Books in the Ocean Sciences Research series

This book examines large-scale outbreaks of red tide along coastal areas, which is associated with fish and shellfish mass mortalities through poisoning.

A coastal sea area usually indicates a sea area between a continental shelf break with a water depth of about 200 m and the land shore. But if coastal oceanography were to be summed up in a single sentence, it would be `the study that quantitatively makes clear the material transport in the coastal sea area'.