Introduction To Physical Oceanography

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Introduction ToPhysical OceanographyRobert H. StewartDepartment of OceanographyTexas A & M UniversityCopyright 2006September 2006 EditioniiContentsPrefacevii1 A Voyage of Physics of the ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Big Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Further Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 The Historical Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eras of Oceanographic Exploration.

At the most basic level, I hope you, the students who are reading this text, will become aware of some of the major conceptual schemes (or theories) that form the foundation of physical oceanography, how they were arrived at, and why they are widely accepted, how oceanographers achieve order out of a ran-

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