Physical oceanography developments since 1950 /
Over the last five decades physical oceanography developed rapidly from a branch of fluid dynamics, with only a few observations, to a mature science with global field programs, large computer resources, and a complex theoretical framework. Today understanding of ice ages, global warming, or predict...
| Other Authors: | Jochum, Markus, 1969-, Murtugudde, Raghu., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
©2006.
Berlin ; New York : [2006] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Historial introduction; oceanography of the general circulation to the middle of the twentieth century / Bruce A. Warren
- Reminiscences of MODE / Francis Bretherton
- Modeling ocean circulation: 1960-1990, the weather bureau, and Princeton / Kirk Bryan
- Contribution to global ocean observations / Russ E. Davis
- On reconciling oceanic and atmospheric estimates of surface heat fluxes
- and on validating greenhouse models / J.S. Godfrey
- El Nino and ocean observation: a personal history / Michael J. McPhaden
- Reflections of an equatorial oceanographer / Dennis Wilson Moore
- Ocean acoustic tomography: from a stomy start to an uncertain future / Walter Munk
- A history of thermocline theory / Joseph Pedlosky
- Sextant to satellite: the education of a land-based oceanographer / S. George Philander
- Some advances and retreats in the study of ocean circulation since 1935 / Joseph L. Reid
- Towards the world ocean circulation experiment and a bit of aftermath / Carl Wunsch
- Interview with Klaus Wyrtki, 25 February 1999 ./ Hans von Storch, Jurgen Sundermann, and Lorenz Magaard.