An Introduction to Physical Oceanography Version 4.1  April 2002 Contents:

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• How to use these notes.
  
• Introduction 1: An opening lecture.
  
• Introduction 2: Qualitative description and quantitative science.
  
• Lecture 1: Introduction, projections, ocean topography.
  
• Lecture 2: Objects of study in physical oceanography, the geographical framework.
  
• Lecture 3: Properties of seawater, the concept of salinity.
  
• Lecture 4: The global oceanic heat and mass (freshwater) budgets. *
  
• Lecture 5: Depth distribution of temperature, salinity and nutrients; stratification.
  
• Lecture 6: Aspects of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. *
  
• Lecture 7: Thermohaline processes, water masses. *
  
• Lecture 8: The ocean and climate. *
  
• Lecture 9: Wave classification, dispersion, wind waves. *
  
• Lecture 10: Long waves: tsunamis, seiches, internal waves. *
  
• Lecture 11: Long waves: tides. *
  
• Lecture12: Estuaries. *
  
• Lecture13: Oceanographic instrumentation. *
  

• Exercises in Physical Oceanography
  
• Shelf and Coastal Oceanography
  
• Regional Oceanography
  
• Oceanographic utilities.

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