Carl wish
Carl Isaac Wunsch (born May 5, 1941 in Brooklyn , New York) is an American oceanographer and professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge .
Research work
Wunsch is known for his early work on internal waves (waves not on the surface but inside liquids) and, more recently, for his research into the effects of ocean currents on climate. In current discussions, such effects are related, among other things, to the question of whether the North Atlantic Current fed by the Gulf Stream can tear off as a result of climate change . According to the request, at least a halt in the Gulf Stream is extremely unlikely in the next ten million years, since either the rotation of the earth or the winds or both would have to be halted.
Position on climate change
Wunsch assumes that the human influence on the climate cannot be precisely determined down to the last detail. Nevertheless, he sees more than sufficient reason to act. Such statements were interpreted in the film The Great Global Warming Swindle to mean that Wunsch doubted any connection between humans and the climate, which he strictly rejected.
career
Wunsch received his Ph. D. in geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He taught there from 1967, and from 1970 in a permanent position. From 1976 he became a professor for physical oceanography.
Honors (selection)
- James B. Macelwane Medal (1971)
- Member, National Academy of Sciences , 1978
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1979
- Fulbright Scholar, 1981-1982
- Maurice Ewing Medal, American Geophysical Union and US Navy, 1990
- Henry Stommel Research Prize, American Meteorological Society , 2000
- Foreign Member, Royal Society of London, 2002
- Member, American Philosophical Society , 2003
- Bowie Medal, American Geophysical Union , 2006
Recent publications
- Carl Wunsch: Discrete Inverse and State Estimation Problems , 2006. ISBN 0521854245
- Carl Wunsch: The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem , 1996. ISBN 0521480906
- Walter Munk, Peter Worcester, Carl Wunsch: Ocean Acoustic Tomography , Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0521470951
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Wunsch, Gulf Stream safe if wind blows and earth turns , Nature 428, p.601, (2004), doi : 10.1038 / 428601c .
- ↑ Carl Wunsch ( Memento of November 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the Royal Society website , as of November 12, 2007, in the Internet Archive at archive.org (English)
- ↑ http://ocean.mit.edu/~cwunsch/CHANNEL4.html , http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s1977366.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wish, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wish, Carl Isaac (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American oceanographer, professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York |