Walter Munk (1917-2019)

With the applied mathematician George Carrier, he linked ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream to the much wider field of mathematical fluid dynamics. Munk and postdoc Chris Garrett assumed that these, unlike wind-driven waves on the surface, do not have periods of storm and calm, nor predominant p...

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Published in:Nature (London) 2019-03, Vol.567 (7747), p.176-176
Main Author: Wunsch, Carl
Format: Article
Language:English
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Biography
Computational fluid dynamics
Current carriers
Fluid dynamics
Geophysics
Gulf Stream
Hydrodynamics
Munk, Walter
Nuclear weapons
Obituary
Ocean bottom
Ocean circulation
Ocean currents
Oceanic stratification
Oceanographers
Oceanography
Oceans
Radar
Sound propagation
Storms
Time series
Topography
Underwater acoustics
Wave propagation
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