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Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography

A Prolonged Weekend Discussion with Walter Munk

Klaus Hasselmann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XXVI, 137 Seiten

2010 | 2010
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-12086-2 (ISBN)

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It all began with Markus Jochum approaching one of us (HvS) - "when you guys are doing interviews with senior scientists from oceanography and related sciences, why are you not doing Walter Munk?" Indeed, why not? Walter Munk, an icon in oceanography, had just given a wonderful talk in a symposium in honor of his 90th birthday, sweeping a grand circle from his earliest work with Chip Cox on airborne measurements of ocean surface roughness to the latest satellite data - not simply a review, but the struggle of an active scientist opening up new perspectives - as inspiring and stimulating as when one of us (KH) rst met him at the Ocean Waves Conference in Easton in 1961 (Fig. I. 1). Walter immediately agreed to share with us his recollections on the nearly seventy years of his path-breaking contributions in a sheer amazing range of topics, from ocean waves, internal waves, ocean currents, tides, tsunamis, sea level, microseisms and the rotation of the earth to ocean acoustic tomography. With "you guys" Markus was referring to HvS and the various partners HvS had 1 invited to join him in conducting a series of interviews of retired colleagues.

Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch ist Direktor des Instituts für Küstenforschung, GKSS, Geesthacht und lehrt am Institut für Meteorologie der Universität Hamburg.

Foreword - Carl Wunsch.- Foreward - Paul Gaffney.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Waves and wave spectra.- Oceanographers learn about power spectra.- Wave prediction.- Where the swell begins.- Coming to America.- Coming to America.- Caltech.- Serving in the Army.- Clearance problems.- Bikini (1946) and Eniwetok (1951).- Settling down at Scripps.- Munk finally gets his degree.- Wind-driven ocean circulation.- From waves to tides 1958-1968.- 6 Deep sea tides 1964.- The alleged suicide of Aristotle.- 7 Internal waves 1971 - 1981.- Ocean Acoustics 1974 .- The Gulf Stream sheds eddies.- The Mode experiments.- Ocean Acoustic Tomography.- Heard Island.- Whales.- The last twenty years.- Mohole 1957 - 1964.- The wobbling earth 1950 - 1960.- IGPP. 1962.- The Cambridge connection.- Finding the faculty.- Building the Laboratory.- Navy.- Finis.- Appendix.

From the reviews:

"It is ... a joyful romp through the history of oceanography that will appeal to both those in the field and those curious about it-touching not just on oceanography, but Earth sciences in general. ... So my recommendation is: Go ahead, get to know Walter. You'll be glad you did." (Jerome A. Smith, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, December, 2011)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2010
Zusatzinfo	XXVI, 137 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	455 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
Schlagworte	Geophysics • History of Science • Meereskunde • Meereskunde / Ozeanographie • MOHO • Munk, Walter • ocean • Oceanography • Oceanophy • Science Studies • Tide
ISBN-10	3-642-12086-5 / 3642120865
ISBN-13	978-3-642-12086-2 / 9783642120862
Zustand	Neuware