| Descript |
1 online resource (viii, 384 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps |
| Summary |
"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 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Runoff, erosion and delivery to the coastal ocean -- Temporal variations -- Human impacts -- Appendices. Global River Data Base: Appendix A: North and Central America -- Appendix B: South America -- Appendix C: Europe -- Appendix D: Africa -- Appendix E: Eurasia -- Appendix F: Asia -- Appendix G: Oceania. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide |
| Subject |
Stream measurements.
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Rivers.
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Fluvial geomorphology.
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Rivers. |
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Fluvial geomorphology. (OCoLC)fst01200702 |
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Rivers. (OCoLC)fst01098312 |
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Stream measurements. (OCoLC)fst01134581 |
| Alt Author |
Farnsworth, Katherine L., author.
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| ISBN |
9780511919077 (electronic bk.) |
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0511919077 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511915307 (electronic bk.) |
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0511915306 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511781247 (electronic bk.) |
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0511781245 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511918094 |
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0511918097 |
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9780521879873 (hardback) |
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0521879876 (hardback) |
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9781107612181 (paperback) |
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1107612187 |
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