World Ocean Atlas, Vol. 1: Pacific Ocean

Summary

This review assesses World Ocean Atlas, Volume 1: Pacific Ocean, edited by Sergei G. Gorshkov (1976). The reviewer praises its extensive thematic coverage and carefully produced color plates, considering it particularly useful for general reference and interdisciplinary studies. Its value for advanced research is limited by missing data sources and sampling locations, inadequate explanatory text, and absent documentation of interpolation procedures, derived-property calculations, and scientific references. The reviewer recommends supplementary sampling-location charts, explanatory material, and a bibliography. The accompanying English pamphlet is criticized for omitting technical legends, providing an inadequate index, and repeatedly mistranslating scientific terminology; the publisher is urged to replace it.