| Titre : |
Advance in coastal modeling |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Lakhan, V.C, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Elsevier |
| Année de publication : |
2003 |
| Importance : |
595 p. |
| Format : |
25 cm. |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-444-51149-2 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
551 Géologie, météorologie, hydrologie générale |
| Résumé : |
This book has the primary purpose of consolidating a comprehensive range of current coastal models and enlightening, timely review chapters to emphasize advances in significant areas of coastal modeling. The expected readership of senior students, academics, researchers, practicing professionals and all those interested in the modeling of coastal and oceanic processes and characteristics will obtain invaluable insights in scholarly research on coastal modeling.
To address the wide diversity of coastal models efforts have been made to present a book which is neither a narrowly specialized nor an all encompassing presentation on advances in coastal modeling. In choosing and organizing a representative selection of models from the broad spectrum of coastal models, critical decisions were required on what to include and what to exclude. Apart from considering the overall scope of the book, chapter selection was also aided by several criteria, in-cluding contents of an extensive coastal modeling database established in the late 1980's when I was first contracted to edit a book on coastal modeling, knowledge of articles for a forthcoming issue on coastal morphodynamic modeling which I am now editing, and an understanding of modeling skills required to encourage active participation in the coastal modeling process.
While the preferential selection of chapters provides a broad perspective on coastal modeling it should, nevertheless, be emphasized that the book is not intended to be an exhaustive account of ad-vances in coastal modeling. The omission of certain topics does not imply that they are unimportant, but space limitations prevented including as many as are needed to do justice to the multifaceted as-pects of coastal modeling. One of the unique strengths of the book is that the selected chapters bring together, from fourteen different countries, the special knowledge and expertise of coastal modelers who are with universities, the military, consulting and research institutions. The twenty-one chapters are representative of the scholarly advancement of contemporary research in coastal modeling. In ad-dition to chapters modeling the dynamic natural processes of waves, currents, circulatory flows and sediment transport there are also chapters that focus on the modeling of beaches, shorelines, tidal basins, and shore platforms. The substantial scope of the book is further strengthened with chapters concentrating on the effects of coastal structures on nearshore flows, coastal water quality, coastal pollution, coastal ecological modeling, statistical data modeling, and coupling of coastal models with geographical information systems. |
Advance in coastal modeling [texte imprimé] / Lakhan, V.C, Auteur . - Elsevier, 2003 . - 595 p. ; 25 cm. ISBN : 978-0-444-51149-2 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Index. décimale : |
551 Géologie, météorologie, hydrologie générale |
| Résumé : |
This book has the primary purpose of consolidating a comprehensive range of current coastal models and enlightening, timely review chapters to emphasize advances in significant areas of coastal modeling. The expected readership of senior students, academics, researchers, practicing professionals and all those interested in the modeling of coastal and oceanic processes and characteristics will obtain invaluable insights in scholarly research on coastal modeling.
To address the wide diversity of coastal models efforts have been made to present a book which is neither a narrowly specialized nor an all encompassing presentation on advances in coastal modeling. In choosing and organizing a representative selection of models from the broad spectrum of coastal models, critical decisions were required on what to include and what to exclude. Apart from considering the overall scope of the book, chapter selection was also aided by several criteria, in-cluding contents of an extensive coastal modeling database established in the late 1980's when I was first contracted to edit a book on coastal modeling, knowledge of articles for a forthcoming issue on coastal morphodynamic modeling which I am now editing, and an understanding of modeling skills required to encourage active participation in the coastal modeling process.
While the preferential selection of chapters provides a broad perspective on coastal modeling it should, nevertheless, be emphasized that the book is not intended to be an exhaustive account of ad-vances in coastal modeling. The omission of certain topics does not imply that they are unimportant, but space limitations prevented including as many as are needed to do justice to the multifaceted as-pects of coastal modeling. One of the unique strengths of the book is that the selected chapters bring together, from fourteen different countries, the special knowledge and expertise of coastal modelers who are with universities, the military, consulting and research institutions. The twenty-one chapters are representative of the scholarly advancement of contemporary research in coastal modeling. In ad-dition to chapters modeling the dynamic natural processes of waves, currents, circulatory flows and sediment transport there are also chapters that focus on the modeling of beaches, shorelines, tidal basins, and shore platforms. The substantial scope of the book is further strengthened with chapters concentrating on the effects of coastal structures on nearshore flows, coastal water quality, coastal pollution, coastal ecological modeling, statistical data modeling, and coupling of coastal models with geographical information systems. |
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