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    Henry Melson Stommel (September 27, 1920 – January 17, 1992) was a major contributor to the field of physical oceanography. Beginning in the 1940s, he...
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  • The Henry Stommel Research Award is awarded by the American Meteorological Society to researchers in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement...
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    western-intensified current, driven largely by wind stress. In 1958, oceanographer Henry Stommel noted, "very little water from the Gulf of Mexico is actually in the...
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    and various oceanographic data gathering programs such as those of Henry Stommel. In July 1969, British businessman and amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst...
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    The mechanics were made clear by the American oceanographer Henry Stommel. In 1948, Stommel published his key paper in Transactions, American Geophysical...
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  • Pre-dating the work of Stern, a paper by the American oceanographer Henry Stommel discussed the creation of a large-scale salt finger in which a column...
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    Henry Stommel had pioneered much of the research into AMOC with what later became known as the Stommel Box model. It introduced the idea of a Stommel...
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  • Study, before being recruited by Henry Stommel to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1956. Veronis and Stommel both left Woods Hole for MIT in...
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  • and adding the Ekman transport, yields the Sverdrup relation. In 1948 Henry Stommel proposed a circulation for the entire ocean depth by starting with the...
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    parameterized. Entrainment rate is a key parameter in cumulus parameterization. Henry Stommel was the first to study entrainment rate in cumulus clouds. Knight CG...
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  • importance of his work on deterministic chaos. In 1983, along with colleague Henry Stommel, he was awarded the Crafoord Prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences...
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  • Maurice Ewing Medal, American Geophysical Union and U.S. Navy, 1990 Henry Stommel Research Award, American Meteorological Society, 2000 Foreign Member...
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    Jack Steinberger 1989—Arnold Beckman, Eugene Parker, Robert P. Sharp, Henry Stommel 1990—Allan MacLeod Cormack, Edwin McMillan, Robert Pound, Roger Revelle...
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    a heat exchanger, was introduced to the oceanographic community by Henry Stommel in a 1989 article in Oceanography, when he proposed a glider concept...
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  • Henry Stommel & Dennis W. Moore (1989). An Introduction to the Coriolis Force. Columbia University Press. p. 26. ISBN 0-231-06636-8. coriolis Stommel...
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    the main drivers of the circulation, which was established in 1960 by Henry Stommel and Arnold B. Arons. They have chemical, temperature and isotopic ratio...
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    mechanism in which to predict this return flow. Contributions by both Henry Stommel and Walter Munk resolved this issue by showing that the return flow...
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    neutral buoyancy were developed independently and simultaneously by Henry Stommel in 1955 and John C. Swallow in 1955. The design of the Swallow float...
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  • elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He received the Henry Stommel Research Award of the American Meteorological Society in 2015. O'Neill...
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  • understanding of the large-scale motions of the atmosphere and the sea” Henry Stommel American 1984 Biosciences Daniel H. Janzen American “for his imaginative...
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    slow steady flows towards the equator in the interior. As discussed by Henry Stommel, these flows are balanced in the region of the western boundary, where...
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  • contributions to the description of large-scale ocean circulation were made by Henry Stommel who formulated the first correct theory for the Gulf Stream and theories...
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    1992. Exploring Polar Frontiers, p. 435, William James Mills, 2003. Stommel, Henry M. (1984). Lost islands : the story of islands that have vanished from...
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  • Westcott Dudley Howard Williams George Evelyn Hutchinson Jean Leray Henry Stommel Charles Weissmann Frank Westheimer "Fellows of the Royal Society", Royal...
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  • Australian actress. Luigi Durand de la Penne, 77, Italian Navy admiral. Henry Stommel, 71, American oceanographer. Charlie Ventura, 75, American saxophonist...
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    (Scottish, 1828–1887) – observations of solar flares and geomagnetic storms Henry Stommel (American, 1920–1992) – ocean circulation; awarded William Bowie Medal...
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    Scripps Institution of Oceanography Awards Alexander Agassiz Medal (1992) Henry Stommel Research Award (1996) Maurice Ewing Medal (2000) Albatross Award of...
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  • "mesoscale revolution". The existence of mesoscale eddies was predicted by Henry Stommel in the 1960s, but there was no way to observe them with traditional...
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  • Mediterranean outflow and geostrophy. He was supervised initially by Henry Stommel and then principally by Nick Fofonoff, and his thesis title was "Momentum...
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    focusing on double diffusion. This was inspired by discussions with Henry Stommel who was interested in how differing rates of molecular diffusivity could...
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