Abraham H. Oort
Abraham Hans Oort (born 1934, Leiden) is a Dutch-born American climatologist.
Oort is the son of the Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort. He moved to the United States in 1961. Since 1971, Oort was professor at Princeton University, where from 1977 until his retirement in 1996 he worked at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA. Oort is best known for his textbook, Physics of Climate, written in conjunction with José P. Peixoto.[1]
References
- Peixoto, José P.; Oort, Abraham H. (1992). The Physics of Climate (3rd ed.). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-88318-712-8.
External links
- Bibliography at GFDL
- Oort's Monthly and Seasonal Global Circulation Statistics since 1958 from NCAR and LDEO/IRI Climate Data Library
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