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HENRY STOMMEL
HENRY STOMMEL
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neecis of national security, and of global, organized, highly expensive programs requiring massive government funcling. In a sociological sense he was a transitional figure, being probably the last of the creative physical oceanographers with no acivancec!
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crusty oIc! fishermen using primitive instruments macle by clever local machinists en c!
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a bit of scientific unclerstancling, inclucling a taste for simple chemistry en c! Popular Mechanics.
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by remaining at Yale for two years teaching analytic geometry and celestial navigation in the Navy's V-12 program. Six months spent at the Yale Divinity School shower!
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at the Woocis Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) until 1959, when he left to become a professor at Harvarc!
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Her own work, apart from the family, has been as a writer, church organist, en c! hospital chaplain.
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This body of work begins with the 1948 paper already mentioned, in which he shower! that the Gulf Stream was a phenomenon that conic!
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theory of the thermocline, the gross thermal structure of the ocean (1959) , to a theoretical view of the global abyssal circulation (1960~.
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of layers. This simple step, coupled with a highly developed physical intuition, suciclenly macle the stucly of the oceanic thermohaline structure blossom once again, this paper was followed by a torrent of papers by Stommel and colIaborators, as well as many others.
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confirmation of his abyssal circulation theory, the multiship, multinational studies of Mediterranean convection,3 the first-ever, true transpacific hycirographic sections, en c! the wonclerfully romantic operations in the Seychelles using the marginal vessel La Curieuse.
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One result, albeit peripheral to his own immediate scientific interests, was the gIobal-scale Geochemical Sections Program (GEOSECS)
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clouble-cliffusive convection is often tracer! to a one-page paper with the unusual title "An oceanographical curiosity: The perpetual salt fountain." Stommel himself attributer!
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to use these instruments to study mixing of Pacific en c! Indian Ocean water in the Bancia Sea in the Indonesian archipelago.
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These included tides, pedagogical problems (how to explain the Coriolis force) , numerical methods, en c!
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the British Admiralty for allegedly falsifying temperature measurements macle on the Challenger expedition. Stommel wrote an entire book on isTancis that never actually existecI.4 He lover!
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and the answering of endless questions. Henry's sister, Anne Melson Stommel of Red Bank, New Tersey, who corrected details and who kindly provided an extensive written background on the Melson family history, a copy of which will also be placed in the WHOI archives.
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Wunsch (MIT Press, 1981~. The manuscript was read for accuracy by Elizabeth Stommel, Joseph Pedlosky, Henry Charnock, Anne Stommel, and Nelson Hogg.
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Some examples of stationary planetary flow patterns in bounded basins. Tellus 10:179-87.
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The beta spiral and the determination of the absolute velocity field from hydrographic station data.
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Hogg. The heron, an elementary interaction between discrete baroclinic geostrophic vortices, and its implications concerning eddy heat-flow.
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