Regional Oceanography:
an Introduction
This page provides access to the download version of Regional Oceanography: an Introduction. A paperback or hardbound copy of the second edition, published by Daya Publishing House, Delhi, 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). |
The printed edition from Daya Publishing House is in black and white. A colour version is offered online for free download in pdf format.* Check the version history before you download and verify which chapters have been updated recently.
In the interest of the environment we recommend that you print the book double-sided. This page gives you a choice to achieve that:
- single-sided: This version contains all pages in sequence. It is designed for single-sided printing. (Remember that we discourage single-sided printing). It is also the recommended version for printers that have the facility to print double-sided from continuous pagination. You can also use this version if your Adobe Reader* (the software required to read pdf files) has the option to print only the even or odd pages; you then print the odd pages first, place the paper back into your printer's paper tray and then print the even pages. I recommend that you check the procedure by experimenting with a few pages before printing the entire book.
- double-sided: This version contains all right (odd) pages and all left (even) pages in separate downloads and is designed to produce double-sided output on printers that can only print on one side of the paper. To produce double-sided output you print the right pages first, then insert the pages, preceeded by a blank page, back into the feeding tray of the printer and print the left pages. (The leading blank page is necessary to keep the pagination correct. It is notrequired if you use the single-sided version and Adobe Reader to print odd and even pages separately.) Again, I recommend that you check the procedure by experimenting with a few pages before printing the entire book.
The figures have a resolution of 600 bpi. As a result most files are in the 1 - 3 Mb range and will not fit on floppy disks. The high resolution has two advantages:
- The text and figures can be magnified on the screen without loss of quality, which makes it possible to use the illustrations for teaching in a classroom, using a computer projector.
- In most situations the print quality of the book is limited only by the printer resolution. Colour laser printers will produce output that comes very close to true book quality.
To keep file sizes down for modem downloads each chapter has to be downloaded separately. Pagination is continuous, with each chapter commencing with an odd page, so you can print out chapters individually.
As a guide for the download, below is an overview of the content. A more detailed contents list is included in the Title and Preface chapter.
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Chapters 1 - 5:
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Introduction and general principles (geostrophy, Ekman layer, Sverdrup balance)
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Chapters 6 - 7:
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Antarctic and Arctic oceanography
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Chapters 8 - 10:
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The Pacific Ocean
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Chapters 11 - 13:
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The Indian Ocean
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Chapters 14 - 16:
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The Atlantic Ocean
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Chapter 17:
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Aspects of advanced regional oceanography
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Chapters 18 - 20:
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The ocean and climate
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* The pdf format is a format to read and print documents on any platform. It uses Acrobat reader, which can be downloaded free from Adobe.
© 2001 - 2003 M. Tomczak and J. S. Godfrey, contact address:
web address of this page: http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/regoc/pdfversion.html
last update: 13/1/2003