Adrian Edmund Gill | |
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| Born | 22 February 1937 |
| Died | 19 April 1986 (aged 49) |
| Awards | Chree medal and prize (1985) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Meteorology and oceanography |
| Thesis | The Stability of Axisymmetric Fluid Flows (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Batchelor |
Adrian Edmund Gill FRS[1] (22 February 1937 – 19 April 1986) was an Australian meteorologist and oceanographer best known for his textbook Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics.[2] Gill was born in Melbourne, Australia, and worked at Cambridge, serving as Senior Research Fellow from 1963 to 1984.[3] His father was Edmund Gill, geologist, palaeontologist and curator at the National Museum of Victoria.
Gill was chair of the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere program. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1986.[4] His candidacy citation read: "Dr A. E. Gill is internationally recognised for his work in geophysical fluid dynamics and leads a small but highly productive team working on problems in dynamical oceanography and meteorology. He has made outstanding theoretical contributions to a wide range of topics, including the stability of pipe flow, thermal convection, circulation of the Southern Ocean, seasonal variability of the ocean, waves in rotating fluids, wind-induced upwelling, coastal currents and sea-level changes and coastally-trapped waves in the atmosphere, and he is particularly effective in the way he is able to interpret observations and guide the activities of observational workers".