Carl Wunsch
Carl Wunsch ( born May 5, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is a professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.
Research
Request (not waves on the surface, but inside of fluids ) is known for his early work on internal waves and more recently for his research into the effects of ocean currents on climate. Such effects are, inter alia, in relation to the question whether a tearing of the fed out of the Gulf Stream, North Atlantic Current is partly possible due to climate change in current discussions. According to request a continuation of the Gulf Stream in the next ten million years is at least extremely unlikely, since either with the rotation of the earth or the winds, or both would have to be stopped.
Position on climate change
Request assumes that the human influence on the climate, not possible to determine exactly to the last. Nevertheless, he sees more than sufficient reason to act. Such statements were interpreted in the film The Great Global Warming Swindle then, desire doubt any connection between humans and the climate, which he rejected strict.
Career
Request received his Ph.D. in geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. Starting from 1967 he taught there from 1970 in a permanent position. From 1976, he was appointed professor of physical oceanography.
Selected honors
- James B. Macelwane Medal ( 1971)
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1978
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1979
- Fulbright Scholar, 1981-1982
- Maurice Ewing Medal, American Geophysical Union and U.S. Navy, 1990
- Henry Stommel Research Prize, American Meteorological Society, 2000
- Foreign Member, Royal Society of London, 2002
- Bowie Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2006
Recent publications
- Carl request: Discrete Inverse and State Estimation problem, 2006 ISBN 0521854245.
- Carl request: The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem, 1996 ISBN 0521480906.
- Walter Munk, Peter Worcester, Carl request: Ocean Acoustic Tomography, Cambridge University Press, 1995 ISBN 0521470951.