Sea-level science : understanding tides, surges, tsunamis and mean sea-level changes / by David Pugh, Philip Woodworth
- Author:
- Pugh, David, 1943-
- Published:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators:
- Woodworth, P. L.
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- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Background -- 1.2.Early ideas and observations -- 1.3.Tidal patterns -- 1.4.Meteorological and other non-tidal changes -- 1.5.Some definitions of common terms -- 1.6.Basic statistics of sea levels as time series -- 2.Sea-level measuring systems -- 2.1.The science of measurement -- 2.2.Datum definitions -- 2.3.Coastal instruments -- 2.4.Open-sea gauges -- 2.5.Data reduction -- 2.6.Data sources -- 3.Tidal forces -- 3.1.Gravitational attraction -- 3.2.The tidal forces: a fuller development -- 3.3.The Moon--Earth--Sun system -- 3.4.Tidal patterns -- 3.5.Extreme tidal forces -- 4.Tidal analysis and prediction -- 4.1.Non-harmonic methods -- 4.2.Harmonic analysis -- 4.3.Response analysis -- 4.4.Analysis of currents -- 4.5.Time zone conversion -- 4.6.Stability of tidal parameters -- 4.7.Tidal predictions -- 5.Tidal dynamics -- 5.1.The real world -- 5.2.Long-wave characteristics -- 5.3.Ocean tides -- 5.4.Shelf tides -- 5.5.Radiational tides -- 5.6.Internal tides -- 5.7.The yielding Earth -- 5.8.Are tides changing? -- 6.Shallow-water and coastal tides -- 6.1.Introduction: some observations -- 6.2.Hydrodynamic distortions -- 6.3.Representation by higher harmonics -- 6.4.Tidal currents -- 6.5.Tidal asymmetry -- 6.6.Tides in rivers -- 6.7.Energy budgets -- 7.Storm surges, meteotsunamis and other meteorological effects on sea level -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.The depth-averaged (2-D) equations -- 7.3.Storm surges -- 7.4.Statistics of tidal residuals -- 7.5.Seiches -- 7.6.Meteotsunamis -- 7.7.Wave set-up and surf beat -- 7.8.Air pressure-related changes of sea level in the world ocean -- 8.Tsunamis -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Why tsunamis happen -- 8.3.Tsunami propagation across the ocean -- 8.4.Coastal shoaling and runup -- 8.5.Tsunami signals in sea-level and bottom pressure data -- 8.6.Sea-level and related technologies for tsunami monitoring -- 8.7.Tsunami further reading -- 9.Spatial variations in sea level -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2.The International Terrestrial Reference Frame -- 9.3.The Global Positioning System -- 9.4.DORIS -- 9.5.Satellites and the Mean Sea Surface -- 9.6.Satellites and the geoid -- 9.7.Models of the MSS, geoid and MDT -- 9.8.A comment on epochs -- 9.9.Towards a global vertical datum -- 10.Mean sea-level changes in time -- 10.1.Introduction -- 10.2.Sea-level data -- 10.3.Mesoscale variability in sea level -- 10.4.The seasonal cycle of MSL -- 10.5.Pole tide -- 10.6.Nodal tide -- 10.7.Air pressure-related sea-level variability -- 10.8.Large-scale patterns of interannual variability -- 10.9.Long-term changes in sea level -- 10.10.Understanding sea-level change -- 10.11.Future rise in mean and extreme sea levels -- 11.Sea-level changes in time to do with the solid Earth -- 11.1.Introduction -- 11.2.Techniques for measuring vertical land movement -- 11.3.Glacial Isostatic Adjustment -- 11.4.Tectonic sea-level changes -- 11.5.Man-made crustal movements -- 11.6.Geophysical fingerprints of sea-level change -- 11.7.Coastal processes -- 12.Sea-level applications -- 12.1.Design parameters -- 12.2.Extreme conditions -- 12.3.Coastal defences -- 12.4.Lagoons and channels -- 12.5.Power generation -- 12.6.Emersion--submersion probabilities -- 12.7.Flood warning systems -- 12.8.Economics of coastal defences -- 13.Sea level and life -- 13.1.Introduction -- 13.2.The Moon and us -- 13.3.Intertidal life -- 13.4.Human development -- 13.5.The sea-level present -- 13.6.The sea-level future -- Appendix A Basic hydrostatic and hydrodynamic equations -- A.1.The hydrostatic equation -- A.2.Conservation of mass -- A.3.The horizontal momentum equations -- Appendix B Currents -- B.1.Analysis of currents -- B.2.Current dynamics -- Appendix C High and low water times and heights from harmonic constituents -- Appendix D Theoretical tidal dynamics -- D.1.Long progressive waves, no rotation -- D.2.Standing waves -- D.3.Long waves on a rotating Earth -- D.4.Co-tidal and co-amplitude lines -- Appendix E Legal definitions in the coastal zone.
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- ISBN:
- 9781139235778 (electronic bk.)
113923577X (electronic bk.)
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