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The Power of the Sea describes our struggle to understand the physics of the sea, so we can use that knowledge to predict when the sea will unleash its fury against us. In a wide-sweeping narrative spanning much of human history, Bruce Parker, former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service, interweaves thrilling and often moving stories of unpredicted natural disaster with an accessible account of scientific discovery. The result is a compelling scientific journey, from ancient man's first crude tide predictions to today's advanced early warning ability based on the Global Ocean Observing System. It is a journey still underway, as we search for ways to predict tsunamis and rogue waves and critical aspects of El Nino and climate change caused by global warming.
著者について
Bruce Parker, PhD, is the former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service in NOAA and is presently a visiting professor at the Center for Maritime Systems at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a world-recognized physical oceanographer who has received the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal and the Commodore Cooper Medal from the International Hydrographic Organization. His son is Sean Parker of Napster and Facebook fame. He lives in Herndon, Virginia.
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22 人中、22人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
I learned an amazing amount from this book.
2010/11/1
形式:ハードカバー|Amazonが確認した購入
Although I have heard about the tsunamis in the Indian Ocean, I was never aware of all the details and the effort going on the predict and warn of future events. Just the shear number of earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. that occur without us knowing about them is amazing. All the cases described in this book about tides, waves, etc. show how important the sea has been throughout history. If you have ever had any interest in history and/or the sea, read this book.
20 人中、19人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
THE book about waves!
2010/12/2
形式:ハードカバー|Amazonが確認した購入
Purchased this book after being sorely disappointed from reading "The Wave" by Susan Casey. And there I found what I really wanted: a whole up-to-date exposition of the knowledge as to how different types of waves in the ocean come to being and their impact on life on earth including their sometimes terrifying consequences on human societies. No breathless prose about extreme surfers, an extremely tiny group (although I would like to see a video of them doing it and talking about their experiences anyway), but, along the science, vivid description of the the aftermath on people...
9 人中、9人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Literate Science Communication
2010/12/19
形式:ハードカバー
This popular-style science book is praiseworthy and worth its low cost. As a practising geoscience engineer, I was especially pleased with the book's huge End-Notes section, where topics that fascinated me in the author's main text can be substantiated and further investigated by access to the references. (Too many popular books become unreliable technical resources because they lack Bibliographies or Citations sections.) The author has a nack for a writing style that popularizes science and its jargon in a manner that is entirely informative and I hope he writes more such books on his favorite topics. He's an authentic scientist, not some ordinary, money-grubbing "journalist" turned "authority" in search of public recognition and future book-penning contracts. The illustrations, maps are to the point and there was just one typographical error (a date) that I noticed. This book will interest many people!
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