Changing Sea Levels.(Book Review)

Publication: Geoscience Canada

Publication Date: 01-JUN-05

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COPYRIGHT 2005 Geological Association of Canada

by David Pugh Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building Cambridge CB2 2RU England ISBN0521532183; 2004 70 [pounds sterling] hardcover, 30 [pounds sterling] paperback

"Down with sea level rise" was the message on a placard that greeted the author of this book during a conference in the Maldives. As he explains in the preface to this interesting monograph, sea level rise associated with climate change is a matter of considerable public interest and concern, so this book should be a valuable reference for more than the undergraduates at whom it is primarily aimed.

David Pugh is the well-qualified author of the comprehensive 1996 "Tides, Surges and Mean Sea Level", now sadly out of print. This new volume is a slimmed down version, with new material on satellite altimetry and the effects of climate change. The author's easy and clear style makes the book a pleasure to read, although the desire to minimize the mathematical content means that the theoretical and...

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