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FROM VOLUME 5, NUMBER 12, DECEMBER 1992

PERIODICALS...
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE

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Two items from Earth, Nov. 1992.

"Earth Beat: Global Cooling," T. Waters, 16-18. Effects of the dust cloud from Mt. Pinatubo have been simulated by global climate models, providing a test of their ability to forecast climate change.

"20,000 Leagues under the Keys," D. Mallinson, 46-53. Scientists are searching deep waters off the Florida coast for evidence of carbonate deposition, to determine whether the Earth has built-in protection from the greenhouse effect.

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"A Star in the Greenhouse: Can the Sun Dampen the Predicted Global Warming?" R. Monastersky, Sci. News, 282-283, 285, Oct. 24, 1992. (See Research News, this GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE DIGEST issue--Dec. 1992.)

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"How Susan Solomon's Research Changed Our View of Earth," J. Glantz, R&D Mag., 46-50, Sep. 1992. Profiles the career of the magazine's Scientist of the Year, particularly her discovery of the link between CFCs and the ozone hole.

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"When Climate Twitches, Evolution Takes Great Leaps," R.A. Kerr, Science, 1622-1624, Sep. 18, 1992. (See Research News, this GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE DIGEST issue--Dec. 1992.)

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"Cold Comfort," L. Oliwenstein, Discover, 18-22, Aug. 1992; "Icy Prospects for a Warmer World," G. Davidson, New Scientist, 23-26, Aug. 8, 1992. Both articles discuss recent results from several disciplines suggesting that global warming could encourage ice sheet growth and sea level fall, rather than the opposite, which is the prevalent expectation.

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Special Issue: Oceanus, 35(1), Spring 1992. (Woods Hole Oceanog. Inst., 9 Maury Ln., Woods Hole MA 02543) Contains survey articles on marine chemistry written by experts at a general level.

"Introduction," J.W. Farrington, 11-17. "Balancing the [Carbon] Budget," T. Takahashi, P.P. Tans, I. Fung, 18-28. "Biomedical Uses for Natural Marine Chemicals," D.J. Faulkner, 29-35. "Photochemistry in the Oceans," N.V. Blough, 36. "Marine Organic Geochemistry," D.J. Repeta, G. Eglinton, C. Lee, 38-46. "Tracers in Oceanography," W.J. Jenkins, 47-56. "US Joint Global Ocean Flux Study Program," U.S. JGOFS Planning Office, 57. "Particles in the Oceans," J. Dymond, 60-67. "Biogeochemical Processes on the Seafloor," F.L. Sayles, 68-75. "Hydrothermal Activity in the Deep Sea," J.M. Edmond, K.L. Von Damm, 76-84.

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Special Issue: ibid., Summer 1992 (on physical oceanography).

"Observing Ocean Circulation from Space," C. Wunsch, 9-17. "The Gulf Stream and Its Recirculations," N. Hogg, 18-27. "Overflows: The Source of New Abyssal Waters," J.F. Price, 28-35. "Mysteries of Planetary Plumbing," R.W. Schmitt Jr., 38-45 (on the global hydrological cycle and climate). "Dynamics of the Ocean Mixed Layer," R.A. Weller, D.M. Farmer, 46-55. "El Niño," S.G. Philander, 56-61. "TOGA-COARE," R. Lucas, P.J. Webster, 62-65 (on two major observation programs, the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere Program, and the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment). "Climate Prediction and the Ocean: Modeling Future Conditions," E.S. Sarachik, 66-73. "WOCE," G.T. Needler, 74-77 (on the World Ocean Circulation Experiment). "Physical Oceanography--Old Friends, New Agendas," P.B. Rhines, 78-85 (climate prediction will change the way oceanographers work and think).