Andrew Ingersoll

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Andrew Perry Ingersoll (born January 2, 1940 in Chicago ) is an American meteorologist and planetologist. He is a professor at Caltech .

Ingersoll grew up in Brooklyn and studied at Amherst College with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and Harvard University , where he received his master's degree in 1961 and received his PhD in atmospheric physics in 1966. Then he was from 1966 Assistant Professor, from 1971 Associate Professor and from 1976 Professor at Caltech, where he was Earle C. Anthony Professor of Planetary Science in 2003.

Initially he dealt with stability issues in hydrodynamics ( Taylor-Couette flow , Ekman transport ) and then mainly with the climate and weather phenomena or hydrodynamics of the atmosphere on other planets. He was significantly involved in many important planetary missions of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory / NASA (Pioneer Venus, Pioneer 10/11, Nimbus 7, Mars Global Voyager, Voyager, Galileo, Cassini). He carried out studies on the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus, which led to the loss of its surface water (he coined the term in 1969), the supersonic winds from the day to the night side on the Jupiter moon Io and the existence of liquid water Mars and he investigated the dynamics of the atmosphere on Jupiter and Saturn (including the Red Spot).

On earth he dealt with the Madden-Julian oscillation and Dansgaard-Oeschger events , among other things .

In 2007 he received the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize, in 1981 the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for participation in Voyager, and in 1997 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union . 1989/90 he was chairman of the planetology department of the American Astronomical Society.

Fonts

  • The Atmosphere, Scientific American, September 1983
  • Jupiter's Great Red Spot: A free atmospheric vortex? Science, Vol. 182, 1973, pp. 1346-1348
  • The atmosphere of Jupiter. Space Sci. Rev., Vol. 18, 1976, pp. 603-639
  • The meteorology of Jupiter, Scientific American, March 1976
  • Jupiter and Saturn, Scientific American, December 1981
  • Uranus, Scientific American, January 1987
  • Models of Jovian vortices, Natures, Volume 331, 1988, pp. 654-655
  • Planetary Atmospheres, Macmillan Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences, 1996, pp. 31-36
  • with AR Vasada and the Galileo Imaging Team: Dynamics of Jupiter's Atmosphere, Highlights in Astronomy, Volume 118, 1998, pp. 1042-1049
  • Atmospheric Dynamics of the Outer Planets, in: RP Pearce (Ed.), Meteorology of the Millenium, Academic Press 2002, pp. 306-315

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Ingersoll, The Runaway Greenhouse: A History of Water on Venus, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 26, 1969, pp. 1191–1198
  3. ↑ Ingersoll, Summers, Schlipf, Supersonic Meteorology of Io: Sublimation-Driven Flow of , Icarus, Volume 64, 1985, pp. 375-390
  4. ^ Ingersoll, Mars: Occurrence of Liquid Water, Science, Volume 168, 1970, pp. 972-973
personal data
SURNAME Ingersoll, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ingersoll, Andrew Perry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago