Open AccessMark A. Cane Receives 2013 Maurice Ewing Medal: Citation
Author(s) -
Philander S. George
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo010015
Subject(s) - medal , cane , citation , field (mathematics) , geology , meteorology , climatology , oceanography , history , geography , computer science , archaeology , mathematics , biology , library science , biochemistry , sugar , pure mathematics
Mark Cane started his career when theories for the ocean circulation were “dreamlike” (in the words of Henry Stommel). He made major contributions to a complete change in those perceptions by producing theoretical results that explain and by developing computer models that simulate realistically the variability of the complex system of tropical currents, undercurrents, and countercurrents. His results served as the basis for the design of several international field programs in the three tropical oceans whose different dimensions and different surface winds provide stringent tests for the results concerning the interactions between the waves and currents that determine how the oceans adjust to changing winds.