Celebrating the physics in geophysics

Journal of Physics: Celebrating 50 years of serving physics.

Simulations in Geophysics and Space Physics: Minisymposium Abstract

High Performance Computing (HPC) enables increasingly complex computer models of physical processes to be built. Parallel computing, adaptive grids, and other computing tools are used to solve ever larger problems, but they also increase the complexity of the software significantly and can have an impact on the reliability of the software and the results of the computations. These issues make t...

Ring-laser tests of fundamental physics and geophysics

HeNe ring-laser gyros are standard sensors in inertial guidance; mirror reflectances now reach 99.9999%. Present research instruments have an area of ∼ 1 m2, a passive quality factor of > 1011, and a resolution of the frequency difference of counter-rotating optical beams approaching microhertz. In the Sagnac effect, this difference is proportional to the angular velocity. Present resolution is...

Vol. 17, No.7 Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics

Introduct ion papers wi~ appear in ~ Sea Research in 1979. Duing (1974) and Philander Ti"974) describe the experimental rationale and design f:or the GATE oceanographic program. Duing, et al. (1975) found large scale meandering of the westward flowing south equatorial current and the east'Ward flowing equatorial undercurrent. They deduced the presence of: a long wave of wavelength 2600 km propa...

Celebrating the “Ostād”

This is a short tribute to Dr. Seyed Ali Fakhr Tabatabaei celebrating his excellent and fruitfull career in neurosurgical practice and mentorship.