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Henry Stommel  

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  • HENRY STOMMEL IS an American oceanographer and meteorologist whose theories on general circulation patterns in the Atlantic Ocean made him the creator of the modern field of dynamical oceanography. Stommel carried out a series of research studies and first suggested that the Earth's rotation is responsible for the Gulf Stream along the coast of North America. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change; Stommel, Henry (1920–92)]

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