Acknowledgments
The book is based on the (mandatory) course on Dynamical Oceanography
which I gave for several years at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research
Utrecht (IMAU) which is within the Department of Physics and Astronomy of
Utrecht University, the Netherlands. I want to thank Will de Ruijter for his support
of all my activities at the IMAU and for his efforts to make the IMAU such a
pleasant and interesting place to work. His comments on the chapters 1 to 6 have
been very valuable and for the material in the chapters 1 to 3, I have benefitted
from notes of his course ‘Introduction to Physical Oceanography’.
My former Ph.D. student Lianke te Raa is thanked for the efficient collaboration during the courses on Dynamical Oceanography at IMAU. Her comments on
the chapters 13 and 14 are gratefully acknowledged as well as her input on the
exercises. Leela Frankcombe read the entire manuscript and corrected much of
the text and many equations. Ole Anders Nøst (Norsk Polar Institute, Norway)
kindly provided files of figures for chapter 15.
My publishers at Springer (first Geert Jan Geraeds and later Chris Bendall) are
thanked for their stimulus to complete this book. Laurence Mysak is thanked for
his useful comments on parts of an early version of the text and for suggesting to
include a chapter on the Arctic Ocean circulation.
The many students who have been actively involved in the IMAU courses on
Dynamical Oceanography over the years are thanked for their patience, enthusiasm and input. Finally, my wife Julia contributed to the writing of this book in
her own special way. I thank her for her patience and understanding.
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The book is based on the (mandatory) course on Dynamical Oceanography
which I gave for several years at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research
Utrecht (IMAU) which is within the Department of Physics and Astronomy of
Utrecht University, the Netherlands. I want to thank Will de Ruijter for his support
of all my activities at the IMAU and for his efforts to make the IMAU such a
pleasant and interesting place to work. His comments on the chapters 1 to 6 have
been very valuable and for the material in the chapters 1 to 3, I have benefitted
from notes of his course ‘Introduction to Physical Oceanography’.
My former Ph.D. student Lianke te Raa is thanked for the efficient collaboration during the courses on Dynamical Oceanography at IMAU. Her comments on
the chapters 13 and 14 are gratefully acknowledged as well as her input on the
exercises. Leela Frankcombe read the entire manuscript and corrected much of
the text and many equations. Ole Anders Nøst (Norsk Polar Institute, Norway)
kindly provided files of figures for chapter 15.
My publishers at Springer (first Geert Jan Geraeds and later Chris Bendall) are
thanked for their stimulus to complete this book. Laurence Mysak is thanked for
his useful comments on parts of an early version of the text and for suggesting to
include a chapter on the Arctic Ocean circulation.
The many students who have been actively involved in the IMAU courses on
Dynamical Oceanography over the years are thanked for their patience, enthusiasm and input. Finally, my wife Julia contributed to the writing of this book in
her own special way. I thank her for her patience and understanding.
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