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Biography of Vagn Walfrid Ekman
242 words, approx. 1 pages
Ekman was a member of a consortium of Scandinavian scientists who transformed the study of oceanography and meteorology at the turn of the twentieth century. Ekman's father, Fredrik Laurentz Ekman, was an oceanographer, but Vagn Ekman's greatest...


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Vagn Walfrid Ekman Information
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Vagn Walfrid Ekman (May 3, 1874 – March 9, 1954) was a Swedish oceanographer. Born in Stockholm to Fredrik Laurentz Ekman, himself an oceanographer, he became committed to oceanography while studying physics at the University of Uppsala and, in...


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The Independent - London
Vagn Holmboe: Obituary
09/04/1996: 1,352 words, approx. 5 pages
"His genius truly generates - in his music things are born and they grow. In it, continuous metamorphosis is not merely ingenuity; it is life, it is tingling proliferation." Thus Robert Simpson on the music of the Danish composer Vagn Holmboe. Holmboe was...
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Journal of Physical Oceanography
Ekman Layer Rectification
08/01/2006: 7,794 words, approx. 26 pages
ABSTRACT The phenomenon of oceanic Ekman layer rectification refers to how the time-mean, Ekman layer velocity profile with depth differs as a consequence of variability in the surface wind in addition to the time-mean wind. This study investigates rectification using the K-Profile Parameterization...
 


 

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