John M. Wallace

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John Michael Wallace (born October 28, 1940 in New York City ) is an American geophysicist and meteorologist at the University of Washington . He is an expert on various periodic and non-periodic weather and climate phenomena, including quasi-biennial oscillations , El Niño-Southern Oscillation , tropical waves and arctic oscillation .

Wallace earned a bachelor's degree in marine engineering from the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture in 1962 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. in meteorology . In the same year he received a first professorship (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington , and in 1970 he became an Associate Professor . In 1975 Wallace was given a full professorship, from 1983 to 1988 he was head of the department, from 1982 to 1997 and from 2003 to 2006 director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean , a joint institution of the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . Wallace retired in 2012, but is still scientifically active.

In 1977, John M. Wallace and Peter V. Hobbs published the standard textbook Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey , the second edition of which appeared in 2006. Wallace is the author of numerous scientific publications and (as of September 2018) has an h-index of 85.

In 1972 Wallace received the James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), in 1993 the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) "for innovative and sustainable contributions to the understanding of large-scale atmospheric circulation" and in 1999 the Roger Revelle Medal of the AGU. In 1997 he was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2000 he became a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ John M. Wallace - Google Scholar Citations. In: scholar.google.de. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ John Michael Wallace. In: honors.agu.org. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ The Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal. In: ametsoc.org. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  4. ^ John Michael Wallace (2). In: honors.agu.org. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ John Wallace. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Уоллес Jон. In: ras.ru. Russian Academy of Sciences , accessed September 2, 2018 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Wallace, John M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallace, John; Wallace, John Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geophysicist and meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City