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2011, Oceanography 24(3):310–311, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2011.86
BOOK REVIEW | On Sea Ice
Book Information | Reviewer | First Paragraph | Full Review | Citation | References
Book Information
On Sea Ice
By W.F. Weeks, University of Alaska Press, 2010, 664 pages, ISBN 978-1-60223-079-8,
Hardcover, $85 US
Reviewer
Peter Wadhams | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire d'Océanographie, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
First Paragraph
On Sea Ice is a long-awaited book by the greatest living master of the art of sea ice research, and it satisfies all the expectations of those who have been waiting patiently for the last decade. It covers every aspect of the geophysics of sea ice and its role in the ocean, and includes references up to 2008. The book is literally the last word on the subject because, given the explosion of research effort in the past few years, the science of sea ice is now going beyond the capacity of one person to fully understand and summarize. Future textbooks on sea ice are bound to be multi-author works.
Full Review
Citation
Wadhams, P. 2011. Review of On Sea Ice, by W.F. Weeks. Oceanography 24(3):310–311, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2011.86.
References
Hibler, W.D. III. 1979. A dynamic thermodynamic sea ice model. Journal of Physical Oceanography 9:815–846, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1979)009<0815:ADTSIM>2.0.CO;2.
Wadhams, P. 2000. Ice in the Ocean. Taylor and Francis, 368 pp.
Zubov, N.N. 1943. L'dy Arktiki. Eng. Trans. Arctic Ice by US Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego, 1963.