Remote Sensing of the African Seas

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barale, Vittorio (Editor), Gade, Martin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Geography.; Oceanography.; Geotechnical engineering.; Remote sensing.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.

The African Seas include marginal basins of two major oceans, the Atlantic and the Indian, a miniature ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and an infant ocean, the Red Sea. Understanding the wide spectrum of environmental features and processes of such a varied collection of marine and coastal regions req...

Table of Contents:

• Atlantic Ocean - NW Africa
• Equatorial - SW Africa
• Southern Ocean - South Atlantic current / Circumpolar current interactions with - Agulhas current, retroflection, return current.- Indian Ocean - SE Africa
• South Equatorial current / East Africa Coastal current
• East Africa Coastal current / Somali current
• East Madagascar current
• Mozambique Channel current / eddies - Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea.