Carl Wunsch

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Name Carl Wunsch Role Professor		Doctoral advisor Henry Stommel Notable students Peter Huybers

Born May 5, 1941Brooklyn, United States of America ( 1941-05-05 ) Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thesis On the scale of the long period tides (1966) Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966), Polytechnic Institute of New York University Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Fields Oceanography, Geophysics, Statistics Books The Ocean Circulation Inverse P, Modern Observational Physical, Discrete Inverse and State, Ocean Acoustic Tomography

Munk Centennial Symposium, August 29, 2017: Introductions and Carl Wunsch

Carl Wunsch was the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, until he retired in 2013. He is known for his early work in internal waves and more recently for research into the effects of ocean circulation on climate.

MIT on Chaos and Climate: Jule Charney and his Influence on Physical Oceanography

Career

Wunsch received his Ph.D. in Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. He began teaching there in 1967, achieving tenure in 1970, and was named Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography in 1976.

Climate change

Wunsch was one of the scientists interviewed in the controversial documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, but he complained that his views were grossly distorted by context.[1] [2]