| RefNo | EC/1984/06 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XXI, 142 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Cartwright, David Edgar: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1980 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | After making important contributions to the statistical theory of ocean surface waves and the oscillatory motions of ships, David Cartwright has become a leading investigator of ocean tides.
He owes his success in this to a well combined use of the available tools - deep sea pressure measurements using specially developed instruments in carefully selected sites, analysis of these and other records using powerful new methods of time series analysis, and skilled interpretation in terms of tidal dynamics supplemented by numerical models where required.
His interests include the tides of the solid Earth and the surprisingly strong interactions between the fluid and solid tides: his latest major paper on the northeast Atlantic (the result of ten years of observation, analysis and interpretation) provides the first directly measured estimates of the oceanic tidal energy flux and dissipation since the pioneering studies of G. I. Taylor and H. Jeffreys, with implications for the long-standing problem of the Moon's recession from the Earth. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3351 | Cartwright; David Edgar (1926 - 2015) | 1926 - 2015 |