Required texts:

Carton, 2005: Course notes

Tomczak, Matthias & J Stuart Godfrey, 2003: Regional Oceanography: an Introduction 2nd edn, xi+390p., figs., tabls., ind., 25 cmwww.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/regoc/pdfversion.html.

Emery, Talley and Pickard (Draft, 2005) Descriptive Physical Oceanography. www-pord.ucsd.edu/~ltalley/sio210/pickard_emery/

 

Recommended general reading:

Siedler, G., J. Church, and J. Gould, ed.s 2001: Ocean circulation and climate, Academic Press, ISBN 0126413517


Ocean dynamics

Gill, A.E., 1982: Atmosphere - Ocean Dynamics , Academic Press,  New York, . ($56 for the paperback version on Amazon.com

Pedlosky, J., Ocean Circulation Theory, Springer-Verlag,  450pp, ISBN 3-540-60489-8.

Abarbanel, H. and W. Young (ed.s), General circulation of the ocean , Springer-Verlag, 1986, 291 pp. ISBN 0-387-96354-5.

Knauss, J., Introduction to Physical Oceanography, Prentice Hall, 1978, 338pp.

 

Descriptive physical oceanography

G.L. Picard, and W.J. Emery, Descriptive Physical Oceanography , 5 sup th edition, Pergamon Press, 1990, 249 pp. ISBN 0-08-037952-4.

Peixoto, J.P., and A. Oort, Physics of Climate, American Institute of Physics, 1992, 520pp, ISBN 0-88318-712-4.

Lee-Lueng Fu (Editor), Anny Cazenave, Satellite Altimetry and Earth Sciences: A Handbook of Techniques and Applications, 2000, ISBN: 0122695453

 

Biology/Chemistry

Wigley, T.M.L., and D.S. Schimel, The Carbon Cycle, Cambridge, 292pp., ISBN 0521583373.

Broecker, W.S., and T.-H. Peng, Tracers in the Sea, Eldigio Press, 1982. Contact authors for copies.

Millero, F., and M.L. Sohn, Chemical Oceanography, CRC Press, 1991, 531pp. ISBN 0-8493-8840-6.

Parsons, T.R., M. Takahashi, and B. Hargrave, Biological Oceanographic Processes, Pergamon Press, 1988, 330pp. ISBN 0-08-030765-5.