Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019) was an American physical oceanographer. He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical...

The Oceanography Society gives out three awards—the Jerlov Award, the Walter Munk Medal, and the Oceanography Society Fellows Program. The Jerlov Award...

1948. With Harald Sverdrup as the SIO director, recent graduate student Walter Munk was recalled from the army and together they were tasked with aiding...

Munk's devil ray was first described in 1987 by the Italian ecologist Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara and named for his scientific mentor, Walter Munk...

for Earth Sciences at the National Science Foundation in March 1957, Walter Munk, a professor of geophysics and oceanography at the Scripps Institution...

corresponding wave conditions can be computed through wave hindcasts. Munk, Walter H. (1950), "Origin and generation of waves", Proceedings 1st International...

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swell. The original definition resulted from work by the oceanographer Walter Munk during World War II. The significant wave height was intended to mathematically...

oceanography by providing data previously impossible to obtain. Oceanographer Walter Munk described TOPEX/Poseidon as "the most successful ocean experiment of...

football player and businessman (b. 1926) Bert McKasy, politician (b. 1941) Walter Munk, Austrian-born oceanographer (b. 1917) Wolfgang Rindler, Austrian-born...