Dieses Buch erleichtert dem biologisch, chemisch oder geologisch interessierten Ozeanographen den Zugang zu den mathematischen Techniken, die er für seine tägliche Arbeit benötigt. Von den Grundlagen ausgehend, werden Methoden der Datenauswertung behandelt - lineare Regression, Korrelationsmethoden, Varianzanalyse, nichtlineare Techniken, numerische Integrationsverfahren und vieles andere mehr.

EDWARD LAWS is Professor of Oceanography and Assistant Vice President for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He holds a PhD from Harvard University in chemical physics and is the author of Aquatic Pollution, Second Edition, also published by Wiley. In 1994 he was the William McCurdy Fellow at the Duke University Marine Laboratory, and it was during that time that he wrote most of this book.