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Born in Vienna, Austria, shortly before the Austro-Hungarian Empire lost its access to the sea, Walter Munk became a leading geophysicist and physical oceanographer after being sent to school in New York State and later moving west to California. He and Harald Sverdrup developed wave prediction schemes that were used by the Allies in World War II to evaluate whether amphibious landings would be feasible. His post-war research included further major contributions to the understanding of ocean waves, as well as ocean circulation, tides, internal waves, mixing processes and many other phenomena. He showed how variations in the Earth's rotation contained a wealth of valuable geophysical information and was an instigator of the ‘Mohole’ project that failed for political reasons but paved the way for the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Although primarily a theoretician, throughout his career he was an enthusiastic adopter of new technologies and data analysis techniques. He showed how acoustic transmissions could be used to map ocean eddies and currents as well as to monitor temperature changes of whole ocean basins. He was a key adviser to the US Navy and a dedicated member of the science ad

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Author

Garrett, Chris; Wunsch, Carl

Publisher

The Royal Society; Royal Society of London (ISSN 1479-571X)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences