Regional Oceanography: an Introduction

Regional Oceanography: an Introduction is a textbook suitable for an advanced undergraduate course or for a course to introduce graduate students to the essentials of oceanography. The first edition was published by Pergamon Press. The second edition is published by Daya Publishing House, Delhi. It can be ordered through bookstores or from the publisher; the details are: Tomczak, Matthias & J Stuart Godfrey: Regional Oceanography: an Introduction 2nd edn (2003), xi+390p., figs., tabls., ind., 25 cm ISBN: 8170353068 (hardcover, US$89.95), 8170353076 (paperback, US$29.95). A colour version of the book can be downloaded free in pdf format. The pdf version uses the same text as the printed version but includes colour figures. The colour figures do not print well in black and white; if a black-and-white edition is required it should be obtained through a book shop or from Daya Publishing House. Download the pdf version here. In addition to the text and book figures this world wide web page provides access to colour versions of some of the figures contained in the book suitable for overhead displays. Unless indicated otherwise, all material is copyright to M. Tomczak and J. S. Godfrey. It is offered for use in teaching and for further study but not for dissemination in any form, be it printed or electronic. If you produce your own colour overheads from the web images you should give either the textbook or this web page as a reference. A four page set of errata sheets is availabe for the Pergamon version of the text and can be downloaded as pfd version here (It is not required for the second edition published by Daya Publishing House): page1, page 2, page 3, page 4. (You need Acrobat reader to read pdf files. Acrobat Reader can be downloaded free from Adobe.)

List of available web figures:

Atlantic Ocean coastline (Gall/Peters projection).

Indian Ocean coastline (Gall/Peters projection).

Pacific Ocean coastline (Gall/Peters projection).

Figure 1.1: Schematic diagram of meridional pressure distribution.

Figure 1.3a: Air pressure in July.

Figure 1.3b: Air pressure in January.

Figure 1.5: Global mean solar radiation.

Figure 1.6: Global net heat flux.

Figure 1.7: Global mean precipitation - evaporation.

Figure 2.6: Potential temperature.

Figure 2.7: Steric height, schematic.

Figure 3.1: Ocean subdivisions, schematic.

Figure 3.2: Geostrophy, schematic.

Figure 4.2: Wind stress curl and Ekman convergence, schematic.

Figure 5.3: Water mass formation by subduction.

Figure 6.1: Temperature profiles for four climate regions.

Figure 6.2: Topography of the Southern Ocean.

Figure 6.3: Air pressure over the Southern Ocean.

Figure 6.12 (additional): Evidence for westward coastal flow from ice berg drift.

Figure 7.2: Topography of the Arctic Ocean.

Figure 7.3: Air pressure over the Arctic Ocean.

Figure 7.13: The path of North Atlantic Bottom Water.

Figure 8.1: The interoceanic ridge system.

Figure 8.3: Topography of the Pacific Ocean.

Figure 8.5: The Intertropical and South Pacific Convergence Zones (ITCZ and SPCZ).

Figure 8.6: Pacific Ocean currents.

Figure 8.25: Dynamics of coastal upwelling.

Figure 11.1: Topography of the Indian Ocean.

Figure 11.2: The monsoon of the Indian Ocean, schematic.

Figure 11.3: Indian Ocean currents.

Figure 11.10: The East Madagascar Current.

Figure 12.1: Antarctic Bottom Water in the Indian Ocean.

Figure 12.4: Water masses in the thermocline of the Indian Ocean.

Figure 14.1: Topography of the Atlantic Ocean.

Figure 14.2: Atlantic Ocean currents.

Figure 14.7: The Gulf Stream.

Figure 14.16: The Benguela Current upwelling system.

Figure 14.17: The Canary Current upwelling system.

Figure 14.20: Upwelling along the coast of Ghana.

Figure 15.14: Barrier layer thickness, Atlantic Ocean.

Figure 19.2: The Southern Oscillation Index.

Figure 19.7: The ITCZ and the SPCZ.

Figure 19.8: A tropical cyclone pair.

Figure 19.10: Sketch of Kelvin wave dynamics.

Figure 20.13: Sketch of North Atlantic Deep Water formation.

No more figures will be added to this set, as the pdf version of the book with all-colour figures is now available.

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last update: 17/9/2001