Joseph Pedlosky

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Joseph Pedlosky (born April 7, 1938 in Paterson (New Jersey) ) is an American meteorologist and oceanographer who deals with geophysical hydrodynamics .

Pedlosky studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a bachelor's and master's degree in 1960 and his doctorate in 1963 with Jule Charney ( The stability of currents in the atmosphere and the ocean ). Before that he was a Fulbright Fellow at the International Institute of Meteorology in Stockholm in 1960/61. In 1963 he became an assistant professor and in 1967 an associate professor in the faculty of mathematics at MIT. From 1968 to 1972 he was an associate professor of meteorology and from 1972 to 1979 he was a professor of geophysical hydrodynamics at the University of Chicago . In 1979 he became a Senior Scientist and Doherty Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, at which he retired in 2007. Then he was Senior Scientist Emeritus there.

He was particularly concerned with the non-linear mechanics of geophysically important fluids and the question of their stability ( baroclinic instability , thermocline in the ocean), non-linear dynamics of waves of finite amplitude, circulation in the ocean (especially ocean eddies in mid-latitudes, equatorial circulation in the oceans, deep-sea Circulation).

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1985), the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996) and the Academia Europaea . In 1967/68 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and 1977/78 Guggenheim Fellow (in Woods Hole). In 1984/85 and 1994/95 he was visiting scholar at the Studio delle Grandi Masse in Venice. In 1970 he received the Meisinger Award and in 2009 the Bernard Haurwitz Award of the American Meteorological Society , of which he is a fellow, and in 2011 the Maurice Ewing Medal of the American Geophysical Union , of which he is also a fellow. In 2005 he received the Sverdrup Gold Medal for developments in geophysical hydrodynamics, including the theory of baroclinical instability and ocean circulation driven by wind and buoyancy (laudatory speech).

Fonts (selection)

  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Springer 1979, 2nd edition 1987
  • Ocean Circulation Theory, Springer 1998
  • Waves in the Ocean and Atmosphere: Introduction to Wave Dynamics, Springer 2003

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004 (corrected using the data on his homepage).
personal data
SURNAME Pedlosky, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American oceanographer and meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Paterson, New Jersey