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Book SynopsisZirker is that rare animal who can both communicate the most demanding technical detail and make it accessible.-New Scientist
Trade ReviewFrom ocean scientists and surfers-to whom it brings some different and interesting ways of looking at things; to the amateur who's always been slightly curious... You'll never look at the sea in the same way again. -- Chris Almond Weather This fascinating book is hard to put down... [ The Science of Ocean Waves] is an interesting read for scientists and laypeople, and it would make a great book for an undergraduate oceanography class. Choice In his new book, The Science of Ocean Waves: Ripples, Tsunamis, and Stormy Seas, J. B. Zirker offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of a familiar phenomenon whose complexity is hardly appreciated by nonscientists. Zirker's deep insights, historic perspectives, and excellent narrative, which he provides with minimal graphics and without a single equation, make the book a fascinating read... The Science of Ocean Waves is truly a remarkable achievement. It has a great chance to become a standard text for students, scientist, weather and ocean forecasters, engineers, climate modelers, and anyone else whose curiosity or professional interests relate to ocean waves. -- Alexander Babanin Physics Today
Table of ContentsPreface
1. A Walk along the Beach
2. What Exactly Is a Wave?
3. How the Wind Generates Ocean Waves
4. A Touch of Reality: How Big Waves Behave
5. Observations at Sea: The Postwar Boom
6. Forecasting and Monitoring Storm Waves
7. Breaking Waves
8. Freaks and Rogues
9. Tsunamis
10. Internal Waves and El Niño
11. The Tides
12. The Currents
13. Ship Waves
14. Renewable Energy from Waves and Tides
15. The Future
Glossary
Index
