Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography : A Prolonged Weekend Discussion with Walter Munk /

Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography : A Prolonged Weekend Discussion with Walter Munk /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hasselmann, Klaus. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edition:1st ed. 2010.
Subjects:
Oceanography.
History.
Geophysics.
History of Science.
Geophysics and Environmental Physics.
Geophysics/Geodesy.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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