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    Henry Melson Stommel (September 27, 1920 – January 17, 1992) was a major contributor to the field of physical oceanography. Beginning in the 1940s, he...
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    western-intensified current, driven largely by wind stress. In 1958, oceanographer Henry Stommel noted, "very little water from the Gulf of Mexico is actually in the...
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    The mechanics were made clear by the American oceanographer Henry Stommel. In 1948, Stommel published his key paper in Transactions, American Geophysical...
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  • The Henry Stommel Research Award is awarded by the American Meteorological Society to researchers in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement...
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    and various oceanographic data gathering programs such as those of Henry Stommel. In July 1969, British businessman and amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst...
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    1960s, Henry Stommel did much of the research into the AMOC with what later became known as the Stommel Box model, which introduced the idea of Stommel Bifurcation...
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  • Study, before being recruited by Henry Stommel to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1956. Veronis and Stommel both left Woods Hole for MIT in...
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  • Bert (1984). "The 1983 Crafoord Prize Awarded to Edward N. Lorenz and Henry Stommel". Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 36 (2): 97. Bibcode:1984TellA...
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    parameterized. Entrainment rate is a key parameter in cumulus parameterization. Henry Stommel was the first to study entrainment rate in cumulus clouds. Knight CG...
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  • importance of his work on deterministic chaos. In 1983, along with colleague Henry Stommel, he was awarded the Crafoord Prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences...
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