Blue Machine

How the Ocean Works

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Helen Czerski: Blue Machine (2023, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.)

English language

Published July 2, 2023 by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W..

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978-1-324-00672-5
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A wonderful book about the machine the is the world's oceans.

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An excellent book about a global machine that people don't often think about: the global ocean. A machine takes in energy and does work, and the author shows how the ocean does that. The ocean takes in the energy of the sun, stores it mainly as heat, and uses it to move water in great currents all over the world. This affects how organisms live, for those at the surface to those living in the depths.

The book starts with showing how the machine works physically. Light from the sun heats the surface, causing evaporation and currents to form as cold water moves in to replace the lost water. The earth's rotation swirls the currents as they move north or south, which are further affected by land masses in their path. The author goes from the equator to the poles, showing how the workings of the machine affect the local …

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