• 1967

• Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-2019

• McGraw-Hill Films

• United States Productions

Located in Series 13) AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS.

This digital file was recorded from original media in the Walter Munk Papers (Box 75, Folder 4).

Betacam video copy of original 16mm film print

From the Lamont-Columbia University Marine Science film series, "The earth and the sea," sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

"Waves across the Pacific" is a documentary featuring Dr. Walter Munk and his colleagues at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. In 1963, Munk conducted an experiment tracing the course of waves and wave energy from their origins in Antarctica to the shores of Alaska. Oceanographers had speculated for some time that Antarctic storms generate enormous waves which can be detected half-way around the globe. The experiment included development of special instrumentation to detect waves and installation of recording stations along points in the Pacific (including use of the new Floating Instrument Platform, FLIP). By determining the wave period, or interval of time from one crest to the next, it was possible to predict the arrival time at the next recording site. The experiment collected some ten million data points on tape documenting waves from 12 major storms; with computer analysis of the data, the scientists succeeded in plotting the wave climate across the Pacific.

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• University of California, San Diego. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

• Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-2019

• Ocean Waves
• Oceanographic instruments
• Surface waves (Oceanography)

• video

• English

Online finding aid

• Walter Munk Papers

• Unknown

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