Advances In Geosciences - Volume 18: Ocean Science (Os)

by Jianping Gan (Editor)

Overview

This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects of climate change, extreme weathers on the most populated regions and fastest moving economies in the world. Besides, these volumes also highlight original papers from many prestigious research institutions which are doing cutting edge study in atmospheric physics, hydrological science and water resource, ocean science and coastal study, planetary exploration and solar system science, seismology, tsunamis, upper atmospheric physics and space science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789812838131
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/02/2010
Series:	Advances in Geosciences , #18
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Editors v

Reviewers vii

Preface ix

Preface to OS Volume xi

Elevated Phytoplankton Biomass in Marginal Seas in the Low Latitude Ocean: A Case Study of the South China Sea Kon-Kee Liu Chun-Mao Tseng Tzu-Ying Yeh Li-Wen Wang 1

Numerical Simulation of Tropical Cyclone Intensity Using an Air-Sea-Wave Coupled Prediction System Lian Xie Bin Liu Huiqing Liu Changlong Guan 19

Coupled Data Assimilation for ENSO Prediction Dake Chen 45

A Non-Boussinesq Terrain-Following OGCM for Oceanographic and Geodetic Applications Y. Tony Song Richard Gross Xiaochun Wang Victor Zlotnicki 63

Tropical Pacific Upper Ocean Heat Content Variations and ENSO Predictability during the Period from 1881-2000 Youmin Tang Ziwang Deng 87

Salinity Variations in Water Column Due to Outflows Estimated by Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Xiao-Hai Yan Young-Heon Jo W. Timothy Liu Minhan Dai 109

A Two-Dimensional High-Resolution Model for Depth-Average Hydrodynamics Simulations in the Singapore Strait Oleksandr Nesterov Eng Soon Chan 135

Long Term Memory of Ocean Diffusion Process in West Coast of India Yuuki Yamamoto Makoto Kano Shoichiro Nakamoto 149

Dynamic Tsunami Generation Process Observed in the 2003 Tokachi-Oki, Japan, Earthquake Tatsuo Ohmachi Shusaku Inoue 159

Clarifying the Structure of Water Masses in East China Sea Using Low-Volume Seawater Measurement with Rare Earth Elements Li-Li Bai Jing Zhang 169

Estimation of Gas Hydrates and Free Gas Concentrations Using Seismic Amplitudes Across the Bottom Simulating Reflector Kalachand Sain Maheswar Ojha 181

Estimation of the Equatorial Pacific Salinity Field Using Ocean Data Assimilation Systems Y. Fujii S. Matsumoto M. Kamachi S. Ishizaki 197

Geographical Information System Applied to Geophysical Data to Study Gas Hydrate Michela Giustiniani Daniela Accettella Umberta Tinivella Maria F. Loreto F. Accaino 213

Correlation Between Geological Structures and Gas Hydrate Amount Offshore the South Shetland Island - Preliminary Results M. F. Loreto U. Tinivella F. Accaino M. Giustiniani 223