River Discharge to the Coastal Ocean

Rivers 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 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.