Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Data acquisition and recording -- Data processing and presentation -- Statistical methods and error handling -- The spatial analyses of data fields -- Time series analysis methods -- Digital filters -- References -- Appendix A: units in physical oceanography -- Appendix B: glossary of statistical terminology -- Appendix C: means, variances and moment-generating functions for some common continuous variables -- Appendix D: statistical tables -- Appendix E: coefficients at the 5% and 1% levels of significance for various degrees of freedom -- Appendix F: approximations and nondimensional numbers in physical oceanography -- Appendix G: convolution -- Index.