Project Earth Science
Physical Oceanography
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 3. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-1-936959-02-0 (ISBN)
Description
Immerses students in activities that focus on water, the substance that covers nearly three-quarters of Earth's surface. Eighteen ready-to-use, teacher-tested classroom activities and supplemental readings offer explorations and straightforward explanations to foster intuitive understanding of key science concepts.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Arlington
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 272 mm
Width: 211 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
662 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-936959-02-0 (9781936959020)
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Persons
Alfredo L. Aretxabaleta is a physical oceanographer with US Geological Survey (USGS) at the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. He woks on sediment transport problems in the coastal ocean, including cohesion and resuspension processes. He also studies the effects of storms and changing climate on coastal water levels. He has worked on observation, data assimilation, and real-time forecasting relative to harmful algal blooms and fish recruitment in the western Atlantic, and he has worked at the Institut de Ciencies del Mar (Barcelona) in the satellite sensing of ocean salinity.