Sea-level research: a manual for the collection and evaluation of data - A manual for the collection and evaluation of data (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	1986
Editors:	O. Van De Plassche
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	618
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
ISBN-13:	978-9401083706
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > Oceanography (seas) Promotions
LSN:	9401083703
Barcode:	9789401083706

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