Everything about Harald Sverdrup totally explained
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (
November 15,
1888 –
August 21,
1957) was a
Norwegian oceanographer and
meteorologist who made a number of important theoretical discoveries in these fields. Having first worked in
Bergen and
Leipzig he was involved in the
North Polar expedition of
Roald Amundsen between
1917 and
1925, before taking the chair in meteorology at Bergen, where his primary interest slowly became oceanography.
He was made director of California's
Scripps Institution of Oceanography in
1936, initially for 3 years but the intervention of
World War II meant he held the post until
1948. During 33 expeditions with the research vessel
E. W. Scripps in the years 1938-1941 he produced a detailed oceanographic dataset off the coast of California. He also developed the theory of ocean circulation known as
Sverdrup balance, the first truly accurate description of the phenomenon. After leaving SIO, he returned home to become director of the
Norwegian Polar Institute and continued to contribute to oceanography, ocean biology and polar research.
His many publications include the
magnum opus The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology by Harald Sverdrup,
Martin W. Johnson and Richard H. Fleming (1942, new edition 1970).
He was a member of the
American and
Norwegian Academies of Science and the
Swedish Order of the North Star. The
sverdrup, a unit of volume flux, bears his name.
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