READINGS: BOOK REVIEWS

READINGS

BOOK REVIEWS

THE OCEAN CARBON CYCLE AND CLIMATE Mick Follows and Temel Oguz, Eds., 2004, 395 pp., $199.00, hardbound, Kluwer Academic/Springer-Verlag, ISBN 1-4020-2085-6

This edited volume represents the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute titled "The Ocean Carbon Cycle and Climate" that was held at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, 6-15 August 2002. Based on the ocean carbon studies of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study and the World Ocean Circulation Experiment of the 1990s, the purpose of the Advanced Study Institute and subsequent book were to provide an overview of our present understanding of the ocean carbon cycle, its …