| 释义 |
- Career
- Selected writings
- Awards and honors
- References
{{Orphan|date=June 2017}}{{Infobox scientist
|name = Alan J. Faller
|image =Alan Faller 2013.jpg
|caption = Faller in 2013
|birth_name = Alan Judson Faller
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1929|03|04}}
|birth_place = Roslindale, Massachusetts, U.S.
| residence = Burlington, MA.
| citizenship = American
| alma_mater = MIT (B.S., 1951; M.Sc., 1953, Sc.D. 1957 - Atmospheric Sciences)
| known_for = Small oceanic and atmospheric circulation research
| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship
|field = Meteorology/OceanographyAlan Judson Faller (born March 4, 1929) is an American meteorologist / oceanographer specializing in small oceanic and atmospheric circulation. He is the son of the Olympic runner Fred Faller. CareerIn 1949, Faller took a one-year sabbatical from his studies at MIT to spend a year in the arctic (at the Resolute Bay weather station) collecting atmospheric data with weather balloons. While there, he and an associate discovered a cairn on Griffith Island, marking what appeared to be a grave. As a result of Faller’s notice to a Canadian archeologist, it was later discovered through research that this was the grave of an officer on the HMS Resolute, buried there in 1850 during the Resolute’s first search for Sir John Franklin and pursuit of the Passage. After returning to MIT and completing his Sc.D., Faller was a researcher at WHOI from 1954 to 1963. From 1963 to 1989 he was a professor at the University of Maryland in the Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics. His research was critical in the understanding of Langmuir circulations.[1] and two instabilities of Ekman boundary layers. Selected writingsSome of Alan J. Faller's publications include: - {{cite journal |last=Faller |first=Alan |date=1956 |title=Atmospheric Model Studies |journal=Oceanus (WHOI) |volume=IV |issue= |pages=2–11 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Faller |first=Alan |date=1959 |title=Further examples of stationary planetary flow patterns in bounded basins |journal=Tellus |volume=XII |issue= |pages=159–170 }}
- {{cite conference |last1=Faller |first1=Alan |title=An Experimental Analogy to and Proposed Explanation of Hurricane Spiral Bans |conference=2nd Technical Conference on Hurricanes |date=1961 |location=Miami Beach, FL |url=http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/TM/NHRP_50_II_1962.pdf}}
- {{cite journal |last=Faller |first=Alan |date=1963 |title=An Experimental Study of the Instability of the Laminar Ekman Boundary Layer |journal=Journal of Fluid Mechanics |volume=15 |issue= |pages=560–576 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Faller |first=Alan |date=1964 |title=The angle of windrows in the ocean |journal=Tellus |volume=XVI |issue= |pages= 363–370 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Faller |first=Alan |last2=Kaylor |first2=R.E. |date=1966 |title=A numerical study of the instability of the laminar Ekman boundary layer |journal=J. Atmos. Sci. |volume=23 |issue= |pages=466–480 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Faller |first=Alan |last2=Kaylor |first2=R.E. |date=1969 |title=Oscillatory and transitory Eckman boundary layer |journal=Deep-Sea Res. |volume=16 |issue= |pages=45–58 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Faller |first=Alan |last2=Kaylor |first2=R.E. |date=1970 |title=Numerical Studies of Penetrative Convective Instabilities |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research |volume=75 |issue=3 |pages=52 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Faller |first=Alan |last2=Mooney |first2=K.A. |date=1971 |title=The Ekman Boundary-Layer Stress Due to Flow Over a Regular Array of Hills |journal=Boundary-Layer Meteoreology |volume=2 |issue= |pages=83–107 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Faller |first=Alan |date=1971 |title=Oceanic Turbulence and the Langmuir circulations |journal=Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics |volume=2 |issue= |pages= 201–236 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Faller |first=Alan |date=1986 |title=The Roles of Langmuir Circulations in the Dispersion of Surface Tracers |journal=Journal of Physical Oceanography |volume=18 |issue=8 |pages=2402–2417 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Faller |first=Alan |date=1992 |title=Approximate Second-order Two-point Velocity Relations for Turbulent Dispersion |journal=Journal of Fluid Mechanics |volume=244 |issue= |pages=713–720 }}
- {{cite book |title=The Weather and Climate of Monhegan, 04852 |last=Faller |first=Alan J. |publisher=Mainstay Publishing |year=2003 |isbn=0965859339 |location=Melrose, MA. 02176 |pages= |quote= |via= }}
Awards and honors- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, awarded in 1960 (Natural Sciences, Earth Science)
- [https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/ Fellow of the American Physical Society], awarded in 1974
- [https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/about-ams/ams-organization-and-administration/list-of-fellows/ Fellow of the American Meteorological Society]
- Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland
References1. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=ccJsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA299&dq=Alan+Faller&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWhqLChJbRAhWm3YMKHfaiB8kQ6AEILjAE#v=onepage&q=Alan%20Faller&f=false|title=Fluid Mechanics and the Environment: Dynamical Approaches: A Collection of Research Papers Written in Commemoration of the 60th Birthday of Sidney Leibovich|last=Lumley|first=John|date=2008-01-11|publisher=Springer|isbn=9783540445128|language=en}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Faller, Alan J.}} 6 : 1929 births|Living people|People from Boston|University of Maryland, College Park faculty|American meteorologists|Guggenheim Fellows |