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041 _aEnglish
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100 1 _aMilliman, John D.,
100 1 _eauthor.
245 1 0 _aRiver discharge to the coastal ocean :
_ba global synthesis /
_cJohn D. Milliman, Katherine L. Farnsworth.
260 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011
300 _aviii, 384 pages :
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500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aRunoff, erosion and delivery to the coastal ocean -- Temporal variations -- Human activities and their 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.
520 _aRivers 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. It also discusses the ways in which climatic variation, episodic events and anthropogenic activities - past, present and future - affect the quantity and quality of river discharge. The book contains more than 165 figures - many in full color - including global and regional maps. An 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. Now available in paperback, reprinted with corrections, this is an invaluable resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students in hydrology, oceanography, geology, geomorphology and environmental policy.
650 0 _aStream measurements.
650 0 _aRivers.
650 0 _aFluvial geomorphology.
700 1 _aFarnsworth, Katherine L.,
700 1 _eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
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