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Intro; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction to Coastal Ocean Observing; References; Chapter 2: Electronic Sensors and Instruments for Coastal Ocean Observing; 2.1 Transducer-Driven Instruments for Ocean Observing; 2.2 Electronic Sensors and Instruments for Ocean Observing; 2.2.1 Seawater Temperature; Resistance Thermometer Detectors; Thermistor Temperature Detector; Satellite Radiometry; 2.2.2 Seawater Pressure; 2.2.3 Ocean Currents; Eulerian Current Observation; 2.2.4 Ocean Tides; Staffs and Floaters; Bubbler Gauges; Acoustic Gauges; Microwave Radar Water Level Sensors |
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2.2.5 Ocean WavesSurface Waves; Wave Observation from Surface Platforms; Bottom-Mounted Wave Sensors; Internal Waves; 2.2.6 Ocean Winds; Mechanical Rotor Anemometers; Acoustic Anemometers; Satellite-Borne Scatterometers; 2.2.7 Light in the Sea; 2.3 Electrochemical Sensors for Coastal Ocean Observing; 2.3.1 Seawater Salinity; History of Practical Salinometry; The Practical Salinity Scale and the International Equation of State of Seawater; Practical Salinometry; 2.3.2 Dissolved Oxygen in Seawater; Polarographic Oxygen Electrode; Oxygen Optode |
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2.3.3 The Inorganic Carbon System and pH in SeawaterpH Sensors for Ocean Observing; Dye-Based pH Spectrophotometry; Solid-State Ion-Selective Field Effect Transistors for pH Measurement; pCO2 Sensors; Carbon Dioxide Measurements from Space; 2.3.4 Inorganic Nutrients Dissolved in Seawater; Autonomous Wet Chemistry Instruments; Spectroscopic Nutrient Measurements; 2.4 Electro-Optical Sensors for Measurement of Organic Matter in Seawater; 2.4.1 Colored Dissolved Organic Matter in Seawater; Chemical Nature, Distribution, and Pertinence of CDOM to Coastal Ocean Observing |
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Optical Characterization of CDOM2.4.2 Sensing and Tracking Petroleum Pollution in the Marine Environment; Chemical Composition, Weathering, and Effects of Petroleum Pollution; Chemical and Optical Analysis of Petroleum in the Marine Environment; Remote Sensing of Petroleum Spills; 2.5 Sensors for Biological Compounds and Processes: Chlorophyll, Accessory Pigments, and Photosynthetic Activity; 2.5.1 In Vitro/In Vivo Chlorophyll Fluorometry; 2.5.2 Automated Sell Sorting, Counting, and Bio-optical Characterization; 2.5.3 Remote Sensing of Photosynthetic Pigments; References |
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Chapter 3: Platforms for Coastal Ocean Observing3.1 Fixed Ocean Observing Platforms; 3.1.1 Land-Based Ocean Observing Platforms; 3.1.2 Ocean-Based Ocean Observing Platforms; Floating Bottom-Tethered Buoys; Sea Bottom Emplacements; 3.2 Mobile Ocean Observing Platforms; 3.2.1 Manned Vessels and Shipboard Deployed Vehicles; 3.2.2 Lagrangian Drifters; 3.2.3 Autonomous Surface Vehicles; 3.2.4 Underwater Gliders; 3.3 Ocean Observing Satellites in Terrestrial Orbit; References |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: 9783319783512 |
| Genre/form | Observations. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9783319783529 |
| ISBN | 3319783521 |
| Standard identifier# |
10.1007/978-3-319-78352-9 |
| Stock number | com.springer.onix.9783319783529 Springer Nature |
