Foreword by Editors (Jochum, M. and Murtugudde, R.) A Historical Introduction: Oceanography of the General Circulation to the Middle of the Twentieth Century (Warren, B.) Reminiscences of MODE (Bretherton, F.) Modeling Ocean Circulation: 1960-1990, The Weather Bureau and Princeton (Bryan, K.) Contributions to Global Ocean Observations (Davis, R.) On Reconciling Atmospheric and Oceanic Estimates of Surface Heat Fluxes - and on Validating Greenhouse Models (Godfrey, S.) El Nino and Ocean Observations: A Personal History (McPhaden, M.) Reflections of an Equatorial Oceanographer (Moore, D.) Ocean Acoustic Tomography (Munk, W.) A History of Thermocline Theory (Pedlosky, J.) From Sextants to Satellites: The Education of a Land-based Oceanographer (Philander, G.) Some Advances and Retreats in the Study of Ocean Circulation Since 1935 (Reid, J.) Towards World Ocean Circulation Experiment and a Bit of Aftermath (Wunsch, C.) Interview by von Storch, Suendermann and Magaard (Wyrtki, K.) Bibliography of selected titles Index