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SEA-LEVEL RESEARCH: A MANUAL FOR THE COLLECTION AND EVALUATION OF DATA
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| By: |
Orson van de Plassche (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£109.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9401083703 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789401083706 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
26 September, 2011 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986 |
| Pages: |
618 |
| Synopsis: |
An editorial by Wanless (1982), entitled "Sea level is rising - so what?", tells the case of an executive editor of a major city newspaper, who, when confronted with evi- dence for a recent sea-level rise, replied: "That just means the ocean is six inches deeper, doesn't it?". Whether his "so what?" attitude was real or put on to dike a threat of sensation, there is at present a wide and deepening interest in ongoing and future global sea-level change. This interest has grown along with the concern over global warming due to increasing levels of C02 and trace gases. A stage has been reached where investigators of climat- sea-level relationships call for long-term measurement programmes for ice-volume changes (using satellite altimetry) and changes in temperature and salinity of the oceans (ther- mal expansion). This manual, however, is primarily concerned with sea- level changes in the past, mainly since the end of the last glaciation. Its major objective is to help answer the ques- tion: "how?", which, of course, is little else but to assist in the gathering of fuel for the burning question: "why?"Good fuel, hopefully, for the less smoke and ashes, and the more heat and light produced by that fire, the better scientists are enabled to develop a quantitative under- standing of past, and hence of future, sea-level changes on different spatial and temporal scales. |
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biography |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Springer |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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