Joseph Pedlosky
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| Born | April 7, 1938 |
| Fields | Oceanography, fluid dynamics |
| 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) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jule Charney |
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Website http://www.whoi.edu/profile.do?id=jpedlosky |
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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.
He completed his Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of Jule Charney at MIT.
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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