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2003, Oceanography 16(1):36–37, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2003.58
BOOK REVIEW | Wind Stress Over the Ocean
Book Information | Reviewer | First Paragraph | Full Review | Citation
Book Information
Wind Stress Over the Ocean
Edited by Ian S. F. Jones and Yoshiaki Toba, Cambridge University Press, 307 pp., ISBN: 0521662435
Reviewer
C.W. Fairall | NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA
First Paragraph
The monograph is the final report of the Scientific Committee on Oceanographic Research (SCOR) working group 101 which was commissioned in 1993 to survey the state of knowledge and suggest where research might be directed on the topic of stress over the ocean. A team of experts was assembled at several workshops over the years and eventually this book was produced. The editors suggest this work should be viewed as a companion to an earlier SCOR monograph on Dynamics and Modeling of Ocean Waves (Komen et al., 1994). The book is divided into three parts: an overview; a part 1, which is 'concerned with basic issues of the dynamics related to the wind stress over the ocean' ; and a part 2, which 'deals with the uncertainties in parameterizing drag over the ocean' and 'describes issues of a more specific nature crucial in understanding the physics'. Part 1 contains six chapters; Part 2 contains eight chapters.
Full Review
Citation
Fairall, C.W. 2003. Review of Wind Stress Over the Ocean, edited by I.S.F. Jones and Y. Toba.
Oceanography 16(1):36–37, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2003.58.