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The Aegean Sea: Wind Waves and Tides

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The Aegean Sea Environment

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 127))

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The wind waves and the periodic elevation and fall of the sea surface in coastal areas, i.e. the tides, are the first manifestations of ocean behaviour that mankind ever observed. Thousands of years ago, Aristotle at the Euripus Strait in the city of Halkis and the nearby shoreline tried to understand why the sea was flooding onto the land and then receding away from it revealing the coastline stretches of sea bottom, known to us as the ‘intertidal zone’, that hours ago were flooded with sea water. As ocean science progressed, various aspects of the oceanic environment came into light regarding physical, chemical, biological and geological characteristics of the sea water. However, wind waves and tides are basic oceanic phenomena that exert a lot of influence on issues related to human activities in the ocean and particularly at the coastal areas. This chapter presents elements of our up-to-date knowledge on wind waves and tides in the Aegean Sea.

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The part of this chapter dealing with wave climate analysis has been conducted using data available through EU Copernicus Monitoring Environment Marine Service (CMEMS) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.25423/CMCC/MEDSEA_HINDCAST_WAV_006_012), (http://marine.copernicus.eu/services-portfolio/access-to-products/).

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  1. Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Anavyssos, Greece

    Takvor Soukissian, Harilaos Kontoyiannis & Flora Karathanasi

  2. School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Flora Karathanasi & Kostas Belibassakis

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  1. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Institute of Oceanography, Athens, Greece

    Christos L. Anagnostou

  2. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, S.Yu. Witte Moscow University, Moscow, Russia

    Andrey G. Kostianoy

  3. Department of Geology & Geoenvironment, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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  5. Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

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  6. Panteion University of Social and Political Science, Athens, Greece

    Grigoris Tsaltas

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Soukissian, T., Kontoyiannis, H., Karathanasi, F., Belibassakis, K. (2020). The Aegean Sea: Wind Waves and Tides. In: Anagnostou, C.L., Kostianoy, A.G., Mariolakos, I.D., Panayotidis, P., Soilemezidou, M., Tsaltas, G. (eds) The Aegean Sea Environment. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 127. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2020_658

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