S. George Philander
Samuel George Harker Philander (born 1942) is a climate scientist, known for his work on El Niño. He is the Knox Taylor Professor emeritus of Geosciences at Princeton University.
S. George Philander | |
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 George Philander in October 2020. | |
| Born | 1942 Caledon, South Africa |
| Nationality | South African |
| Alma mater | University of Cape Town Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geophysics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Thesis | The Equatorial Dynamics of an Homogeneous Ocean (1970) |
Among his published works written for a broad audience are Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard and Is the Temperature Rising?: The Uncertain Science of Global Warming.
Selected awards
Philander is a Member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences,[1] and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2] He received the 2017 Vetlesen Prize, with Mark Cane. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union,[3] and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.[4]
Books
- El Niño, La Niña and the Southern Oscillation. 289 pp., Academic Press, 1990.
- Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warming. 254 pp., Princeton University Press, 1998.
- Our Affair with El Niño. How we Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard. 275 pp., Princeton University Press, 2004.
Selected academic papers
- Gu D. and S. G. H. Philander, Interdecadal Climate Fluctuations that depend on Exchanges between the Tropics and Extratropics, Science, 275, 805–807, 1997.
- Philander, S. G. H., Instabilities of Zonal Equatorial Currents, 2, J. Geophys.Res., 83(C7), 3679–3682, 1978.
- Philander, S. G. H., Instabilities of Zonal Equatorial Currents, J. Geophys. Res., 81(21), 3721–3725, 1976.
- Philander, S. G. H., The Equatorial Undercurrent: Measurements and Theories, Rev. Geophys. and Space Physics, 11(3), 513–570, 1973.
- Philander, S. G. H., The Equatorial Dynamics of a Deep Homogeneous Ocean, Geophys. Fluid Dynamics Journal, 3, 105–123, 1972
- Philander, S. G. H., The Equatorial Dynamics of a Shallow Homogeneous Ocean, Geophys. Fluid Dynamics Journal, 2, 219–245, 1971.
References
- "S. George H. Philander". www.nasonline.org.
- "S. George H. Philander". American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
- "Philander |". honors.agu.org.
- "List of Fellows". American Meteorological Society.
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