Open AccessTO THE 80th ANNIVERSARY OF BYSHEV – A MEMBER OF THE POLYGON–70 EXPEDITION
Author(s) -
A. V. Sokov
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
okeanologičeskie issledovaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9634
pISSN - 1564-2291
DOI - 10.29006/1564-2291.jor-2020.48(3).14
Subject(s) - atmosphere (unit) , polygon (computer graphics) , scale (ratio) , oceanography , ocean current , geography , geology , climatology , meteorology , cartography , computer science , telecommunications , frame (networking)
The article is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Dr. Vladimir I. Byshev – mathematician, oceanologist, Head of the Laboratory of large-scale variability of hydrophysical fields of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences. Vladimir Byshev is a major scientist in the study of the temporal and spatial variability of oceanological and meteorological characteristics in a wide range of scales, features of the interaction of the ocean and atmosphere, large-scale disturbances of the climate system, an active direct participant in two dozen scientific expeditions, including such large ocean projects as Polygon–70, POLYMODE, Megapolygon, Atlantex–90, as well as a number of expeditions to the regions of the western boundary currents of the Atlantic Ocean and the equatorial region of the Indian Ocean, in which new, previously unknown elements of the circulation of the World Ocean were discovered. He is an expert in the field of climate, a member of the Editorial boards of several scientific journals and the author of over 200 scientific publications. He is a co-author of the Atlas POLYMODE (1986), the largest international oceans research project, and the author of the well-known monograph “Synoptic and large-scale variability of the ocean and atmosphere”.