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The Coriolis force and drifting icebergs (Coriolis Part 6)
Author(s) -
Persson Anders
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/j.1477-8696.2001.tb06527.x
Subject(s) - citation , reading (process) , physics , iceberg , astrophysics , library science , computer science , philosophy , meteorology , linguistics , sea ice
When Norway was relieved of its unhappy union with Sweden in 1905, it could for the first time appoint its own ambassadors. The man chosen for the United Kingdom was a man of extraordinary intellectual power and moral stature. Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), nowadays mostly remembered as an explorer, statesman and humanitarian, was also an ardent scientist in biology, zoology and oceanography. In his youth he had already taken part in voyages into the Arctic regions and Greenland. It was during one of these expeditions that he made a discovery that would have a great impact on oceanography and meteorology.