Abstract:BiographyPhysical oceanographers have been principal actors in Scandinavian research centres since the end of the 19th century, and in other northern European countries and the United States since the 1920s. The study of the physical marine environment developed even further in these countries during the 1960s and 1970s with the advent of continuous recording instruments, the start of numerical models and the appearance of satellite remote sensing. During these years, however, physical oceanography remained la… Show more
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