Some reference books for physical oceanography and marine sciences in general

M. Grant Gross: Oceanography, a view of the earth. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1972

William A. Anikouchine and Richard W. Sternberg: The World Ocean, an introduction to oceanography. McGraw-Hill, New York 1974

Joseph Weisberg and Howard Parish: Introductory Oceanography. McGraw-Hill, New York 1974

Keith Stowe: Ocean Science. John Wiley and Sons, New York 2nd Edition 1979

J. Michael McCormick and John V. Thiruvatakal: Elements of Oceanography. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia 2nd Edition 1981

John A. Black: Oceans and Coasts, an introduction to oceanography. Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque 1986

Paul R. Pinet: Oceanography, an introduction to the planet Oceanus. West Publishing Company St. Paul 1992

Alison B. Duxbury and Alyn C. Duxbury: Fundamentals of Oceanography. Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque 1993

Harold V. Thurman: Essentials of Oceanography. Macmillan, New York 4th Edition 1993

M. Grant Gross: Oceanography, a view of the earth. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 6th Edition 1993

Tom Garrison: Oceanography, an Invitation to Marine Sciences. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont California 1993

Harold V. Thurman: Introductory Oceanography. Macmillan, New York 7th edition 1994

David A. Ross: Introduction to Oceanography. Harper Collins New York 1995

Matthias Tomczak and Gunther Krause: Do Marine Scientists have a Scientific View of the Earth? Oceanography 8, 11-16 (1995).

Harold V. Thurman: Essentials of Oceanography. Macmillan, New York 5th Edition 1996

Douglas A. Segar: Introduction to Ocean Sciences. Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont 1998