COURSE MATERIAL:

All the material for OC4610 can be found in the handouts. NO TEXTBOOK REQUIRED

USEFUL BOOKS ON WAVE THEORY AND PREDICTION:

• Wind Waves: Their Generation and Propogation on the Oceanic Surface
  Blair Kinsman
  Dover Press, 1965, 676 pp.
  ISBN 0-486-64652-1
  (well written book focused on deep water wave generation, propogation and nonlinear interactions; some parts are outdated)

• The Dynamics of the Upper Ocean
  O.M. Phillips
  Cambridge University Press, 1977 (2nd edition), 336 pp.
  ISBN 0-521-21421-1
  (another good text with similar material as Kinsman's book, currently out of print)

• Water Waves: The Mathematical Theory with Applications
  J.J. Stoker
  John Wiley & Sons, 1958, 567 pp.
  ISBN 0-471-57034-6
  (good explanation of basic hydrodynamics and wave propogation in shallow water; rather mathematical approach and a bit outdated)

• Dynamics and Modelling of Ocean Waves
  G.J. Komen, L. Cavaleri, M. Donelan, K. Hasselmann, S. Hasselmann, and P.A.E.M. Janssen
  Cambridge University Press, 1994, 532 pp.
  ISBN 0-521-47047-1
  (very recent: final report of the WAM group describes in detail the scientific basis, numerical implementation, and applications of the WAM model: the emphasis is on deep water)

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