Physical Oceanography

This book reviews the research in various fields of oceanography on the responses of the East Japan Sea to climate change. The uniqueness of the East Japan Sea comes from the rapid and amplified response to climate change, which includes long-terms trends of physical and chemical parameters at a rate that almost doubles or even higher the global rate.

This book on Descriptive Physical Oceanography contains the substance of courses on Physical Oceanography; Applied Oceanography; Oceanographic Methods; Coastal Oceanography and Oceanic Circulation taught by me and my colleagues for about thirty years in the Department of Fishery Oceanography at the College of Fisheries, Mangalore, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore to graduate, post-graduate and Ph.D. students specializing in Oceanography and Fishery Oceanography.