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Title: Kings of the deep: Gray and humpback whales vacation on Mexico's Pacific coast, to the delight of tourists and oceanographers alike. (Living in Mexico).
Author: Patricia Alisau
Publication: Business Mexico (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico A.C.
Volume: 12Issue: 5Page: 58(4)

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Book Description
Oceanography calls for a wide variety of mathematical and statistical techniques, and this accessible treatment provides the basics every oceanographer needs to know, including

• Practical ways to deal with chemical, geological, and biological oceanographic data
• Instructions on detecting the existence of patterns in what appears to be noise
• Numerous examples from the field that highlight the application of the methods presented

Written by an oceanographer and based on his successful course at the University of Hawaii, the volume is well suited to a two-semester course at the graduate level. The book reviews the necessary calculus, clarifies statistical concepts, and includes end-of-chapter problems that illustrate and expand the various topics. Tips on using MATLAB(r) software in matrix operations complement chapters that deal with the formulation of relationships in terms of matrices.

The main body of the text covers the actual methods of dealing with data—including least squares and linear regression, correlation functions and analysis of variance, means and error bounds, nonlinear techniques and weighted least squares, numerical integration, and other modeling techniques. Unlike most introductory texts, Mathematical Methods for Oceanographers discusses regression methods in great detail, and includes an analysis of why certain methods produce unbiased parameter estimates. Finally, the chapter on time series analysis covers an area of particular interest to physical oceanographers.

The numerous problems and solutions included in the book enable readers to check their understanding of concepts and techniques as well as their ability to apply what they have learned.

A must-read for students of oceanography, this text/reference is also useful for professionals in the field, as well as for fisheries scientists, biologists, and those in the environmental sciences.

A systematic introduction to the mathematics oceanographers need

Topics covered in Mathematical Methods for Oceanographers include:

• A review of the necessary calculus
• Model I linear regression
• Correlation analysis
• Model II linear regression
• Polynomial curve fitting, linear multiple regression analysis, and nonlinear least squares
• Numerical integration
• Box models
• Time series analysis

Customer Reviews (1)

Excellent!
Sound, thorough, readable and practical.Keep it handy when it comes time to make sense of all those data points you struggled to collect at sea. ... Read more

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An amazing experience
Being myself an oceanographer (PhD), this book surprisingly came to me by chance. I knew the author and his work as much as I have never heard of this amazing small book, and I left it lying about on my desk during acouple of weeks before thinking about its reading. I was initially notenthusiastic, expecting another "boring" theoretical textbook on the oceancirculation. But to my surprise, the book is a fun read. Written as adialogue it leads the reader to deal with concepts that otherwise couldhave been really difficult to apprehend for non specialists. Here noequations, mathematical terms or esoteric scientific thinking. On thecontrary, here science is fun, really fun, intuitive and reallyunderstandable for everybody. This book is really more than apopularization book, it does not even seem to deal with scientific things!It is just an informal discussion between two persons with two differentpassionate views of the sea, including some fun anecdotes undeceivingscientific work at sea, but nevertheless very strong scientific thinking onthe functioning of the ocean circulation and the amazing feeling of theauthor enthusiasm for his work. More specifically, some computer programsdevoted to the visualization of different ocean circulation patterns can befound in annex, and could still, almost 15 years after their initialwriting, be an excellent starting point for undergraduate and graduatestudents on ocean sciences. This book is a wonderful experience I highlyrecommend to anybody wants to have an easy, but complete "view on the sea". ... Read more

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An excellent introduction to Satellite Oceanography
The author explains in a clear and consice manner the background to satellite oceanography.It firstly introduces the student to this excitingfield of study.It then clearly teaches the underlying mathematics.Theauthor carefully guides the student through what could be a mathematicalminefield - he succeeds where many other books have failed.Throughout thebook there are plentiful well laid out diagrams and real satellite imagesto demonstrate the points being made.I have used this book for myunddergraduate studies and found it to be very helpful in passing my finalexaminations.All in all a very good book! ... Read more