Coastal Oceanography

A coastal sea area usually indicates a sea area between a continental shelfbreak with a water depth of about 200 m and the land shore. About 70 of globalfish re... » 

A coastal sea area usually indicates a sea area between a continental shelfbreak with a water depth of about 200 m and the land shore. About 70 of globalfish resources spend part of their life cycle in the coastal seas whichaccounts for 90 of marine biomass yield. Freshwater and nutrients from theland have a great influence on the coastal seas especially since more thanhalf the human population lives within 100 km of a coast. Chemical reactionsoccur there rapidly between substances from the land as they encountersubstances from the ocean. In terms of physics a coastal sea acts as aboundary layer and kinetic energy is actively exchanged there. But if coastaloceanography were to be summed up in a single sentence it would be the studythat quantitatively makes clear the material transport in the coastal seaarea. Because the physical chemical and biological processes relate to thematerial transport in the sea it can be said the coastal oceanography is agenuinely interdisciplinary study. This book clarifies the quantitativematerial transport processes in the coastal sea area mainly from a physicalviewpoint. «