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(More customer reviews)This brief text of 157 pages is a general introduction to estuaries which assumes no previous knowledge of oceonography, for example it devotes 12 pages to the general theory of tides, and many other pages to cursury descriptions of instruments used by all oceanographers. It would be suitable for a beginning student, but has limited appeal to the specialist in estuaries.
The Humber Estuary, on the east coast of Northern England, is the main subject of the narative, with only fleeting references to other types of estuaries. The author describes several numerical models of various paramenters of this estuary, implimented using the Excel spreadsheet application. Since Excel is almost universally availble, this adds a nice quantitative component to the book. However, the author describes the implimentation of the modeling in exasperating detail, describing each key stroke for example after example. This is not good way to teach, and it fills up many pages of an already short essay.
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Estuaries are complex and fascinating natural environments, where constantly changing water depths generate rapidly reversing currents and transport vast quantities of salt, heat, and sediment on a daily basis. Estuaries: Monitoring and Modeling the Physical System examines these processes, offering extensive information about the geological evolution of estuaries, and details of bathymetry, tides, currents, salt and heat, and suspended sediment.By carefully building a working computer model which accurately emulates the complexities inherent in estuaries, students learn quickly to model the tides and currents, and then to build and test salinity, temperature, and suspended sediment modules.The book is strongly supported by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/hardisty which includes:* Regularly updated Dynamic Internet References* Excel routines for individual formulae and diagrams* Full coding for the estuarine modelTHE ANALYSIS OF TIDAL STREAM POWER – For Jack Hardisty's new book and the accompanying website please click here: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047072451X.html
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