An Introduction to Physical Oceanography

version history

• version 1.0
  produced 1996 - 1998, in final form 12 October 1998.

• version 1.01
  
  1. location and topography map added to Figure 10.9 (22 October 1998)
  2. font colour changed in the text to the map of lecture 8, to clarify the extent of the quotation from the ims newsletter (22 October 1998)
  3. announcement of availability through IOC/UNESCO added (4 December 1998)
  4. frame organisation changed so the Lecture Notes always display in the main window (8 March 1999)
  5. horizontal scale added to Figure 5.4 (2 June 1999)
  6. all pages made fully compliant with HTML 3.2 Final or HTML 4.0 Frameset (21 June 1999)
  7. animation added to Figures 10.2, 10.3 and 10.7 (30 June 1999)
  8. ENSO animation added to Lecture 8 (1 July 1999)
  9. Figure 11.1 improved, amphidromic point animation added to Lecture 11 (2 July 1999)
  10. animation added to Figure 6.1 (6 July 1999)
  11. seawater density calculator added to chapter 3 and sound speed calculator to chapter 5 (1 September 1999)
  12. Study Web logo and award notice added in contents page (8 October 1999)
• version 1.1
  
  1. peer reviewed version installed for Lectures 4, 7, 8 and 12 (25 November 1999)
  2. QuickTime Player option for ENSO animation installed in Lecture 8 (25 November 1999)
  3. Figure 11.1 amended (response to reviewer comment) (25 November 1999)
  4. User guide "How to use these notes" added (26 November 1999)
  5. Lecture notes linked to Basic Exercises in Physical Oceanography version 1.0 (3 December 1999)
  6. peer reviewed version installed for Lectures 6 and 9 (9 December 1999)
  7. improved the text of Lecture 3 (10 December 1999)
  8. Browser set-up instructions added to user guide (22 December 1999)
  9. Information on conditions for CD-ROM purchase from North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand added (22 December 1999)
  10. Lecture 13 (Oceanographic ibnstrumentation) added (31 December 1999)
  11. Explanation of names of currents added to Figure 2.2 (13 January 2000)
  12. improved the discussion of practical salinity in Lecture 3 (8 February 2000)

CD-ROM version 1.1 produced 10 February 2000
(includes An Introduction to Physical Oceanography and Basic Exercises in Physical Oceanography)

• version 2.0 (bilingual English/Spanish version)
  
  1. bilingual front page and Spanish version of lectures 4 and 10 installed (8 February 2000)
  2. animation for revolution with and without rotation installed for Lecture 11; peer reviewed version installed for Lecture 11 (24 February 2000)
  3. Spanish version of lecture 9 installed (29 February 2000)
  4. peer reviewed version installed for Lecture 13 (17 March 2000)
  5. Spanish version of lecture 11 installed (21 March 2000)
  6. Spanish version of lecture 7 installed (13 April 2000)
  7. Lecture notes linked to Utilities version 1.0 (26 April 2000).
  8. Lecture notes linked to Shelf and Coastal Oceanography version 1.0. Spanish version of lectures 6 and 12 and Introduction 1 installed (2 June 2000).
  9. Spanish version of lectures 3 and 8 installed (22 June 2000).
  10. Error in conversion factor from km³ year^-1 to Sv corrected in lecture 4 (17 July 2000).
  11. Spanish version of lecture 2 installed (21 July 2000).
  12. English version of Introduction 1 and Introduction 2 finalised (23 July 2000).
  13. Spanish version of lecture 1 installed (25 July 2000).
  14. Internet links installed for all English lectures (11 August 2000).
  15. Spanish version of introduction 2 installed and Spanish version of introduction 1 finalised; internet links installed for all Spanish lectures (30 August 2000).
  16. Spanish version of lecture 13 installed; Spanish version completed (14 September 2000).

CD-ROM version 2.0 produced 3 October 2000 (bilingual English and Spanish).

• version 2.1
  
  1. water budget table in Introduction 2 totally replaced and based on UNESCO data (13 February 2001).
  2. Coriolis animation and additional text to geostrophy added in lecture 6 (26 March 2001).

CD-ROM version 3.1 produced 17 September 2001.

CD-ROM version 4.0 produced15 April 2002.

• version 4.1
  
  1. Figure 6.5 improved (OceanAtlas section replaced by JavaOceanAtlas section; 25 May 2002).
  2. Text related to the original definition of salinity in Lecture 3 improved (8 August 2002).
  3. Text added to Lecture 5 to account for iron as a growth-limiting trace metal (25 April 2003).
  4. First lectures of the Portuguese version added (29 January 2004).
  5. Figure 4.1 replaced by a better graphic, with no change of information content (10 February 2004).
  6. Two tables for the carbon budget and carbon flux budget added to Introduction 2 (11 February 2004).
  7. Figure 13.8a and some text on Arbo floats added to Lecture 13 (11 February 2004).
  8. Text of lecture 9 changed to eliminate a mix-up between H1/3 and H1/10 (22 February 2005).
  9. Figure 9.5 changed to correct the description of the use of the diagram (3 March 2005).
  10. Text of lecture 9 amended by including suggestions from Herman C. Peters (3 March 2005).
  11. Text on the gravitational and tide-generating forces in lecture 11 amended in response to comments from Herman C. Peters (6 March 2005).
  12. Lecture 10 updated to include the tsunami of 26 December 2004; this includes one new figure and one additional animation (4 April 2005).

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