River Discharge to the Coastal Ocean: A Global Synthesis
John D. Milliman, Katherine L. Farnsworth
Rivers provide the primary link between land and sea. Utilizing the world's largest database, this book presents a detailed analysis and synthesis of the processes affecting fluvial discharge of water, sediment and dissolved solids. The ways in which climatic variation, episodic events, and anthropogenic activities - past, present and future - affect the quantity and quality of river discharge are discussed in the final two chapters. The book contains 26 tables and more than 165 figures - many in full color - including global and regional maps. The book's extensive appendix presents the 1534-river database as a series of 44 tables and 132 maps that provide quantitative data regarding the discharge of water, sediment and dissolved solids. The complete database is also presented within a GIS-based package available online at www.cambridge.org/milliman. River Discharge to the Coastal Ocean provides an invaluable resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students in hydrology, oceanography, geology, geomorphology and environmental policy.
카테고리:
년:
2011
출판사:
Cambridge University Press
언어:
english
페이지:
393
ISBN 10:
0521879876
ISBN 13:
9780521879873
파일:
DJVU, 8.37 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011