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15 Nov 1888
H. U. Sverdrup |
birth H. U. Sverdrup Born 15 Nov 1888; died 21 Aug 1957 at age 68. Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was a Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer known for his studies of the physics, chemistry, and biology of the oceans. He explained the equatorial countercurrents and helped develop the method of predicting surf and breakers. As scientific director of Roald Amundsen's polar expedition on Maud (1918-1925), Sverdrup worked extensively on meteorology, magnetics, atmospheric electricity, physical oceanography, and tidal dynamics on the Siberian shelf, and even on the anthropology of Chukchi natives. In 1953, Sverdrup quantified the concept of "critical depth", explaining the onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in newly stratified water columns. |
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15 Nov 1888
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup |
birth Harald Ulrik Sverdrup Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (died 1957), meteorologist and oceanographer. |
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