Lagrangian Analysis and Prediction of Coastal and Ocean Dynamics : Cambridge University Press : 9780521870184 : 0521870186 : 10 May 2007 : Written by a group of international experts in their fields, this book is a review of Lagrangian observation, analysis, and assimilation methods in physical and biological oceanography. In recent years a large number of floating and drifting research buoys have been deployed in the global oceans to study the state of the ocean and its variation in terms of water mass properties. Circulation and heat transport Lagrangian techniques are required to analyze the data from these buoys. This multidisciplinary text contains observations, theory, numerical simulations, and analysis techniques. It presents new results on nonlinear analysis of Lagrangian dynamics, the prediction of particle trajectories, and Lagrangian stochastic models. It includes chapters on floats and drifters; Lagrangian-based analysis methods and models in marine biology: the statistics