Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Ocean Studies Board (OSB) report, Oceanography in the Next Decade: Building New Partnerships, highlighted the research programs that contribute to an understanding of the ocean's role in Earth systems. It stressed the importance of developing new partnerships between the federal government and the academic oceanographic community. These partnerships must be based on information transfer among participants. The Ocean Studies Board strived to accomplish this communication and education in the form of brief summaries if the major research programs, first in 1990, and now at the beginning of 1994.
Synopsis
What role does the ocean play in global climate change? Although not fully understood, there is general agreement that it is significant. Therefore, the scientific community has initiated large-scale research programs based on studies of the ocean and its relation to global climate and climate-related processes. This volume provides brief summaries and reports on the progress of the major oceanographic research programs. It looks at both programs that study processes that occur over periods ranging from days to hundreds of years-the contemporary system-and those that seek to understand long-term variations ranging from thousands to millions of years-the geological perspective.