Marine Climate And Climate Change

Author : Ralf Weisse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540684913
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marine Climate and Climate Change written by Ralf Weisse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : M Debora Iglesias-rodriguez
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 178634744X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Of Marine Life In A Changing Ocean, The: The Fate Of Marine Organisms And Processes Under Climate Change And Other Types Of Human Perturbation written by M Debora Iglesias-rodriguez and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the state of our knowledge on the interactions between climate change and marine biota. It focusses broadly on the environmental stressors during the Anthropocene period; when human activities started to have a significant global impact on earth's geological imprint and ecosystems. This period of rapid change is accompanied by rising carbon dioxide levels, increasing global temperatures, loss of oxygen in aquatic systems, and the fast release of pollutants into the environment among many other environmental stressors originating from large scale human activities, such as widespread overfishing.The Future of Marine Life in a Changing Ocean starts by providing the reader with a brief background on fundamental concepts in ocean science and climate. It then moves on to a brief description of recent changes in marine chemistry such as ocean acidification, a decline in oxygen levels in the oceans, ocean warming, and marine pollution, with some examples of shifts in ecosystem diversity. The chapters discuss these topics in the context of how a changing ocean impacts ecosystem health, the biological carbon pump, the sequestration of carbon dioxide from the surface ocean into the deep sea, and the perceived notion of the ocean's unlimited resilience to maintain its role as a 'carbon reservoir'. Topics include threats to marine diversity, ecosystem function, latitudinal shifts in productivity and diversity, and changes in global cycling of elements such as carbon. It concludes with an analysis of the impact of climate change on food security.Written for undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers in the natural and social sciences, this book provides a science background to study environmental change in marine ecosystems as well as a science framework to study policy, marine law and the economics of climate change. This book is an essential read for anyone hoping to understand key challenges facing our oceans.

Author : Paul G. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108422489
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Ocean Governance written by Paul G. Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a multidisciplinary edited volume on policy dimensions of climate change for the world's oceans, for researchers, policymakers and activists.

Author : Ralf Weisse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783540860945
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marine Climate and Climate Change written by Ralf Weisse and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grégory Beaugrand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136462864
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marine Biodiversity, Climatic Variability and Global Change written by Grégory Beaugrand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodiversity loss in terrestrial environments associated with human activities has been appreciated as a major issue for some years now. What is less well documented is the effect of such activities, including climate change, on marine biodiversity. This pioneering book is the first to address this important but neglected topic, which is likely to be the key challenge for marine scientists in the near future. Using a multidisciplinary and a holistic approach, the book reveals how climatic variability controls biodiversity at time scales ranging from synoptic meteorological events to millions of years and at spatial scales ranging from local sites to the whole ocean. It shows how global change, including anthropogenic climate change, ocean acidification and more direct human influences such as exploitation, pollution and eutrophication may alter biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and regulating and provisioning services. The author proposes a theory termed the 'macroecological theory on the arrangement of life', which explains how biodiversity is organized and how it responds to climatic variability and anthropogenic climate change. The book concludes with recommendations for further research and theoretical development to identify oceanic areas in need of observation and gaps in current scientific knowledge. Many references and comparisons with the terrestrial realm are included in all chapters to better understand the universality of the relationships between biodiversity, climate and the environment. The book will serve as a textbook for all students and researchers of marine science and environmental change, but will also be accessible to the more general reader.

Author : Andres Hugo Arias
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482299445
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marine Pollution and Climate Change written by Andres Hugo Arias and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a broad overview of pollution issues facing climatic, economic, and legal globalization. Topics include changes in oceans from ancient times to the present, the importance of marine currents and changing climates, marine pollution linked to climate change (fossil fuels, global carbon dioxide, heavy metals, pesticides, plastics, emerging pollutants, and marine debris), global shipping and species invasion, global climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic environments, and regulatory responses to mitigate pollution and climate change in oceans.

Author : Geoffrey K. Vallis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691150281
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate and the Oceans written by Geoffrey K. Vallis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores climate and oceans, providing a look at the basics of climate, a descriptive overview of the oceans, a brief introduction to dynamics, and coverage of other related topics.

Author : Dorothée Herr
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 2831712017
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ocean and Climate Change written by Dorothée Herr and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2009 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J.J. Beukema
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400920032
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expected Effects of Climatic Change on Marine Coastal Ecosystems written by J.J. Beukema and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. J. Beukema, w. J. Wolff & J. J. W. M. Brouns Man is changing the biosphere at an ever increasing Netherlands ministery of Housing, Physical Planning rate. Several of these man-made changes are on a and Health (represented by Dr. G. P. Hekstra), chaired worldwide scale, such as the increase in atmospheric by Dr. w. J. Wolff (Research Institute for Nature concentrations of several gases. In particular the Management) and housed by the Netherlands In ongoing increase of the concentration of at stitute for Sea Research (N. I. O. Z. , represented by Dr. mospheric carbon dioxide, by excessive burning of J. J. Beukema). fossil fuels and forest destruction, is well The written versions of the presentations by 23 par documented. By the year 2050, CO levels will ticipants have been brought together in these pro 2 almost certainly be twice the pre-industrial concen ceedings of the Workshop. trations and this is expected to have far-reaching consequences. Direct effects include higher rates of The first paper, by G. P. HEKSTRA, explains how plant production (also in agriculture). Indirect effects trace gases affect UV-B radiation, alkalinity of the might be less favourable: by the intensified sea, rate of photosynthesis, and greenhouse warm 'greenhouse process' (to which several other gases ing.

Author : Tymon Zielinski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319142836
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impact of Climate Changes on Marine Environments written by Tymon Zielinski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the current discussion on global environmental changes by discussing modifications in marine ecosystems related to global climate changes. In marine ecosystems, rising atmospheric CO2 and climate changes are associated with shifts in temperature, circulation, stratification, nutrient input, oxygen concentration and ocean acidification, which have significant biological effects on a regional and global scale. Knowing how these changes affect the distribution and abundance of plankton in the ocean currents is crucial to our understanding of how climate change impacts the marine environment. Ocean temperatures, weather and climatic changes greatly influence the amount and location of nutrients in the water column. If temperatures and currents change, the plankton production cycle may not coincide with the reproduction cycle of fish. The above changes are closely related to the changes in radiative forcing, which initiate feedback mechanisms like changes in surface temperature, circulation, and atmospheric chemistry.