwiches are Abundant on Florida’s West Coast.- 15.Epilog.