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Texts and other readings will be placed in the library under reserve
for W4925x.
A web site is under construction (www.columbia.edu/itc/ldeo/gordon/w4925).
I hope to place key figures used in the lectures on that site. The course
web site provides links to many useful oceanographic sites, e.g. ttp://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/IntroOc/newstart.html
many also serve as data sources, e.g. http://rainbow.ldeo.columbia.edu/
and http://www.giss.nasa.gov/
Texts [placed on library reserve]
- OUT OF PRINT, USE LIBRARY COPY "Regional Oceanography:
An Introduction" by Matthias Tomczak and J. Stuart Godfrey,
Pergamon Press, London, U.K. 1994 422 pages. Hardcover
and Flexicover. ISBN 0-08-041020-0 [This provides a very good
description of the stratification and circulation of the ocean. It would
serve as a convenient reference for your future work, should that involve
knowing something about the ocean. Its main use in this course is for
the later lectures that deal with regional topics]
- Ocean circulation and climate” 2001 eds Siedler,
Church and Gould. Academic Press.
To replace the Tomczak & Godfrey book, the CU bookstore ordered about
10 copies of:
- Open University Text (Pergamon Press), 2001 Ocean Circulation
[ a nice intro to ocean stratification and circulation]
and
- Pond and Pickard "Intro Dynamical Oceanography" Pergamon
Press. 1983 [a good introduction to the governing equations]
Two very nice books of a more quantitative nature are [I do not assign
specific chapters from these books; they are useful for the advection/diffusion
and for Equation of Motion lectures]:
- Cushman-Roisin, Benoit. Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
Prentice-Hall, 1994 (A few copies are available for purchase in
the bookstore).
- Pedlosky, J. "Ocean Circulation Theory" Springer 1996
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