Exercises in Physical Oceanography

These exercises accompany the teaching of physical oceanography at the Flinders University of South Australia. They consist of two groups of activities.

• Basic Exercises in Physical Oceanography expand the material contained in the lectures An Introduction to Physical Oceanography. The exercises were originally developed as replacement for face-to-face teaching, in response to the shrinking university budget of the early 1990s. Over the years they have shown their value for students in off-campus locations and those engaging in evening studies.
• Advanced Exercises in Physical Oceanography were developed to accompany the textbook Regional Oceanography: an Introduction by Matthias Tomczak and J. Stuart Godfrey. They are designed to give deeper insight into the material covered in the text and to encourage own investigations.

The original exercises were written in propriatory software and could therefore only be used in the computer laboratories of Flinders University. The advent of the world wide web and JavaScript made it possible to transfer the exercises into a format which makes them accessible to anyone. The only requirement is a browser with JavaScript and LiveConnect capability. Some browsers cannot handle LiveConnect. See the info page for full details.

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