Remote Sensing of Shelf Sea Hydrodynamics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Remote Sensing of Shelf Sea Hydrodynamics 4
Copyright Page 5
CONTENTS 12
FOREWORD 6
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 8
Chapter 1. Water Colour imaging from space 14
Chapter 2. Contribution of remote sensing to modelling 38
Chapter 3. Optimal remote sensing of marine environment 50
Chapter 4. Satellite and field observations of currents on the Eastern Sicilian Shelf 64
Chapter 5. Kinetic study of self-propelled marine vortices based on remotely sensed data 82
Chapter 6. Study of vortex structure in water surface jets by means of remote sensing 120
Chapter 7. Surface temperature and current vectors in the Sea of Japan from NOAA-7/AVHRR DATA 146
Chapter 8. Study of mesoscale processes in the shelf zone of the black Sea using remote techniques 162
Chapter 9. Surface-wave expression of bathymetry over a sand ridge 172
Chapter 10. Wave-Current interactions. A powerful mechanism for an alteration of the waves on the sea surface by subsurface bathymetry 200
Chapter 11. Remote Sensing of oil slick behaviour 218
Chapter 12. An intercomparison of GEOS-3 altimeter and ground truth data off the Norveqian coast 230
Chapter 13. Satellite imagery of boundary currents 248
Chapter 14. Turbulence distribution off USHANT ISLAND measured by the OSUREM HF radar 270
Chapter 15. A quasi geostrophic model of the circulation of the Mediterranean Sea 290
Chapter 16. Some applications of remote sensing to studies in the Bay of Biscay, Celtic Sea and English Channel 300
Chapter 17. Remote Sensing of Chlorophyll in the red spectral region 330
Chapter 18. Satellite representation of features of ocean circulation indicated by CZCS colorimetry 350