TY - BOOK ID - 94140661 TI - Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography : A Prolonged Weekend Discussion with Walter Munk AU - Storch, Hans AU - Hasselmann, Klaus AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2010 SN - 9783642120879 9783642120862 9783642426193 9783642120886 PB - Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg DB - UniCat KW - Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) KW - Geophysics KW - Hydrosphere KW - History KW - wetenschapsgeschiedenis KW - geschiedenis KW - geofysica KW - oceanografie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:94140661 AB - The present volume documents an interview with the eminent oceanographer and geophysicist Walter Munk, who is one of the "grand old men" of oceanography. The book covers many key issues, such as ocean-wave prediction, ocean acoustic thermography. As a highly prominent scientist who has influenced many present day key oceanographers, Munk's career covers 70 years of practice, beginning about 1940 and continuing to the present. ER -