Physical Oceanographic Processes of the Great Barrier Reef is the first comprehensive volume describing the water circulation and its influence in controlling the distribution of marine life on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. The book uses exhaustive field and numerical studies to show how the influence of the salient topography occurs at all scales. Scales include:
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The Great Barrier Reef (Figure 1.1) extends approximately 2600 km along the eastern coast of Australia, from just north of Fraser Island in the south (25S) to the coast of Papua New Guinea in the north (9.2S). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
longshore wind component, reef density, southeast trade wind season, reef matrix, current metres, lateral trapping, tidal jet, upwelling mechanism, tidal ellipses, coral eggs, shelf waves, internal tides, reef passages, flood tidal currents, tidal frequency, boundary mixing, shelf break, mooring sites, oceanographic processes, reef region, river plume, reef platform, tidal period, significant wave height, bottom boundary layer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Myrmidon Reef, Bowden Reef, East Australian Current, Burdekin River, Gulf of Papua, Rattray Island, Great North East Channel, Fly River, Britomart Reef, Green Island, Ribbon Reefs, Cape Upstart, Capricorn Channel, Editorial Services, Lizard Island, Thursday Island, Academic Press, Bench Point, Flinders Reef, Keeper Reef, Rib Reef, Broad Sound, Carter Reef New!
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The Great Barrier Reef (Figure 1.1) extends approximately 2600 km along the eastern coast of Australia, from just north of Fraser Island in the south (25S) to the coast of Papua New Guinea in the north (9.2S). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
longshore wind component, reef density, southeast trade wind season, reef matrix, current metres, lateral trapping, tidal jet, upwelling mechanism, tidal ellipses, coral eggs, shelf waves, internal tides, reef passages, flood tidal currents, tidal frequency, boundary mixing, shelf break, mooring sites, oceanographic processes, reef region, river plume, reef platform, tidal period, significant wave height, bottom boundary layer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Myrmidon Reef, Bowden Reef, East Australian Current, Burdekin River, Gulf of Papua, Rattray Island, Great North East Channel, Fly River, Britomart Reef, Green Island, Ribbon Reefs, Cape Upstart, Capricorn Channel, Editorial Services, Lizard Island, Thursday Island, Academic Press, Bench Point, Flinders Reef, Keeper Reef, Rib Reef, Broad Sound, Carter Reef New!
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- The Great Barrier Reef by Isobel Bennett on 6 pages
- Physics of Shallow Estuaries and Bays (Coastal and Estuarine Studies) by J. van de Kreeke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Coral Reefs: Ecosystem in Crisis? (Occasional Publications) by Sue Warn on page 113, and Back Matter
- Residual Currents and Long-term Transport (Coastal and Estuarine Studies) by Ralph T. Cheng in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Physical Geography by Cuchlaine A.M. King in Back Matter
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- Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef by Eric Wolanski on 8 pages
- Environmental Oceanography: Second Edition (Marine Science Series) by Tom Beer in Front Matter, and page 258
- Coastal Ecosystem Processes (Marine Science) by Daniel M. Alongi in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits (Marine Science) by David Spencer Cronan in Front Matter
- Trophic Organization in Coastal Systems (Marine Science) by Robert J. Livingston in Front Matter
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