Harald Ulrik Sverdrup ( Norwegian Harald Ulrik Sverdrup ; November 15, 1888 - August 21, 1957 ) - Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist .
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| Date of Birth | November 15, 1888 |
| Place of Birth | Sogndal , Norway |
| Date of death | August 21, 1957 (68 years old) |
| Place of death | Oslo , Norway |
| A country |  Norway |
| Scientific field | oceanography and meteorology |
| Place of work | in Leipzig , University of Bergen , , Norwegian Polar Institute |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo |
| supervisor | Wilhelm Freeman Koren Bjerknes |
| Known as | oceanographer, polar explorer |
| Awards and prizes | (1930) Medal of Alexander Agassiz (1938) (1951) |
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Biography
Born in Sogndal . After graduating from the University of Oslo in 1914 (defending a dissertation on North Atlantic trade winds ) he worked at the Geophysical Institute in Leipzig . Then he worked as a meteorologist in Bergen . From 1918 to 1925 he led scientific research on the expedition on the schooner Mod , during which it was established that Cape Chelyuskin is the northernmost point of Eurasia . In 1926 he took the place of professor of geophysics at the University of Bergen. In 1931, together with Hubert Wilkins, he took part in the on the Nautilus submarine. From 1936 to 1948 he was at the head of the . In 1938 he was awarded the Alexander Agassiz medal . From 1948, at the end of his life, he headed the Norwegian Polar Institute .
In honor of Harald Sverdrup, the unit for measuring the flow of water in the ocean current is 1 Sv = 10 6 m³ / s
awarded the for its contribution to the development of the theory of the interaction of the ocean and the atmosphere. [one]
Works
- Oceanography for meteorologists , L., 1945
- The oceans; their physics, chemistry and general biology , 7 ed., Englewood Cliffs, NY, 1942 (shared with MW Johnson, R. N. Fleming )
- Sailing on the ship “Mod” in the waters of the Laptev and East Siberian Seas, L., 1930
- Into the ice on a submarine, M., 1958
Notes
- ↑ AMS Award Descriptions Has Moved (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment July 14, 2009. Archived March 7, 2017.
Literature
- Sverdrup Harald Ulrik // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
Links
- Deborah Day Harald Ulrik Sverdrup Biography
- Walter Munk and Deborah Day Harald U. Sverdrup and the War Years // Oceanography, vol 15, N 4, pp. 7-29 (2002) (English)