- 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.*
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