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This new edition of Biological Oceanography has been greatly updated and expanded since its initial publication in 2004. It presents current understanding of ocean ecology emphasizing the character of marine organisms from viruses to fish and worms, together with their significance to their habitats and to each other. The book initially emphasizes pelagic organisms and processes, but benthos, hydrothermal vents, climate-change effects, and fisheries all receive attention. The chapter on oceanic biomes has been greatly expanded and a new chapter reviewing approaches to pelagic food webs has bee

Provides an historical review of the Law of the Sea, leading into two case studies that cover the scientific, social, political and legal consequences and implications of human interactions with a particular oceanographic environment.

Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) Oceanography has become an important and independent discipline, especially after World War II as the threat perceptions from hostile underwater platforms has been on a continuously rising trajectory worldwide. There is no doubt that till date, acoustic energy remains the only viable and most effective means to detect underwater objects. However, sound waves are highly susceptible to refraction, reflection, scattering, reverberation and absorption in the ocean medium. Among these, refraction is controlled by the 3D sound speed structure in the specific ocean region and reflection loss by the sea state and ocean bottom characteristics. Water quality parameters such as sediment concentration and suspended biological masses influence attenuation, scattering, reverberation and absorption. Oceanographic variability emerges from diurnal heating, seasonal changes, river discharges, etc. and are the most important environmental factors deciding the 3D sound speed structure in any given area in the ocean.

Introduction -- Large-scale, persistent nutrient fronts of the world ocean: Impacts on biogeochemistry -- Colored dissolved organic matter in frontal zones -- Contamination by persistent organic pollutants and related compounds in deep-sea ecosystems along frontal zones around Japan -- Major nutrient fronts in the northeastern Atlantic – from the subpolar gyre to adjacent shelves -- The Pacific-Atlantic front in the East Siberian Sea of the Arctic Ocean -- Fronts and gradients in the northeastern Baltic Sea: a review -- Lateral and vertical mixing in the chemical frontal zones: the Kuroshio nutrient stream -- Observations of the coastal oceanic fronts in the northern South China Sea -- Front-driven physical-biogeochemical-ecological interactions in the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem -- Microplastic transport in the South China Sea -- Lagrangian methods to study fronts and pathways of marine litter in tidal basins -- The role of fronts and eddies in accumulating and influencing floating macro and microplastic dispersal -- Fate of mercury in the Subarctic Front of the North Pacific -- Biogeochemical oceanography and sedimentology of the Macquarie Ridge region, SW Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean -- Biochemical aspects of fronts and eddies of the Mediterranean Sea -- Microbial community and environmental chemistry in the hypoxic zone of the Changjiang River Estuary.

Der Bericht beinhaltet folgende Themen: Übersicht über die Minenkriegführung, Ozeanographie und Minenkriegführung, Minenkriegführung und ozeanische Einflüsse, Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse. Schwerpunkt der Arbeit sind die amerikanischen Seestreitkräfte.

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