Right Place, Right Time: An Informal Memoir.
Ann Rev Mar Sci
; 13: 1-21, 2021 01.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32503373
ABSTRACT
My career spanned the revolution in understanding of the large-scale fluid ocean, as modern electronics produced vast new capabilities. I started in the days of almost purely mechanical instruments operated by seagoing scientists, ones not so different from those used more than a century earlier. Elegant theories existed of hypothetical steady-state oceans. Today, we understand that the ocean is a highly turbulent fluid, interacting over global scales, and it is now studied by large teams using spacecraft and diverse sets of self-contained in situ instrumentation. Mine was an accidental career I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Oceans and Seas
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Oceanography
Country/Region as subject:
America do norte
Language:
En
Journal:
Ann Rev Mar Sci
Journal subject:
BIOLOGIA
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article