Marine Climate and Climate Change - Storms, Wind Waves and Storm Surges

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

Marine climate change has an impact on storms, storm surges, and wave heights. These changes, in turn, have a dramatic effect on off-shore operations and coastal populations. This book brings together and reviews the history, recent trends, and theories on how climate change will affect the marine environment. Readers get a comprehensive description of the methods and concepts upon which modern climate change reconstructions and plausible future scenarios are built. The authors show how storms, storm surges, ocean waves, and climate change fit within a common framework. Consequences and implications for future off-shore operations and coastal defense are covered in detail.

Product details

• Authors: Hans von Storch, R. Weisse, Ralf Weisse
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2009
• EAN: 9783540253167
• ISBN: 978-3-540-25316-7
• No. of pages: 219
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 18 mm x 247 mm
• Weight: 549 g
• Illustrations: XX, 219 p. 16 illus. in color.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books; Environmental Sciences; Springer Praxis Books; Environmental Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; C, Climate Change, The environment, Earth and Environmental Science, Meteorology and climatology, Earth Sciences, Oceanography, Ocean Sciences, Earth System Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Earth Sciences, general, Atmospheric Sciences, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Oceanography (seas), Coast;Storm;Storm surge;Weather;Wind;climate change;marine