Evolution of Physical Oceanography

Spring 2007

_Evolution of Physical Oceanography_ was created to mark the career of Henry M. Stommel, the leading physical oceanographer of the 20th Century and a longtime MIT faculty member. The authors of the different chapters were asked to describe the evolution of their subject over the history of physical oceanography, and to provide a survey of the state-of-the-art of their subject as of 1980. Many of the chapters in this textbook are still up-to-date descriptions of active scientific fields, and all of them are important historical records. This textbook is made available courtesy of The {{% resource_link "4eb4bdf2-f567-4b8f-b611-2a8fb8d72c86" "MIT Press" %}}.