Oceans and Climate

✍ Scribed by Grant R. Bigg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 286
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

New edition of successful textbook that introduces the multi-disciplinary controls on air-sea interaction.

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