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 by Klaus Hasselmann (Author). The present quantity paperwork a hearth discussion with the world famed oceanographer, Walter Munk, and gives the reader, whether scientist or surfer, an uncommon perception into a lifetime of passion for oceanography and geophysics. The ebook highlights the pioneering contributions Walter has made to wave prediction, ocean circulation, tides and their role within the Earth’s dynamics, inner waves, and ocean acoustic Thermometry. It celebrates his zest for all times and family, as well as his lasting curiosity. Munk’s profession, spanning 70 years of innovation, has impressed generations.

This glorious e book summarizes in a casual, conversational type the exceptional life and achievements of American oceanographer and geophysicist Walter Munk, born in Vienna in 1917 and dispatched by his household to boarding college in New York at the age of 15 - and the rest is scientific history. Along with a layman's look at Munk's elegant explanations of phenomena such because the Moon's tidal locking, the ocean's wind-pushed gyres, imaginative experiments like Mission Mohole and so on, the reader will get a sense of his charming and infrequently mischievous personality. I think there may be new data here even for Walter Munk's close colleagues. 

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

 Klaus Hasselmann (Author)

200 pages

Springer; 2010 edition (April 19, 2010)

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