Adrian Gill (meteorologist) explained
Adrian Edmund Gill FRS[1] (22 February 1937 – 19 April 1986) was an Australian meteorologist and oceanographer best known for his textbook Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics.[2] Gill was born in Melbourne, Australia, and worked at Cambridge, serving as Senior Research Fellow from 1963 to 1984.[3] His father was Edmund Gill, geologist, palaeontologist and curator at the National Museum of Victoria.
Gill was chair of the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere program. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1986.[4] 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 University has a professorship endowned in his honor.[5]
- The Royal Meteorological Society 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.[6]
Selected publications
- 10.1017/S0022112062001421. Analysis of the stability of axisymmetric jets. 1962. Batchelor. G. K.. Gill. A. E.. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 14. 4. 529. 1962JFM....14..529B. 123452950 .
- 10.1017/S0022112066001368. The boundary-layer regime for convection in a rectangular cavity. 1966. Gill. A. E.. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 26. 3. 515–536. 1966JFM....26..515G. 121330359 .
- 10.1098/rspa.1967.0126. Resonant interactions between planetary waves. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 1967. 299. 1456. 120–144. 1967RSPSA.299..120L. Longuet-Higgins. M. S.. Michael S. Longuet-Higgins. Gill. A. E.. 120179723.
- 10.1017/S0022112069000553. On thermohaline convection with linear gradients. 1969. Baines. P. G.. Peter Baines (academic). Gill. A. E.. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 37. 2. 289–306. 1969JFM....37..289B. 120776161 .
- 10.1017/S0022112069001431. Instabilities of a buoyancy-driven system. 1969. Gill. A. E.. Davey. A.. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 35. 4. 775–798. 1969JFM....35..775G. 122414069 .
- 10.1098/rsta.1971.0080. A discussion on ocean currents and their dynamics - Ocean models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 1971. 270. 1206. 391–413. 133730380.
- 10.1016/0011-7471(73)90049-1. The theory of the seasonal variability in the ocean. 1973. Gill. A.E.. Niller. P.P.. Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. 20. 2. 141–177. 1973DSRA...20..141G.
- 10.1016/0011-7471(73)90048-X. Circulation and bottom water production in the Weddell Sea. 1973. Gill. A.E.. Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. 20. 2. 111–140. 1973DSRA...20..111G.
- 10.1080/03091927409365786. The stability of planetary waves on an infinite beta‐plane. 1974. Gill. A.E.. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. 6. 1. 29–47. 1974GApFD...6...29G.
- 10.1016/0011-7471(74)90038-2. Wind-induced upwelling, coastal currents and sea-level changes. 1974. Gill. A.E.. Clarke. A.J.. Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. 21. 5. 325–345. 1974DSRA...21..325G.
- 10.1175/1520-0485(1974)004<0083:TGOLSW>2.0.CO;2. 1520-0485. 1974. 4. 83. The Generation of Long Shelf Waves by the Wind. Gill. A. E.. Schumann. E. H.. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 1. 1974JPO.....4...83G. free.
- 10.1016/0011-7471(75)90046-7. Spin-up of a stratified ocean, with applications to upwelling. 1975. Anderson. David L.T.. Gill. A.E.. Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. 22. 9. 583–596. 1975DSRA...22..583A.
- 10.1016/0011-7471(76)90835-4. Observations of equatorially trapped waves in Pacific sea level variations. 1976. Wunsch. C.. Carl Wunsch. Gill. A.E.. Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. 23. 5. 371–390. 1976DSRA...23..371W.
- 10.1098/rspa.1979.0103. A simple model for showing effects of geometry on the ocean tides. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 1979. 367. 1731. 549–571. 1979RSPSA.367..549G. Gill. A. E.. 131071309.
- 10.1002/qj.49710644905. Some simple solutions for heat-induced tropical circulation. 1980. Gill. A. E.. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 106. 449. 447–462. 1980QJRMS.106..447G.
- 10.1038/306229a0. The 1982–83 climate anomaly in the equatorial Pacific. 1983. Gill. A. E.. Rasmusson. E. M.. Nature. 306. 5940. 229–234. 1983Natur.306..229G. 4356967. 1983
- 10.1175/1520-0485(1984)014<1129:OTBOIW>2.0.CO;2. 1520-0485. 1984. 14. 1129. On the Behavior of Internal Waves in the Wakes of Storms. Gill. A. E.. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 7. 1984JPO....14.1129G. free.
Notes and References
- Batchelor . G. K. . George Batchelor. Hide . R. . 10.1098/rsbm.1988.0009 . Adrian Edmund Gill. 22 February 1937 – 19 April 1986 . . 34 . 223–258 . 1988 . 770052 . 61760653 . free .
- Book: Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics. 9780122835223. Gill. Adrian E.. 12 December 1982.
- Web site: Gill, Adrian Edmund (1937 - 1986). Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation.
- Web site: Library and Archive Catalogue . . 7 January 2011 .
- Web site: Allan Clarke, The Adrian Edmund Gill Professor of Oceanography . Florida State University . https://web.archive.org/web/20100610004351/http://www.ocean.fsu.edu/Faculty/clarke/clarke.php . 10 June 2010 . dead.
- Web site: The Adrian Gill Award, Awards and Prizes . Royal Meteorological Society . https://web.archive.org/web/20100412000737/http://www.rmets.org/activities/awards/index.php . 12 April 2010 . dead.