In the late 1980s, plans for an expansion of IGPP were developed by Judith and Walter Munk, and Sharyn and John Orcutt, in consultation with a local architect, Fred Liebhardt. His many areas of interest included ocean swells, tides, waves and wind-driven circulations; as well as collecting large-scale current and temperature measurements using the technique of ocean acoustic tomography. L'Institut d'océanographie Scripps à La Jolla l'embaucha en tant qu'assistant professeur de géophysique.

With the new branch of IGP, an institution of En 1968, Walter Munk devint membre du comité JASON, un panel de scientifiques qui conseille le gouvernement américain.

Rotation through this shape requires internal shearing, and only fluids are capable of such rotation with small frictional losses. At this time the original IGPP building was renamed the Walter and Judith Munk Laboratory for Geophysics. ». Throughout the Cold War and beyond, he served with the Jasons, a group of scientists advising the U.S. military. He applied for a summer job at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His father, Dr. Hans Munk, and his mother, Rega Brunner, were divorced when Munk was a boy. (1939) in physics. Walter Munk, in full Walter Heinrich Munk, (born October 19, 1917, Vienna, Austria—died February 8, 2019, San Diego, California, U.S.), Austrian-born American oceanographer whose pioneering studies of ocean currents and wave propagation laid the foundations for contemporary oceanography. Le 20 juin 1953, Walter Munk épousa Judith Horton. Modern methods of time-series and spectral analysis were brought to bear on tidal analysis, leading to the development of the "response method" of tidal analysis. To trace the path and decay of waves as they propagated northward, he established stations to measure waves from islands and at sea (on R/P FLIP) along a great circle from New Zealand to Alaska. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Walter Heinrich Munk was born in Vienna on 19 October 1917 into a cosmopolitan Austrian family.
Updates? From 1939 to 1945 he joined several of his colleagues from Scripps at the U.S. Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory, where they developed methods related to amphibious warfare.

She was an active participant at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for decades, where she made major contributions to architecture, campus planning, and the renovation and reuse of historical buildings. Here are the instructions of how to enable JavaScript in your browser. “It’s not dark, it’s quite white. Lord Kelvin had also considered this question, and had fashioned a non-quantitative answer being roughly correct. Among the early faculty appointments were Carl Eckart, George Backus, Freeman Gilbert and John Miles. Munk worked on the Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE) from 1965 to 1975; it resulted in significant improvement in the accuracy of tide prediction. Munk served as director of IGPP/LJ from 1963-1982. His father served for a period as chauffeur to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria. Understanding that sound travels more quickly in warm water than it does in cold water, Dr. Munk sent low-frequency sounds through the ocean.