CONTENTS 



AUTHOR'S NOTE. . . page 7 



Oceanometrics defined. , . 8 



INTRODUCTION. . . U 



THE REGRESSION MODEL. ..72 

 Seasonal variation. . . 13 

 Latitudinal variation. . . 21 

 Longitudinal variation. . . 28 

 Interactions, . . 35 

 Summary. . . 36 



RESULTS OF REGRESSION ANALYSIS. . . 37 



DISCUSSION... 67 



Time/space consistency. . . 67 

 Time/space distribution. . . 68 

 Data screening. . . 70 

 Anomaly detection. . . 73 

 Summarization of historical data. . . 75 



CONCLUSIONS... 79 



RECOMMENDATIONS. . . 81 



REFERENCES. . . 83 



