It's a truism in science that the simplest questions are the
hardest to answer. What makes it rain? Why do waves foam and
bubble? Considering the recent five-year drought in the Northeast,
it would seem high time that weathermen sought a few answers.
Blanchard, an ex-Navy man, now a research scientist at Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution, presents an enthusiastic account of what
is and isn't known about sea surface meteorology. He explains why
raindrops are not tear-shaped but more like hamburger buns; how
water splashing on water creates tiny jet fountains, and how salt
particles get to ride high in the air. He then relates these minute
surface studies to the eruption of Surtsey - the volcanic island
recently formed off the coast of Iceland (of which he gives a vivid
eye-witness account). Like many books in the Science Study Series
this one is clearly aimed at young readers with do-it-yourself
experimental glints in their eyes. The lazy adult will not mind
this, however, or the didactic I-want-to-tell-you style, because
what Blanchard does want to tell belongs to the
little-known-but-fascinating realm. (Kirkus Reviews)
The author introduces a small section of the frontier of the
science of the atmosphere by describing experiments designed to
clarify what occurs when the atmosphere interacts with the surface
of the sea.
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