Descriptive Physical Oceanography

Lynne Talley is a Professor of Oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California San Diego. Lynne is a seagoing oceanographer with research interests in the water mass distributions and circulation of the world ocean. She is a graduate of Oberlin College (B.A. in physics) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program (Ph.D. in physical oceanography). She has been an editor of the Journal of Physical Oceanography and has served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR4 and AR5), many committees of the National Academy of Sciences, and planning and steering committees for major field programs, including the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) of the 1990s and the U.S. Global Ocean Carbon and Repeat Hydrography Program. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, the Oceanography Society, and the American Meteorological Society.

1. Introduction to descriptive physical oceanography 2. Ocean dimensions, shapes and bottom materials 3. Physical properties of seawater 4. Typical distributions of water characteristics 5. Mass, salt and heat budgets and wind forcing 6. Data analysis concepts and observational methods 7. Dynamical processes for descriptive ocean circulation 8. Gravity waves, tides, and coastal oceanography 9. Atlantic Ocean 10. Pacific Ocean 11. Indian Ocean 12. Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas 13. Southern Ocean 14. Global circulation and water properties

Supplemental texts (web only): Chapter S1: Brief history of physical oceanography; Chapter S7: (expanded) Dynamical processes for descriptive ocean circulation; Chapter S8: Gravity waves, tides, and coastal oceanography (additional materials); Chapter S15: Climate and the oceans; Chapter S16: Instruments and Methods