Estuaries: Monitoring and Modeling the Physical System [Hardcover]

Jack Hardisty (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1405146427 | ISBN-13: 978-1405146425 | Publication Date: February 13, 2007 | Edition: 1

Estuaries are complex and fascinating natural environments, where constantly changing water depths generate rapidly reversing currents and transport vast quantities of salt, heat, and sediment on a daily basis. Estuaries: Monitoring and Modeling the Physical System examines these processes, offering extensive information about the geological evolution of estuaries, and details of bathymetry, tides, currents, salt and heat, and suspended sediment.

By carefully building a working computer model which accurately emulates the complexities inherent in estuaries, students learn quickly to model the tides and currents, and then to build and test salinity, temperature, and suspended sediment modules.

The book is strongly supported by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/hardisty which includes:

* Regularly updated Dynamic Internet References

* Excel routines for individual formulae and diagrams

* Full coding for the estuarine model

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Book Description

Estuaries represent one of the most complex and fascinating of the natural environments, where constantly changing water depths generate rapidly reversing currents and transport vast quantities of salt, heat and sediment on a daily basis. Estuaries: Monitoring and Modelling the Physical System introduces readers to these processes with a wide ranging introduction to the geological evolution of estuaries, and details of bathymetry, tides, currents, salt and heat, and suspended sediment. By carefully building a working computer model which accurately emulates the systems complexities, students learn quickly to model the tides and currents and then to build and test salinity, temperature and suspended sediment modules. The book is strongly supported with a web site which includes: bull; bull;Regularly updated Dynamic Internet References bull;Excelettes for individual formulae and diagrams bull;Full coding for the estuarine model

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Estuaries are complex and fascinating natural environments, where constantly changing water depths generate rapidly reversing currents and transport vast quantities of salt, heat, and sediment on a daily basis. Estuaries: Monitoring and Modeling the Physical System examines these processes, offering extensive information about the geological evolution of estuaries, and details of bathymetry, tides, currents, salt and heat, and suspended sediment.

By carefully building a working computer model which accurately emulates the complexities inherent in estuaries, students learn quickly to model the tides and currents, and then to build and test salinity, temperature, and suspended sediment modules.

The book is strongly supported by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/hardisty which includes:

• Regularly updated Dynamic Internet References
  
• Excel routines for individual formulae and diagrams
  
• Full coding for the estuarine model

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (February 13, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405146427
• ISBN-13: 978-1405146425
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,275,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Of limited appeal, June 26, 2009

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Michael W. Konrad (Sausalito, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This brief text of 157 pages is a general introduction to estuaries which assumes no previous knowledge of oceonography, for example it devotes 12 pages to the general theory of tides, and many other pages to cursury descriptions of instruments used by all oceanographers. It would be suitable for a beginning student, but has limited appeal to the specialist in estuaries.

The Humber Estuary, on the east coast of Northern England, is the main subject of the narative, with only fleeting references to other types of estuaries. The author describes several numerical models of various paramenters of this estuary, implimented using the Excel spreadsheet application. Since Excel is almost universally availble, this adds a nice quantitative component to the book. However, the author describes the implimentation of the modeling in exasperating detail, describing each key stroke for example after example. This is not good way to teach, and it fills up many pages of an already short essay.

1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely dissapointing, December 10, 2008

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F. R. Garcia (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Estuaries: Monitoring and Modeling the Physical System (Hardcover)

I cannot overstate my disappointment after reviewing this book. There is no new material that you cannot find in other references. Theoretical presentations about the methods that are used in the model are very simplistic or non-existent. "How-to" explanations are cryptic and obscure. The spreadsheet "model" is very limited and the VBA program is closed to users, so you can not see how the author implemented the formulas. There are numerous necessary MS-Excel screen shots of almost empty screens that add nothing to the explanations. One of them (Fig. 4.1) is an empty MS-Excel sheet!!
Do not waste your money like I did. There are far better options out there.