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Essentials of Oceanography
Eliza Richardson · Pennsylvania State University
This text introduces knowledge and broadens understanding of the oceans and their role in climate, coastal processes, and life within the fluid Earth. Students will gain insight into the physical and chemical processes that determine properties of the ocean and govern interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, groundwater, and the fluid/solid Earth. Topics will reinforce fundamental scientific principles.
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OCEAN-101: Fundamentals of Oceanography
Keddy Elizabeth · Diablo Valley College
In the contents: 01: Introduction to Oceanography · 3.03: Voyages for Oceanography · 09: Chemical Oceanography
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Oceanography
Hill et al. · University of California, Davis
In the contents: 1.3: Voyages for Oceanography
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Introduction to Oceanography
Paul Webb · Roger Williams University
In the contents: 05: Chemical Oceanography · 06: Physical Oceanography · 13: Coastal Oceanography
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Introduction to Physical Oceanography
Robert H. Stewart · Texas A & M University
In the contents: 2.5: The Role of Observation in Oceanography · 15.2: Numerical Models in Oceanography
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Introduction to Oceanography (Sierra College Edition)
Allison D. Jones · Sierra College
In the contents: 05: Chemical Oceanography · 06: Physical Oceanography · 13: Coastal Oceanography
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Oceanography 101
Miracosta College · LibreTexts
In the contents: 01: Introduction to Oceanography · 1.01: What is Oceanography · 1.04: Essential Science Review Concepts for Oceanography
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GEL 116: Oceanography
Tessa Hill · University of California, Davis
Oceanography is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean and covers a wide range of topics, including marine organisms and ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics; plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor; and fluxes of various chemical substances and physical properties within the ocean and across its boundaries.
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Introduction to Oceanography
Paul Webb · Rebus Community · 2019
Introduction to Oceanography is a textbook appropriate to an introductory-level university course in oceanography. The book covers the fundamental geological, chemical, physical and biological processes in the ocean, with an emphasis on the North Atlantic region.
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Introduction to Physical Oceanography
Robert Stewart · 2008
This textbook covers physical-oceanographic processes, theories, data, and measurements, targeted at upper-division undergraduates and graduate students in oceanography, meteorology, and ocean engineering. In addition to the classical topics, the author includes discussions of heat fluxes, the role of the ocean in climate, the deep circulation, equatorial processes including El Nino, data bases used by oceanographers, the role of satellites and data from space, ship-based measurements, and the importance of vorticity in understanding oceanic flows. Students should have studied differential equations and introductory college physics, although math is de-emphasized.
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Geophysical Flows
Anne Willem Omta · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Oceans of Data
Tasha Gownaris · Gettysburg College
This introductory oceanography book explores the oceans as interconnected geological, chemical, physical, and biological systems. Topics include plate tectonics, ocean sediments, seawater properties, climate and circulation, carbon cycling, ocean acidification, El Niño, and marine productivity, showing how ocean processes shape Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and environment.
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All Things Flow: Fluid Mechanics for the Natural Sciences
William Smyth · Oregon State University · 2019
This book began as lecture notes for an Oregon State University course in fluid mechanics, designed for beginning graduate students in physical oceanography. Because of its fundamental nature, this course is often taken by students outside physical oceanography, e.g., atmospheric science, civil engineering, physics and mathematics. In later courses, the student will discover esoteric fluid phenomena such as internal waves that propagate through the sky, water phase changes that govern clouds, and planetary rotation effects that control large-scale winds and ocean currents. In contrast, this course concerns phenomena that we have all been familiar with since childhood: flows you see in sinks and bathtubs, in rivers, and at the beach. In this context, we develop the mathematical techniques and scientific reasoning skills needed for higher-level courses and professional research.
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Coastal Dynamics
Judith Bosboom & Marcel J.F. Stive · Delft University of Technology
This textbook focuses on the interrelation between physical wave, flow and sediment transport phenomena and the resulting morphodynamics of a wide variety of coastal systems. It is unique in that it explicitly connects the dynamics of open coasts and tidal basins; not only is the interaction between open coasts and tidal basins of basic importance for the evolution of most coastal systems, but describing the similarities between their physical processes is highly instructive as well.
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Introduction to Ocean Sciences 6e
Douglas A. Segar · American Meteorological Society
In the contents: 2.01: What is Oceanography · 3.05: Chemical and Physical Oceanography
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Our World Ocean: Understanding the Most Important Ecosystem on Earth
W. Sean Chamberlin, Nicki Shaw, and Martha Rich · Fullerton College
In the contents: 02: Team Oceanography · 3.01: The Birth of Oceanography · 4.11: Satellite Oceanography
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Marine Biology Laboratory
Kevin Raskoff · Monterey Peninsula College
In the contents: 02: Physical Oceanography- Measurement Density and Buoyancy
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Introduction to Earth Science (C-ID: GEOL 121)
Timothy Ellsworth · Coalinga College
In the contents: 3.14: Coastal Oceanography