This second edition retains the general structure of the first edition, but<br>has been updated in the light of recent oceanographic research, and improved<br>as a teaching text on the basis of feedback from past students and other<br>readers.<br><br>Notable additions include new sections addressing the topic of<br>numerical modelling, and more discussion of natural oscillations in the<br>ocean-atmosphere system (previously confined to the El Niño phenomenon). In<br>particular, the Chapter on the North Atlantic now includes a discussion of<br>the North Atlantic Oscillation, as well as of the Great Salinity Anomaly. In<br>the final Chapter, treatment of water mass formation has been updated to<br>reflect recent ideas about the processes involved and how they relate to<br>climatic change over different time-scales, from decades to millennia. <br><br><br><br>High quality full colour diagrams<br>Substantial chapter summaries ideal for revision<br>Answers, hints and notes for questions at back of the book<br>