Ralf Weisse

Marine Climate and Climate Change

Storms, Wind Waves and Storm Surges

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Marine environmental conditions such as storms, storm surges and wave heights are directly experienced by, for example, off-shore operations or coastal populations. The authors review and bring together the state-of-the-art and present day knowledge about historical changes, recent trends and concepts on how marine environmental conditions may change in the future as well as discuss models and data problems.

Produktdetails

• Springer Praxis Books
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-25316-7
• 2009
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9783540253167
• ISBN-10: 3540253165
• Artikelnr.: 14785451

Autorenporträt

Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch ist Direktor des Instituts für Küstenforschung, GKSS, Geesthacht und lehrt am Institut für Meteorologie der Universität Hamburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Weather and Sea; Climate Change; Modelling the Marine Environment and Climate Change; Storms; Waves; Storm Surges; Summary and Discussion; Bibliography; Glossary

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Climate and climate variability.- Marine weather phenomena.- Models for the marine environment.- How to determine long-term changes in marine climate.- Past and future changes in wind, wave, and storm surge climates.