Changing Sea Levels - Pugh, David
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A textbook that explains the causes of potentially devastating changes in sea level.
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Flooding of coastal communities is one of the major causes of environmental disasters world-wide. This textbook explains at a basic level, how sea levels are affected by astronomical tides, by weather effects that generate extreme flooding events, and over the longer term by ocean circulation and climate trends. It also indicates how sea level changes are related to changing risks, coastal dynamics, geology and biology; and outlines some of the economic…mehr

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Short description/annotation
A textbook that explains the causes of potentially devastating changes in sea level.

Main description
Flooding of coastal communities is one of the major causes of environmental disasters world-wide. This textbook explains at a basic level, how sea levels are affected by astronomical tides, by weather effects that generate extreme flooding events, and over the longer term by ocean circulation and climate trends. It also indicates how sea level changes are related to changing risks, coastal dynamics, geology and biology; and outlines some of the economic and legal implications. Based on courses taught by the author in the UK and the USA, this book is aimed at undergraduate students at all levels, with the text developed in such a way that non-basic mathematics is confined to Appendices and a web site (http://publishing.cambridge.org/resources/0521532183/). Changing Sea Levels will also interest and inform professionals in many fields including hydrography, coastal engineering, geology, biology and also coastal planning and economics.

Table of contents:
Preface; Symbols; 1. Introduction and measurements; 2. Tidal forces and patterns; 3. Analysis and prediction; 4. Tidal dynamics; 5. Tides near the coast; 6. Weather and other effects; 7. Mean sea level; 8. Extreme sea levels; 9. Tidal influences; Appendix I. Tidal potential; Appendix II. Glossary; Appendix III. Further reading; Appendix IV. Answers to selected questions; Index.
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Autorenporträt
David Pugh has been a published comic strip artist and writer since 1976. He was the last artist to draw Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future in the Eagle comic. He has eight books still in print; Loner anthology (Rebellion 2019) three new Slaine anthologies, one Polish edition and one in German (Rebellion, August 2018), Neil Gaiman's Shadow Death (Papercutz, USA, 2016), Slaine: The King (2013), Slaine: Time Killer (2007) and writer and artist of Obvious Tactics (Black Library, 2002). Following eleven years on the Daily Mirror's Scorer newspaper football strip, he became a voluntary graphic designer for a Tibetan charity in Dharamsala, India. 2017 saw his essay published in Minds Wailing in Remembrance, an Indian tribute anthology to Tibetan monk Tenzin Delek who died in a Chinese prison.