{"product_id":"9789401083706","title":"Sea-level research: a manual for the collection and evaluation of data: A manual for the collection and evaluation of data","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSea-level research: a manual for the collection and evaluation of data: A manual for the collection and evaluation of data\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003evan de Plassche, O.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn editorial by Wanless (1982), entitled \"Sea level is rising - so what?\", tells the case of an executive editor of a major city newspaper, who, when confronted with evi­ dence for a recent sea-level rise, replied: \"That just means the ocean is six inches deeper, doesn't it?\". Whether his \"so what?\" attitude was real or put on to dike a threat of sensation, there is at present a wide and deepening interest in ongoing and future global sea-level change. This interest has grown along with the concern over global warming due to increasing levels of C02 and trace gases. A stage has been reached where investigators of climat- sea-level relationships call for long-term measurement programmes for ice-volume changes (using satellite altimetry) and changes in temperature and salinity of the oceans (ther­ mal expansion). This manual, however, is primarily concerned with sea­ level changes in the past, mainly since the end of the last glaciation. Its major objective is to help answer the ques­ tion: \"how?\", which, of course, is little else but to assist in the gathering of fuel for the burning question: \"why?\" Good fuel, hopefully, for the less smoke and ashes, and the more heat and light produced by that fire, the better scientists are enabled to develop a quantitative under­ standing of past, and hence of future, sea-level changes on different spatial and temporal scales.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2011-09-26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789401083706\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-009-4215-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 229.0cm x152.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 618.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44422559957132,"sku":"9789401083706","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789401083706.jpg?v=1756271013","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789401083706","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}