Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography : A Prolonged Weekend Discussion with Walter Munk /
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Formato: | eBook |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2010. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.