To follow the water : exploring the sea to discover climate : from the Gulf Stream to the blue beyond /

The author artfully recasts the story of human expansion and cultural development with the ocean playing the central role. Applying a novelist's eye for detail and a historian's drive for perspective, he connects the great ages of ocean exploration from Columbus, Magellan, and Cook to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Murphy, Dallas (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, [2007]
Subjects:	Ocean-atmosphere interaction > Popular works. Ocean circulation > Popular works. Climatic changes > Popular works. Interaction mer-atmosphère > Ouvrages de vulgarisation. Circulation océanique > Ouvrages de vulgarisation. Climat > Changements > Ouvrages de vulgarisation. Climatic changes Ocean-atmosphere interaction Ocean circulation Popular works. Popular works
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Table of Contents:

Out there
Sea of darkness
Notes in a bottle
Geography of motion
Wind on the water
Hill in the ocean
Henry Stommel
Rings and "meso" things
Deep
Ocean weather
Out on line W
Switch
Hurricanes and CTDs
"Graveyards of the Atlantic"
Choice
Overturning.