Adrian Gill
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Adrian Edmund Gill FRS (22 February 1937 - 19 April 1986) was an Australian meteorologist and oceanographer best known for his textbook Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8kFPh_SvnAIC&pg=PR15&lpg=PR15&dq=%22adrian+gill%22+dynamics&source=bl&ots=B65N3x4Woj&sig=gXssg490z80uLfzLMfR8lifjYzE&hl=en&ei=0tXlS6miAciF-QbakrTpAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. Gill was born in Melbourne
Australia and worked at Cambridge
, serving as Senior Research Fellow from 1963 to 1984 http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002365b.htm.
He was chair of the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere programme. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1986. His candidacy citation read: "Dr A.E. Gill is internationally recognised for his work in geophysical fluid dynamics and leads a small but highly productive team working on problems in dynamical oceanography and meteorology. He has made outstanding theoretical contributions to a wide range of topics, including the stability of pipe flow, thermal convection, circulation of the Southern Ocean, seasonal variability of the ocean, waves in rotating fluids, wind-induced upwelling, coastal currents and sea-level changes and coastally-trapped waves in the atmosphere, and he is particularly effective in the way he is able to interpret observations and guide the activities of observational workers".
Melbourne
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Australia and worked at Cambridge
Cambridge
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, serving as Senior Research Fellow from 1963 to 1984 http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002365b.htm.
He was chair of the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere programme. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1986. His candidacy citation read: "Dr A.E. Gill is internationally recognised for his work in geophysical fluid dynamics and leads a small but highly productive team working on problems in dynamical oceanography and meteorology. He has made outstanding theoretical contributions to a wide range of topics, including the stability of pipe flow, thermal convection, circulation of the Southern Ocean, seasonal variability of the ocean, waves in rotating fluids, wind-induced upwelling, coastal currents and sea-level changes and coastally-trapped waves in the atmosphere, and he is particularly effective in the way he is able to interpret observations and guide the activities of observational workers".
Honours
- Individual Merit Senior Principal Scientific Officer of the Meteorological Office.
- Florida State UniversityFlorida State UniversityThe Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
has a professorship endowned in his honour http://ocean.fsu.edu/Faculty/clarke/clarke.php. - The Royal Meteorological SocietyRoyal Meteorological SocietyThe Royal Meteorological Society traces its origins back to 3 April 1850 when the British Meteorological Society was formed as a society the objects of which should be the advancement and extension of meteorological science by determining the laws of climate and of meteorological phenomena in general...
annually awards an "Adrian Gill Award" to a member of the Society who has made a significant contribution in [fields] that interface between atmospheric science and... oceanography, hydrology, geochemistry and numerical methodologies. http://www.rmets.org/activities/awards/index.php