Do Marine Scientists Have a Scientific View of the Earth?

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Authors

Gunther Krause | Alfred Wegener Institut für Polar- und Meeresforchung, Bermerhaven, Germany

Matthias Tomczak | Flinders Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

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First Paragraph

One of the great challenges of marine sciences has always been to integrate the information collected over many decades by the oceanographic community into a global picture of life and water movement in the world ocean. The advent of satellites has assisted us greatly: we are now presented with quasi-synoptic global views of our planet on a daily basis. Developments in computer technology were essential to this change, since without them today's satellites could neither fly nor transmit oceanographic information.

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Citation

Krause, G., and M. Tomczak. 1995. Do marine scientists have a scientific view of the Earth? Oceanography 8(1):11–16, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.1995.26.

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