A major task for physical oceanographers is to determine the movement of oceanic water from observations. This book introduces the P-vector inverse method, with a two-step determination of the velocity from hydrographic data.

Simple and efficient description of the topic

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Analysis of Observational (T,S) Profiles.- Establishment of Gridded (T,S) Fields.- Coordinate Systems.- P-Vector.- Determination of Speed Parameter.- Variational P-Vector Method.- Determination of Volume Transport Stream Function.- C-Vector for Identifying Oceanic Secondary Circulations.- Datasets.- Inverted Circulations in the Pacific Basin.- Inverted Circulations in the Atlantic Basin.- Inverted Circulations for the Southern Ocean.- Inverted Circulations in the Arctic Mediterranean Seas.- Applications to Data Assimilation.- Applications in Numerical Modeling and Simulation.