New Steps of the Modern Oceanography:
Reminiscences of My Work with Evgeny
Georgievich Morozov
Victor G. Neiman
Eugene G. Morozov knows not only how to perform field measurements in the
most interesting locations, but also how to process and analyze these measurements
applying all his expertise and knowledge of physics and mathematics. As a result,
just right after each expedition, a draft of a scientific paper has been ready. The
spectrum of the scientific coverage of his publications includes almost all aspects of
the hydrological regime of the ocean. However, the main part of his publications is
dedicated to his continuous interest and scientific passion: the internal tides. When
we hear his presentations about the new results in this field of oceanography his
colleagues and I feel involved in his scientific enthusiasm. Eventually, it led to a
paper together with Eugene on internal waves (published in Doklady Earth Sciences
in 2000), despite the fact that I was already an elderly scientist who has been
studying oceanic currents during all my life. The title of the paper was “Energy
decay of internal tidal waves generated near submarine ridges”. The analysis in this
paper was related to the fact that internal tides generated over large-scale underwater slopes can propagate over more than 1000 km before their energy decreases
by one order of magnitude. Thus, this research clarified the spatiotemporal characteristics of the dissipation of internal tides, which appeared important for the
correct estimates of the energy balance of the oceanic circulation needed for the
global climate estimates. Not more than three years passed since this publication,
and I was again involved be Eugene and his colleagues in the research of internal
tides in the western region of the Arctic Ocean. This work was published in 2003
also in Doklady Earth Sciences under the title “Internal tidal waves in the Barents
Sea”. In this case my professional interest to the thermodynamic regime of the
Barents Sea was not occasional. Not long before this publication we had finished a
research on estimating the response of the Barents Sea to the El Niño events, which
V. G. Neiman ( ✉ )
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia
e-mail: vneiman2007@yandex.ru
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
M. G. Velarde et al. (eds.), The Ocean in Motion, Springer Oceanography,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71934-4_3
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Reminiscences of My Work with Evgeny
Georgievich Morozov
Victor G. Neiman
Eugene G. Morozov knows not only how to perform field measurements in the
most interesting locations, but also how to process and analyze these measurements
applying all his expertise and knowledge of physics and mathematics. As a result,
just right after each expedition, a draft of a scientific paper has been ready. The
spectrum of the scientific coverage of his publications includes almost all aspects of
the hydrological regime of the ocean. However, the main part of his publications is
dedicated to his continuous interest and scientific passion: the internal tides. When
we hear his presentations about the new results in this field of oceanography his
colleagues and I feel involved in his scientific enthusiasm. Eventually, it led to a
paper together with Eugene on internal waves (published in Doklady Earth Sciences
in 2000), despite the fact that I was already an elderly scientist who has been
studying oceanic currents during all my life. The title of the paper was “Energy
decay of internal tidal waves generated near submarine ridges”. The analysis in this
paper was related to the fact that internal tides generated over large-scale underwater slopes can propagate over more than 1000 km before their energy decreases
by one order of magnitude. Thus, this research clarified the spatiotemporal characteristics of the dissipation of internal tides, which appeared important for the
correct estimates of the energy balance of the oceanic circulation needed for the
global climate estimates. Not more than three years passed since this publication,
and I was again involved be Eugene and his colleagues in the research of internal
tides in the western region of the Arctic Ocean. This work was published in 2003
also in Doklady Earth Sciences under the title “Internal tidal waves in the Barents
Sea”. In this case my professional interest to the thermodynamic regime of the
Barents Sea was not occasional. Not long before this publication we had finished a
research on estimating the response of the Barents Sea to the El Niño events, which
V. G. Neiman ( ✉ )
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia
e-mail: vneiman2007@yandex.ru
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
M. G. Velarde et al. (eds.), The Ocean in Motion, Springer Oceanography,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71934-4_3
15