Joseph Pedlosky is an American physical oceanographer. He is currently a scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanography Institute.
Pedlosky was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences

United States National Academy of Sciences

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 in 1985. He is the author of the textbook Geophysical Fluid Dynamics .

Research

Pedlosky has made fundamental contributions in the study of baroclinic instability and the thermal structure of the ocean.

Awards and honors

• 1985: Elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences
  United States National Academy of Sciences
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• 2009: Bernard Haurwitz Award, American Meteorological Society

External links

• http://www.whoi.edu/profile.do?id=jpedlosky Joseph Pedlosky's homepage at Woods Hold Oceanographic Institute