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Born April 7, 1938 ( 1938-04-07 ) Institutions Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thesis The stability of currents in the atmosphere and the ocean (1963) Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1963) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Fields Oceanography, Fluid dynamics Books Ocean Circulation Theory, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Waves in the Ocean and Atmo | ||
Doctoral advisor Jule Gregory Charney | ||
Joseph Pedlosky (born April 7, 1938) is an American physical oceanographer. He is a scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanography Institute. Pedlosky was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1985. He is the author of the textbooks Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Ocean Circulation Theory, and Waves in the Ocean and Atmosphere: Introduction to Wave Dynamics.
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Biography
He completed his Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of Jule Charney at MIT.
Research
Pedlosky has made fundamental contributions in the study of baroclinic instability and the thermal structure of the ocean, particularly the oceanic thermocline.
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