Coastal Ocean Observing

Platforms, Sensors and Systems

Jorge E. Corredor (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIV, 159 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-78351-2 (ISBN)

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This manual describes the wide range of electromechanical, electrochemical and electro-optical transducers at the heart of current field-deployable ocean observing instruments. Their modes of operation, precision and accuracy are discussed in detail. Observing platforms ranging from the traditional to the most recently developed are described, as are the challenges of integrating instrument suits to individual platforms. Technical approaches are discussed to address environmental constraints on instrument and platform operation such as power sources, corrosion, biofouling and mechanical abrasion. Particular attention is also given to data generated by the networks of observing platforms that are typically integrated into value-added data visualization products, including numerical simulations or models. Readers will learn about acceptable data formats and representative model products. The last section of the book is devoted to the challenges of planning, deploying and maintaining coastal ocean observing systems.

Readers will discover practical applications of ocean observations in diverse fields including natural resource conservation, commerce and recreation, safety and security, and climate change resiliency and adaptation. This volume will appeal to ocean engineers, oceanographers, commercial and recreational ocean data users, observing systems operators, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the field of ocean observing.

Jorge E. Corredor is a professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico. He has been an Associate Director at the Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System, and a member on the governing committee of the US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Association. He earned his masters in Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1972, and his Ph. D. in Oceanography at the University of Miami, Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) in 1978.

Chapter1. Introduction. Chapter2. Electronic sensors and instruments for ocean observing. Chapter3. Coastal ocean observing platforms. Chapter4. Environmental constraints to instrumental coastal ocean observing. Chapter5. Data telemetry, command signaling and platform positioning in coastal ocean observing. Chapter6. Numerical models for operational coastal ocean observing. Chapter7. Coastal ocean observing data quality assurance, data quality control, data validation, data bases and data presentation. Chapter8. Planning, implementation and operation of coastal ocean observing systems.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 159 p. 34 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	432 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
Schlagworte	Biogeochemical sensors • Coastal Sciences • Data Assimilation • Electromechanical and electrochemical transducers • Eulerian and Lagrangian methods • Field-deployable ocean observing instruments • Integrated coastal ocean observing systems • marine and freshwater sciences • Mobile and autonomous platforms • Sea bottom emplacements • Sea surface altimetry • Surface and profiling Lagrangian drifters • Terrestrial, static and polar orbit • Virtual buoys
ISBN-10	3-319-78351-3 / 3319783513
ISBN-13	978-3-319-78351-2 / 9783319783512
Zustand	Neuware