Abstract
The improved monitoring and modeling capability resulting from recent technological advances in oceanographic sensors, computer processing power, and telecommunications can play a major role in environmental preservation. In particular, this capability can help improve: safe navigation and thus the prevention of maritime accidents that lead to hazardous spills; the effective cleanup of hazardous spills when they do occur; the real-time assessment of water quality problems; the assessment of long-term trends and variability due to both anthropogenic and climate change effects; and the understanding of key physical, chemical, and ecological processes.
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Parker, B.B. Monitoring and modeling of coastal waters in support of environmental preservation. J Mar Sci Technol 1, 75–84 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02391163
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