Title Assessment of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program : Physical Oceanography

Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (154 pages) Contents Assessment of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- THE PRESENT STUDY -- ACQUISITION AND USE OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC INFORMATION BY THE ESP -- CONCLUSIONS -- Physical Oceanographic Processes And Models Of Importance To The Esp -- Regional Oceanography -- Evaluation Of Regional Programs And Washington Office Programs -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- 1 Introduction -- OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF ACTIVITIES -- Management Of OCS Activities -- Extent of the Leasing Program Environmental Concerns Resulting from OCS ActivitiesMMS'S ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM -- Mandate -- History of the Environmental Studies Program -- THE PRESENT STUDY -- PLANNING AND PROCUREMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES -- Development of a Studies Plan -- Implementation of Studies According to Lease-Sale Schedules -- WHY MMS NEEDS PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC INFORMATION -- ACQUISITION AND USE OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC INFORMATION -- WHAT INFORMATION IS NEEDED -- Information Needed for Leasing Decisions -- Information Needed for Development and Production Decisions Criteria for Judging Adequacy of Scientific Information2 State-of-the-Art Overview: Physical Oceanographic Processes, Features, and Methods of Potential I ... -- INTRODUCTION -- The Problem of Assessing Impacts of Oil Exploration: A Physical Oceanographic Perspective -- Transport Processes in the Water Column -- Sediment Transport Processes -- Space and Time Scales -- Forcing Mechanisms -- Oil Spill and Circulation Models -- Scope of the Overview -- TRANSPORT, STIRRING, AND MIXING PROCESSES -- Wind Stress�Drag Coefficient and Space and Time Resolution Surface Wind Drift and Ekman DynamicsDefinition Of The Mixed Layer -- Mixed Layer Turbulence -- Surface Waves and Stokes Drift -- Response To Severe Storms -- Organized Motions -- Diurnal Cycle and Shallowing Mixed Layers -- Monitoring -- Coastal-Trapped Waves -- Mean-Flow Generation -- Interactions Of Western Boundary Currents With Shelves -- Mesoscale Features: Jets, Eddies, Squirts, And Filaments -- Fronts And Convergences -- Cross-Shelf Transport -- Buoyancy-Driven Flows -- Tides -- Internal Waves -- Lagrangian Motions -- NUMERICAL MODELS Circulation ModelingTesting Of Numerical Models -- Modeling The Spreading And Dispersion Of Oil -- Spreading -- Dispersion -- SEA ICE -- Ice Modeling -- Ice-Oil Interaction -- Numerical Models Including Oil-Ice Interactions -- SEDIMENT TRANSPORT -- Bottom Boundary Layer and Transport of Suspended Materials -- Sediment Transport and The Effect of Oil -- 3 Regional Oceanography and Evaluation of The Regional Studies Programs and Washington Office Gener ... -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ALASKA REGION -- Meteorology and Circulation -- Gulf of Alaska -- Meteorology Notes ""Circulation"" English Print version record Subject Continental shelf -- Environmental aspects -- United States Oceanography. Offshore oil industry -- Environmental aspects -- United States Offshore gas industry -- Environmental aspects -- United States Oceanography oceanography. Continental shelf -- Environmental aspects Oceanography Offshore gas industry -- Environmental aspects Offshore oil industry -- Environmental aspects United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9780309582384 0309582385 0309041813 9780309041812

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