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1. General wave concepts and kinematics
   1. Wave kinematics: amplitude, phase, wave number, frequency, phase velocity, dispersion relation
   2. method of stationary phase, group velocity, energy flux
   3. slowly varying media: conservation of crests, ray equations
2. Surface gravity waves
   1. potential theory, deep-water waves
   2. shallow water waves
   3. energy and energy equation
   4. initial value problem — slowly varying medium
3. Internal gravity waves
   1. internal wave equation
   2. unbounded stratified fluid
   3. internal waves modified by rotation — unbounded fluid
   4. variable buoyancy frequency — slowly varying medium
   5. the oceanic wave-guide for a stratified, rotating fluid
   6. internal wave reflection from a solid boundary
4. Waves in homogenous, rotating flows
   1. Laplace's tidal equations: horizontal and vertical structure equations
   2. Poincare' and Kelvin waves
   3. Rossby or planetary waves
   4. quasi-geostrophic Rossby waves
   5. reflection of Rossby waves
   6. equatorial beta plane, equatorial waves
5. Topographic effects
   1. topographic Rossby waves
   2. bottom-trapped waves
   3. edge and continental shelf waves
   4. coastal-trapped waves in a stratified fluid
6. Wave-mean flow interactions
   1. vertical propagation of waves: steady flow, radiation condition
   2. Rossby waves with stratification
   3. quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity equation in a stratified atmosphere
   4. topographically forced, steady Rossby waves over a zonal flow: atmosphere
   5. waves over a mean flow: ocean
   6. Eady problem
   7. energetics for instability conditions

Pedlosky, Joseph. Waves in the Ocean and Atmosphere Introduction to Wave Dynamics. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2003, p. 260. ISBN: 9783540003403.

Gill, Adrian. Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1982, p. 662. ISBN: 9780122835223.