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Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019) was an American physical oceanographer. He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical methods to the analysis of oceanographic data.
28 feb 2019 · Walter Munk revolutionized our understanding of the ocean and of Earth’s rotation. He synthesized observations, theory and empirical rules to solve problems both fundamental...
- Carl Wunsch
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Walter Munk (born October 19, 1917, Vienna, Austria—died February 8, 2019, San Diego, California, U.S.) was an Austrian-born American oceanographer whose pioneering studies of ocean currents and wave propagation laid the foundations for contemporary oceanography.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
9 feb 2019 · Walter H. Munk, one of the foremost oceanographers of the 20th century, who sent pulses of sound through the vast oceans — probably startling a few whales — to measure changes in water...
Walter’s pioneering contributions to physical oceanography and geophysics advanced the science and understanding of ocean waves, wind-driven ocean gyres, deep-sea tides, internal waves, the rotation of the earth, ocean acoustics, and geophysical data analysis. Walter Munk was born on October 19, 1917 in Vienna, Austria.
12 feb 2019 · World-renowned oceanographer Walter Munk died last Friday (February 8). He was 101. “We thought he would live forever,” Munk’s wife, Mary, tells the San Diego Union-Tribune. He succumbed to pneumonia at his seaside home near the University of California (UCSD), San Diego.
24 ago 2015 · From forecasting ocean waves in World War II to using underwater sound to measure climate change, Walter Munk has spent nearly eight decades taking on timely problems.
