Joseph Pedlosky
Joseph Pedlosky | |
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| Born | April 7, 1938 |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Oceanography, fluid dynamics |
| Institutions | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago |
| Thesis | The stability of currents in the atmosphere and the ocean (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jule Charney |
| Website | http://www.whoi.edu/profile.do?id=jpedlosky |
Joseph Pedlosky (born April 7, 1938) is an American physical oceanographer. He is a scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 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.