Physical Oceanography (eBook)

Developments Since 1950

Markus Jochum, Raghu Murtugudde (Herausgeber)

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2006
XII, 250 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-33152-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Unique combination and integrated assessment of three major fields in physical oceanography

 

Providing both in depth scientific views and a historical overview

 

Very prominent and reknown authors brought together

Markus Jochum is an associate editor of Journal of Geophysical Research and Raghu Murtugudde is editor of Journal of Geophysical Research and associate editor of Journal of Climate.

The list of authors includes prominent scientists: Warren, Bretherton, Bryan, Davis, Godfrey, McPhaden, Moore, Munk, Pedlosky, Philander, Reid, Wunsch, and Wyrtki.

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Over the last ?ve decades Physical Oceanography developed explosively from a state with only a few observations and theories to a mature science with global ?eld p- grams,massivecomputerpower,andacomplextheoreticalframework. Thescientists wholedthisdevelopmentarealreadyorwillsoonberetired. Thiscollectionofessays documentssomeofthebreakthroughsandalsotriestocapturethespiritofexploration and excitement that accompanied these developments. Theoriginalmotivationforthepresentbookcamefromourdesiretounderstand the current social and scienti?c framework in which we work as physical ocean- raphers. Brief re?ection makes it obvious that this framework must have historical roots. However, discussions about these roots with senior scientists only made the picture more complex and confusing. We came to the conclusion that there is no simple story that explains the current state of affairs. The natural solution was to let seniorscientiststellhowtheyperceivedthedevelopmentsinthe?eld,eachfromtheir own unique point of view. Thus, by surrendering editorial objectivity we arrived at a broader, more objective view. The approach is comparable to data acquisition: it is known that there are no perfect observations, so one makes many. The goal then is to reduce biases by sampling as often as possible. However, to keep the book at a manageable size and still give the individual authors space enough to cover several decades, we were limited to 10 to 20 authors whose contributions should not exceed 20 pages. Thus, the book is by no means a complete history of physical oceanography; many important scientists and subdisciplines of the ?eld are not accounted for.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2006
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 250 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: climate change • ocean • Oceanography • Satellite • Weather
• ISBN-10: 0-387-33152-2 / 0387331522
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-33152-2 / 9780387331522