Part A. Instrumentation.
Slides:
 lecture1.pdf

Web references:
 PDF manual on ocean instrumentation
 PMEL outreach site: What is a CTD?
 Teri Chereskin's summary of her ongoing ADCP (and other) research
 Sippican's expendable probes
 WHOI PO department
 USGS: vector measuring current meter
 TOGA-TAO downloadable data
 TAO data display
 ARGO floats
 AOML surface drifters

Part B. Case Studies. Cited articles:

• W. D. Nowlin, Jr. and J. M. Klinck, 1986. The physics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Rev. Geophys., 24, 469-491.
• T. Whitworth, III, 1983. Monitoring the transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at Drake Passage, J. Phys. Oceanogr, 13, 2045-2057.
• T. Whitworth, III, and R. G. Peterson, 1985. The net transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current through Drake Passage, J. Phys. Oceanogr, 12, 960-971.
• K. A. Donohue, E. Firing, and S Chen, 2001. Absolute geostrophic velocity within the Subantarctic Front in the Pacific Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 19869-19882.
• S. T. Gille, 2001. Float Observations of the Southern Ocean: Part 1, Estimating Mean Fields, Bottom Velocities, and Topographic Steering, submitted to J. Phys. Oceanogr.
• J. F. Price, R. A. Weller, and R. R. Schudlich, 1987. Wind-driven ocean currents and Ekman Transport, Science, 238, 1534-1538.
• T. K. Chereskin, 1995. Evidence for an Ekman balance in the California Current, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 12727-12748.
• E. A. Ralph and P. P. Niiler, 1999. Wind-driven currents in the tropical Pacific, J. Phys. Oceanogr, 29, 2121-2129.