Introduction to Physical Oceanography by R. Stewart.
Based on the work of Robert Stewart
Robert Stewart's "Introduction to Physical Oceanography" was the first oceanography textbook for many students. It was always the free high-quality source of basic oceanographic knowledge. Robert Stewart retired in 2009 and did not update the book after that. With his permission, we now publish the latest version of the book's LaTeX source code on GitHub. Dr. Stewart gives his permission to update the book by fixing errors and adding new information. He has only two conditions:
Don’t let the book grow into an encyclopedia. It is an INTRODUCTION, leaving details to more expert and focused publications (which could also be on the web server). Keep the book focused on the most important issues students need to know about. Today, satellite oceanography needs to be emphasized as most of our knowledge comes from satellites and drifters.
My only request is that the book not be offered for sale. It should be open source and available to everyone at no cost.
We are going to update the book through the usual GitHub procedure with PRs and code review. Any help and contributions from the oceanographic community will be greatly appreciated.