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...

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

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

A Geophysical Discussion, by Walter Munk and Gordon J. MacDonald. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1960 Walter Munk, Naomi Oreskes, and Richard Muller...

and named them after his scientific mentor, Walter Munk. Part of the Elasmobranch group Squalea, Munk's devil ray is a large fish with a horizontally...

Johann; Lejenäs, Harald (2011). "The 2010 Crafoord Prize awarded to Walter Munk". Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 63 (2): 189. doi:10...

Philip J. Currie 2012 - Alfred S. McLaren 2013 – James Cameron 2014 – Walter Munk 2015 – Neil deGrasse Tyson 2016 – Frederick Roots 2017 - André Borschberg...

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