Descriptive Physical Oceanography - Talley, Lynne D. (Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA)

Introduces descriptive physical oceanography. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this title covers such topics as: the physical properties of seawater, heat and salt budgets, instrumentation, data analysis methods, introductory dynamics, oceanography and climate variability of the oceans and of the global ocean.