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A Guide to the Henry Melson Stommel Papers, 1946-1996

Manuscript Collection MC-06
37 boxes (19.25 lin. ft.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Biographical Information

Scope and Content Note

Administrative Information

Arrangement

Index Terms

Folder List


Biographical Information

Henry Melson Stommel was born in Wilmington, Delaware on September 27, 1920. He was the first child of Marian Estelle Melson and Walter Herman Karl Stommel. A year after his birth, his father, a chemist, moved the family to Sweden. A year later, his mother left Sweden when she was pregnant with Henry's sister Anne, and never returned. She initially went to Wilmington but soon moved an extended family to Brooklyn, New York, where she supported them.

Henry Stommel attended New York Public Schools and then received a full scholarship to Yale University where he studied astronomy, graduating in 1942. He spent the postgraduate years l942-1944 at the Yale Observatory and concurrently studied at the Yale Divinity School. Lyman Spitzer Jr. helped him obtain employment at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in September 1944. He worked first with Maurice Ewing and then with Jeffreys Wyman, working on the results of trade cumulus.

He took two leaves of absence from WHOI, which he thought important to his development: the first, in 1946 to study with C.G. Rossby at the University of Chicago; and the second, from 1946-1947 to the Imperial College in London. Stommel remained at WHOI until l959, when he accepted an offer from Harvard University to teach. He was prompted to accept this position because of his disagreement with the policies of WHOI's director, Paul Fye. The years he spent at Harvard (1960-1963) were not happy ones, however, and at the end of that period he joined the Department of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institution of Technology, where he remained for sixteen years. When Fye retired as director, Stommel returned to WHOI, where he remained until his death in 1992.

In l948 he published a paper which marked the birth of the field of dynamical oceanography in the US. Over the next forty-four years he came to be considered the most important physical oceanographer of his time.

Henry Stommel was married on December 6, 1950 to Elizabeth Huntington Brown (b. October 26, 1926), known as Chickie. They had three children: Matthew, Elijah, and Abigail Stommel Adams.

For other biographical accounts, see:

Hogg, Nelson and Huang, Rui Zin, eds. The Collected Works of Henry Stommel, Vol. I. Preface, 1995. (This includes an unpublished portion of Henry Stommel's autobiography, The Sea of the Beholder. Drafts of the entire manuscript are located in Stommel's papers.)
Oceanus, Vol. 35, Special Issue, 1992, "A tribute to Henry Stommel."
Veronis, George. “Henry Melson Stommel, 27 September, 1920-17 January, 1992.” Journal of Marine Research 50 (1992), i-viiii.
Wunsch, Carl. “Henry Stommel, September 27, 1920-January 17, 1992.” Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 72 (1997), 331-350.
In addition, WHOI’s oral history collection has two audiotapes, entitled "Carl Wunsch's interview with Chickie Stommel 8/24/95".
The Film Vault also contains an audiotape and a videotape (T-39) entitled “Celebrating the publication of the Henry Stommel Collection 3/8/1996”.

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Scope and Content Note

The Henry Melson Stommel papers span the years 1946-1996 with the bulk dating from 1970-1992. The collection reflects the varied scientific interests of Henry Melson Stommel, regarded by some as perhaps the most important physical oceanographer of all time and the founder of the field of dynamical oceanography in the US. Its primary focus is the scientific work that engrossed him for over 41 years. A large portion of the collection consists of drafts and research for scientific books and articles, most of which he wrote after returning to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1978 after years teaching at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institution of Technology. Although there is relatively little purely personal information, Stommel's colleagues often became his friends, so many letters contain some personal information. His correspondence, with scientific figures of the day, is wide-ranging.

Location of Disks

Note: All 5-l/4" disks were transferred to 3-l/2" disks

All the computer disks listed in the container list were removed from their folders and placed in the document box at the end series. The original locations of the disks are listed in the following table:

Disk # Box Folder
1 6 21
2 11 2
3 12 25
4 13 33
5 13 35
6,7,8 16/17 65-68
9 17 69
10 17 70
11 17 71-72
12,13 17/18 2-6
14 24 67
15,16,17 27 7
18 27 8, 14-15
19 27 17
20 28 19
21,22 28 22
23 28 27
24-30 28 32
31-33 28 37
34-37 29 45
38 29 51
39-40 29 55
41-42 30 62
43 28 21

Index to Correspondents in Series II, Correspondence

Routine business correspondence has not been included in the index.

Year To/From Correspondent
1949 Letter to: Pres. Sproul, President, University of California
Letter from: Pres. Sproul, President, University of California
1950 Letters from: Columbus Iselin
H.C. Daives, University of Chicago
1951 Letter to: Donald Pritchard, Chesapeake Bay Institute
Letter from: Yale University
1952 Letter to: Louis Benjamin
Letters from: Louis Benjamin
Richard M. Elliott
1953 Letters to: Manuel d'Azevedo Castro Neves
Paul Henson
Grenge League Federation
H.E. Babcock
Letters from: Paul Henson
C. Ewing
1954 Letter from: Manuel Neves
1960 Letters to: Columbus Iselin
A.F. Spilhaus
E.B. Wilson
Paul M. Fye
Letters from: Paul M. Fye
1961 Letters from: Joanne S. Malkus
N.B. McLean
1964 Letters to: Dr. Chuji Tsuboi [?]
Dr. Norman P. Neureoter [?]
Prof. Kiyou Wadfat
1965 Letter from: Thomas H. Hamilton, University of Hawaii
1966 Letters to: Dr. Richard Bader
1967 Letters from: Bernard Saint-Gueley [?]
1969 Letters from: Charles L. Osterberg
Warren S. Wooster
Edward Fredkin Charitable Foundation
1970 Letters from: Alan J. Faller
Brian J. Skinner
Gad Assaf
Walter H. Munk
1971 Letters to: Prof. A.S. Monin
Mr. Feenan Jennings
Dean John Knauss
Dr. N.D. Bank
Dr. Roberto Frassetto
Mr. R.J. Smith
Prof. Allan Robinson
Dr. Arthur Maxwell
Dr. Nelson Hogg
George Veronis
Letters from: Ledolph Baer
Prof. Melvin E. Stern
Nelson Hogg
Dr. N.D. Bang
Prof. Antonio Marussi
Mark Winbush
Fred A. Donath
John R. Apel
Dr. A. Leetman
L. Fovin
George F. Carrier
Professor Antonio Marussi
Mike Gregg
J. Joseph
Richard Vetter
Michael Czepan
John Swallow
C.H. Mortimer
G.M. Corcos
Bertil Ostrom
F. Fedorov
1972 Letters from: Mary Sears
Henri Lacombe
Nelson Hogg
Theodore D. Foster
Letters to: Theodore D. Foster
1973 Letters from: Dr. Michele Fieux
Prof. Henri Lacombe
Letter to: Dr. Michele Fieux
1975 Letters from: Mrs. J. Swallow
George Veronis
1978 Letter from: Yeh Tu-Cheng
1980 Letter from: Allan R. Robinson
F.G. Wood
Edwin Bryan, Jr.
1981 Letters from: Donald Parson
Jesse Swinson
1982 Letter from: Michele Fieux
Donald Parson
John D. Post
1983 Letters from: Andrew David
Dr. Charles E.S. Arps
H.E. Landsberg
Dr. M. Samuels
R. Caborloc
Peter H. Raven
Letters to: Dr. Morton F. Meads
Dr. Marwyn S. Samuels
1984 Letters from: Henri Lacombe
A.C.F. David
Dr. Deacon
Dr. I. Shearer
Eric Wanner
Lucy Fromin
Letters to: Bob Millard
Bruce Warren
Dr. Gargosian
J.F. Gilbert
Carl Wunsch
1985 Letters from: George Veronis
L. Talley
Letters to: Academician L. Brekhovskilt
Raymond C. Smith
Dr. Walter Brundage
Mr. Yashushi Fukamachi
1986 Letters to: R.C. Beardsley
Mrs. S.M. Usher
Letters from: Anthony H. Knap
1987 Letters from: Konstantin Nicholaevich Fedorov
John R. Adel
Wilton Sturges
Larry P. Atkinson
Letters to: Dr. Wilton Sturges
Dr. Joseph Keller
1988 Letters from: Haraldur Sigurdsson
Eric Mollo-Christensen
Karl K. Turekian
Letters to: Prof. Michael Mullen
1989 Letters to: Allen Peterson
Dr. Freeman Gilhart
1990 Letters from: Jim Pria
Jonathan Werner
I.O.S. Wormley
Carl A. Friehl
Pierre Welander
A.I. Fel'Zenbaum
Dr. Roy M. Greer
Zinovy I. Kizner
Letters to: Russ Davis
Prof. Lillian Hornig
Dr. Craig Dorman
Prof. J.E. Kutzbach
1991 Letters from: W.S. Broecker
Freeman Gilbert
Mary and John Swallow
R. Ballard
Peter Killworth
Richard Lambert, Jr.
Letters to: Roy M. Green
Larry P. Atkinson
Prof. M.B. Ariyapala
Editor, Ocean Modeling
Dr. Robert Knox
Dr. Vincent Courtillot
Prof. Christian Moers

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Administrative Information

Custodial History

On April 6, l992, the WHOI Archives removed approximately 43 boxes of materials from the Stommel home at 766 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth. An additional 18 boxes were removed from Stommel's office in the Clark Building (Room 310A of the Physical Oceanography Department) on April 29, 1992, as well as three instruments: l) a 2" lead ball on a tether; 2) a demonstration model to illustrate the Corioliis force; 3) an Ashton brass double spring steam pressure gage 0-500 lbs.

Preferred Citation

Henry Melson Stommel (1920-1992) Papers, 1946-1996. MC-06, "Folder Name." Data Library and Archives, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Acquisitions Information

The Henry Melson Stommel Papers were given to the WHOI Archives on April 6, 1992 by Mrs. Stommel. In 1996 the Physical Oceanography Department gave the archives two boxes that contained materials relating to the 1995 publication of The Collected Works of Henry Stommel. These materials were condensed into a box and a document box and added as the Book Compilation Materials series to Stommel’s collection. In November 1999 Jim Luyten, Associate Director for Research, gave the archives 3 folders; these were integrated into the collection in January 2000.

Processing Information

Processed by Nancy Kougeas. The 61 boxes received in April 1992 were consolidated into 48 boxes during l992 or l993, before the collection was processed. Because of this consolidation, coupled with the fact that Henry Stommel had changed the order of folders and also destroyed many items, the original filing arrangement of the collection often could not be ascertained. Any existing order within the collection was retained, although most of the materials needed to be re-arranged. During processing, basic preservation measures were taken, staples were removed and copying done as necessary.

Access

Open: materials are available for research.

Use

Copyright: Permission to publish material from the collection must be authorized by the Institution Archivist.

Related Material

WHOI ARCHIVES:
The papers of James Luyten, Manuscript Collection MC 32, contain correspondence, proposals, and project materials that Luyten and Stommel collaborated on.
The records of the Office of the Director contain folders about Henry Stommel, including personnel information with photographs and newsclippings; public relations information concerning the celebration of the publication of his Collected Works; and his grants and contracts.
Box 24, f. 39 – Personnel 1953-1957
Box 26, f. 26 – Personnel, 1960-1962
Box 27, f. 23 – Grants and Contracts NSF G8189, 1958-1959
Box 28, f. 23 – Grants and Contracts, Bur. of Aeronautics, Noas-51-009-c, contract C, 1950-1951
Box 116, f.14 – Correspondence 1983
The Audio Collection has the following tapes: "Carl Wunsch's Interview with Chickie Stommel, 8/24/95" (2 tapes); and an interview with Henry Stommel concerning “The growth of Woods Hole and current status and future of research”, August 15, 1977, not transcribed (2 master tapes and 2 improved DVP’s).
The Instrument Collection has three instruments described in the custodial history note.
WHOI’s Biographical Files also contain information and photographs of Stommel.
PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT:
The Physical Oceanography Department library (and The Data Library and Archives) contain a copy of a rough draft of: Atlas of the Deep, Stroup and Stommel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. This is the only work not listed in the Collected Works of Henry Stommel.
MIT, INSTITUTE ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS:
Archival collection AC 42- Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE), contains material relating to Stommel. The collection includes correspondence from 1958, 1969-1974, and proposals. Stommel was a driving force behind the plans for the experiment, and corresponded with an international roster of scientists, many of whom were involved in MODE.
SCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, ARCHIVES:
One or more letters by Stommel can be found in the following manuscript collections:
Robert Siple Arthur Papers Accession 96-6
Carl Eckart Papers MC 22
Walter Munk Papers MC 17
Roger Revelle Papers MC 6

Separated Material

All the computer disks listed in the container list were removed from their folders and placed in the document box at the end series. The ‘Location of Disks’ serves as another index to these disks.

Materials removed from the collection include: three instruments placed in the WHOI Historic Instrument Collection; a wooden box and a cardboard box of lantern slides placed in the film vault; and 2 audio-tapes of an “Interview with Chickie Stommel and Carl Wunsch/MIT Professor, 8/24/95” added to the oral history collection. Published copies of his works were removed from the collection, as were general reprints that had not been arranged in any order.

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Arrangement

The collection consists of 9 series:

List of Series:
Biographical
Correspondence
National Science Foundation Grants
Scientific Experiments and Expeditions
Drafts of and Research for Articles
Book Drafts
Data
Notebooks, Lectures, Exhibits
Book Compilation Materials

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Index Terms

Researchers wishing to find related materials should search the MBLWHOI Library catalog under these terms.

Ocean circulation.
Ocean currents.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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Folder List

Biographical 1950-1992 1.5 boxes (.75 lin. ft.)
Scope and Content Note
This series contains materials dating from the 1950’s through 1997. It includes Henry Stommel’s passports and daily calendars for the years 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, (l undated); his Curriculum Vitae, and information about a sabbatical year (l974-1977). It also includes medals and awards, arranged alphabetically, and honorary invitations. There are four folders of designs he created including letterhead and drawings, cartoons and poems, and a family newsletter. There is background information for and a draft of the Biographical Memoir written by Carl Wunsch for the National Academy of Science, including an interview with Elizabeth Stommel and correspondence with Anne Stommel (his sister). Also included are notes relating to Henry Stommel’s early years in Woods Hole by Professor R.B. Montgomery, and the Bulletin interview of September 20, 1990.
1 1 US Passports 1955, 1957, 1962, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981
2 Calendars 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971,1973, 1974, undated
3 Curriculum Vitae 1992
4 Sabbatical Year 1974-1977
5 Bigelow Medal 1974
6 Bowie Award 1982
7 Crafoord Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1983
8 Grand Prix d’Oceanographie de Monaco 1978-1982
9 A.G. Huntsman Award 1980
10 National Medal of Science 1989
11 AAAS - Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science 1977
12 The Royal Society 1983
13 The Royal Society-Celebration of the Birth of Michael Faraday 1991
14 The Henry Stommel Medal in Oceanography (Awarded to John Swallow) 1994
15 Imperial Palace Invitation 1966
16 Drawings, Cartoons and Poems undated
17 Letterhead and Designs and Posters undated
2 18 Sippewissett Times 1971
19 Newsclippings and Notes undated
20 Brochure - “Ceremonie de remise d’une epee a Henry Lancombe” 1975
21 Notes related to Stommel’s early years in Woods Hole and correspondence: Stommel’s Collected works by Prof. R.B. Montgomery 1969, 1979
22 Bulletin Interview 1990
23 Interviews of Elizabeth Stommel by Carl Wunsch - Draft and Correspondence 1996
24 Correspondence with Anne Stommel and Carl Wunsch 1966
25 Biographical Memoir by Carl Wunsch for National Academy of Science 1997
26 Preface to a book written by Robert Penn Warren, mentioning Mrs. Stommel undated
36 27 Publication inscribed to H. Stommel by L.F. Richardson and Life of Richardson by Oliver Ashford 1950, 1985
OS1 28 Wheel of Luck presented to H. Stommel 1989
Correspondence 1947-1992 2.5 boxes (1.25 lin. ft.)
Scope and Content Note
This series is comprised of 30 folders of incoming and outgoing correspondence. The series covers the years 1949 to 1954 and 1960 to 1992, although there is no correspondence from l955 to 1960. The bulk is for the years 1971 to 1992. See the collection scope and content note for an index to the correspondents represented in the series. Folders for both l960 and l961 have many letters relating to WHOI's reorganization and concerns of the staff scientists about this. One folder, dated 1966-1987 contains equipment requisitions, and another dated 1990-1991 concerns the WHOI Library Committee.
Arrangement
Folders are chronologically arranged except for the last 2 folders, which have subject headings.
2 1 Correspondence 1947-1954
2 Correspondence 1960-1966
3 Correspondence 1967-1970
4 Correspondence (folder 1 of 4) 1971
3 5-7 Correspondence (folders 2-4 of 4) 1971
8 Correspondence 1972
9 Correspondence 1973-1974
10 Correspondence 1975
11 Correspondence 1976
12 Correspondence 1977
13 Correspondence 1978
14 Correspondence 1979
15 Correspondence 1980
16 Correspondence 1981
17 Correspondence 1982
18 Correspondence 1983
19 Correspondence 1984
20 Correspondence 1985
4 21 Correspondence 1986
22 Correspondence 1987
23 Correspondence 1988
24 Correspondence 1989
25 Correspondence 1990
26-27 Correspondence (2ff.) 1991
28 Correspondence 1992
29 Equipment Correspondence and Property Cards 1966-1987
5 30 Library Committee 1990-1991
National Science Foundation Grants 1965-1994 2.25 boxes (1.125 lin. ft.)
Scope and Content Note
Materials span the years 1971 to 1994, and consist of proposals, project reports and correspondence with the National Science Foundation, and letters from the Foundation approving grants or requesting information.
Research in Ocean Physics, 1965-1985 (9 ff.)
Heat Flux, Oceanic/Climate of Europe/Subpolar "Gyre"- Draft, [1979]
Large Scale Zonal Structure of Equatorial Currents in the Tropical Pacific, 1979-1982 (4 ff.)
Publication of the Polymode Atlas and Data Inventory, 1979 and l984-87 (2 ff.)
Research on Buoyancy Forcing and Subduction in the Ocean, 1985 (1 f.)
A Transatlantic Hydrographic Section Along 65W, 1985-1986 (1 f.)
Research in the Ocean Circulation, 1987-1990 (4 ff.)
Horizontal Exchange and T/S Regulation in the Mixed Layer, 1991-1994 (2 ff.)
Arrangement
This series is arranged chronologically and then alphabetically by title of grant.
Research in Ocean Physics
5 1 Research in Ocean Physics 1965, 1966, 1971, 1974
2-3 Research in Ocean Physics (2 ff.) 1978
4 Research in Ocean Physics 1979
5 Research in Ocean Physics 1980
6 Research in Ocean Physics 1981
7 Research in Ocean Physics 1982
8 Research in Ocean Physics 1983
6 9 Research in Ocean Physics 1984, 1985
Heat Flux, Oceanic/Climate of Europe/Subpolar “Gyre”
6 10 Heat Flux, Oceanic/Climate of Europe/Subpolar “Gyre”-Draft [1979]
Large Scale Zonal Structure of Equatorial Currents
6 11 Large Scale Zonal Structure of Equatorial Currents 1979
12 Large Scale Zonal Structure of Equatorial Currents 1980
13 Large Scale Zonal Structure of Equatorial Currents 1981
14 Large Scale Zonal Structure of Equatorial Currents 1982
Polymode Atlas
6 15 Publication of Polymode Atlas and Data Inventory 1979
16 Joint US-USSR Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (POLYMODE) Atlas Completion and Distribution 1984-1987
Research on Buoyancy Forcing and Subduction in the Ocean
6 17 Research on Buoyancy Forcing and Subduction in the Ocean 1985
A Transatlantic Hydrographic Section Along 65
6 18 A Transatlantic Hydrographic Section Along 65 1985, 1986
Research on the Ocean Circulation
6 19 Research on the Ocean Circulation 1986-1987
20 Research on the Ocean Circulation 1988
21 Research on the Ocean Circulation [DISK #l] 1989
22 Research on the Ocean Circulation 1990, 1991
Horizontal Exchange and T/S Regulation in the Mixed Layer
7 23 Horizontal Exchange and T/S Regulation in the Mixed Layer 1991
24 Horizontal Exchange and T/S Regulation in the Mixed Layer 1992-1994
Scientific Experiments and Expeditions 1952-1993 4.25 boxes (2.125 lin. ft.)
Scope and Content Note
This series spans the years 1953 to 1993, and includes three folders of ships' schedules and information on the following expeditions
Cable Projects, l953-l955, (8 ff.) and l971-l972, (2 ff.): Correspondence, technical reports, trip expenses, and data books on cable projects including Key West-Havana Cable and Bermuda to Grand Turk Subcable.
Eltanin Project Cruises, l965-l967 (includes SCORPIO Expedition), (4 ff.)
SCOR, GEOSECS, 1968-1972, (1 f.)
FOTAS (Friends of the Arabian Sea), 1969-1973, (8 ff.)
GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) and GATE, 1971-1975 (2 ff.)
MODE (Mid-ocean Dynamics Experiment) and PREMODE, 1971-1972, (3 ff.)
INDEX (Indian Ocean Experiment), 1973-1978, (10 ff.)
WOCE (World Ocean Circulation Experiment), 1984-1985 (3 ff.)
Pequod, l979-1980 and Semaphore Experiment, 1979-1980 and 1991, 1993, (2 ff.)
SLOCUM, 1988-1991, (14 ff.)
Ships Schedules, 1971, 1978, 1978-1979
Arrangement
Folders are arranged chronologically by first year of expedition and then alphabetically by title.
Cables
7 1 Cables 1953
2-3 DG, WD – Correspondence (2 ff.) 1952-1955
4 Ciudad Trip expenses 1955
5 Transport and the Tides 1952, 1953
6-7 Computation Book (2ff) 1952-1953
8 Key West - Havana Cable Voltage 1952
9 Bermuda - Grand Turk subcable 1971, 1972
10 Bermuda A – Curl 1954-1961
Eltanin
7 11 Eltanin (2 ff.) 1965-1967
12 Eltanin (2 ff.) 1965-1967
13 Eltanin - Scorpio Reports 1967, undated
14 Scorpio Expedition undated
SCOR, GEOSECS
7 15 SCOR, GEOSECS 1968, 1972
FOTAS
7 16 Correspondence 1969-1973
17 Chain Cruise 1970
18 Data 1970
19 GARP Newsletter 1972
8 20 Miscellaneous Notes 1972
21 Illustrations 1973
22 Proposals 1973
23 Satellites 1973
GARP and GATE
8 24 GARP and GATE 1971-1985
25 Contents of Loose-leaf Binder 1971-1975
MODE and PREMODE
8 26 MODE and PREMODE 1971-1972
9 27 Polymode Atlas - Work with Andrei S. Monin 1970-1984
28 Polymode Atlas Distribution List 1986
INDEX
9 29 Correspondence 1973-1975
30 O-First Steps—Original Pages
31 Planning Committee 1976
32 Proposals 1974-1978
33 Proposals and Planning 1975
34 Statement of Purpose 1974, undated
35 Satellites 1974
36 Seychelles undated
37 “India File” (Contents of Loose-leaf Notebook) 1976-1980
38 India Research Data, Bombay to Mombasa 1977, 1978
PEQUOD
10 39 Pequod 1979-1980
40 Semaphore Experiment 1991, 1993
SLOCUM
10 41 The Slocum Mission 1988
42 Thermal engine Design, Slocum 1990
43 Slocum Sensors 1990
44 Slocum Committee 1990, 1991
45-46 ONT Proposal (Slocum) (2 ff.) undated
47-48 Slocum Proposals (2 ff.) 1991
11 49 Slocum Instrument Designs 1991
50 Nature Letter 1991
51 ONT Figures and Quad Chart 1991
52 Slocums – Telemetry 1991
53 Slocum Data [1991]
54 Slocum Computation Book [1991]
55 Slocum Overlays [1991]
56 Slocum, Research Article [1991]
"Ships’ Schedules"
11 57 WHOI Ship Schedule 1971
58 Eastward (Ship Schedule) 1978
59 Ships’ Schedules 1978-1979
Drafts and Research for Articles 1952-1992 6.5 boxes (3.25 lin. ft.)
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of the 45 papers in the series were written during the years 1988 to 1992.
Arrangement
Papers are arranged by year, then alphabetically by title.
11 1 “Completion of the Beta-Spiral Study…” undated
2 “On Locating Characteristic Regimes in the Circulation…”, [DISK #2] undated
3 “The Equations of Physical Oceanography…” undated
4 “Potential measurements from Nova Scotia…” undated
5 “An Electrical Analog for the Ekman…” 1952
6 “Preliminary Report on March Bermuda Cruise” 1953
7 “The Circulation of the Continental Shelf” 1972
8 “Investigation of the Subpolar Gyre in the North Atlantic” 1979
9 “William Leighton Jordan Esq. Award” [1979?]
10 “The Ocean and William Leighton Jordan” 1980
11 “Night Thoughts on Beta-Modulated Vortices” 1984
12 “Regimes in the Subpolar Gyre, Part I” 1984
13 “Some Preliminary Information Thoughts on What Hetons” 1984
12 14 “A Beta-Control of Buoyancy-Driven Geostrophic Flows” (proof) 1985
15 “Experiments with Cross-Gyre Flow Patterns on a Beta-Plane” 1985
16 “Groundwater Stimulator” 1985
17 “Gyres Driven by Combined Wind and Buoyancy Flux” 1985, 1986
18 “Experiments with Cross-Gyre Flow Patterns…” 1986
19 “Interaction of Two Initially Untitled Vertical Vortex…” Circa 1986
20 “On Closing the Ocean Circulation” 1986
21 “Some Examples of Finite Amplitude Forced Flow…” Circa 1986
22-23 “Maximizing Heat Flux And Geostrophic Sections” (2 ff.) 1987
24 “Surface Energy Fluxes of the South Atlantic,” by Andrew Bunker, ed. by H. Stommel 1987, 1991
25 “Coriolis Escapement” [DISK #3] 1988
26-28 “Station S Off Bermuda” - Physical Measurements, Drafts and Research (3 ff.) 1988
13 29-31 “Comparison of M2 Tidal currents Observed…” (4 ff.) 1989
32 “Tidal M2 Currents”-Calculations, Correspondence, Research 1989
33 “Cross Sections of Two Layer Inertial Gulf Stream” [DISK #4] 1989
34 “Maximizing Buoyancy Flux Across Layered Geostrophic Sections” (2ff.) 1989
35 “Natural Bobbers” [DISK #5] 1989
14 36 “Bifurcations in a Simple Model of Intermediate Water Formation” 1990
37 “General Principles for the Design of a World Ocean Observing System (WOOS)” 1990
38-44 “Multiple Equilibrium States…” (6 ff.) 1990
15 45 “Andrew F. Bunker: Pioneering in Air-Sea Interaction…” 1991
46-55 “A Regulating Mechanism…” (10 ff.) 1991
16 56 “Global on a Heart-Shaped Map” 1991
57-61 “Note on the Sources of North Atlantic Deep Water” (5 ff.) 1990, 1991
62 “Model Convective Flow Patterns…” 1991
63 “Response of Saline Water Between Two Boxes…” 1991
64 “Variety of Convective Flow Patterns” 1991
65-67 “The Average T-S Relation of a Stochastically forced…” (folder 1-3 of 4) [DISK #6,7,8] 1991
17 68 “The Average T-S Relation of a Stochastically forced…” (folder 4 of 4) [DISK #6,7,8] 1991
69 “A Conjectural Regulating Mechanism…” [DISK #9] 1991, 1992
70 “Steady Geostrophic Ducts” [DISK #10] 1991
71-72 “Diversity of Flow Patterns Induced by…” (2 ff.) [DISK #11] 1991
73 “Deep Water formation by Two Different Processes” [1991]
74 “The Effect of Double Diffusion on a 2 x 2 Box Model” 1991
75 Ocean Modeling Logo 1991
Book Drafts 1944-1992 10 boxes (5 lin. ft.)
Scope and Content Note
This series contains drafts of books, including background research and articles and correspondence. Also included is research for books not completed.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged alphabetically by title.
Bibliography on Estuaries
17 1 Bibliography on Estuaries 1952
The Coriolis Force
17 2 "The Coriolis Force (folder 1 of 5) [DISK #12, 13]" 1985-1988
18 3-6 "The Coriolis Force (folder 2-5 of 5) [DISK #12, 13]" 1985-1988
The Gulf Stream
18 7 Gulf Stream- Schmitz and Stommel (Contents of a loose-leaf notebook) 1979-1980
8 Old Gulf Stream (Contents of a loose-leaf notebook, research and partial draft) 1983, undated
Lost Islands
18 9 Gilbert Island (Binder Contents with Research) 1976-1979
10 Guano Island (Contents of Binder) 1979
19 11 Islands Which Do Not Exist l-5, 1979 (Contents of Binder with Research for Los Islands) 1979, 1980
12 Islands Which Do Not Exist 6-10 (Contents of Binder with Research for Lost Islands) 1979
13 Islands, 1979 (Binder Contents with Research) 1978, 1979
14 Islands, 1979 (Contents of Binder with Research) 1979
15 Lost Islands 1978-1979
16 Lost Islands - Short Version (Contents of Loose leaf Notebook) 1979
17 Lost Islands - Research Correspondence 1979-1980
18 Guano and Gilbert Islands Research 1981
20 19 Islands Which Do Not Exist 1981
20-21 Lost Islands - Draft and Notes (2 ff.) 1982-1984
22-23 Islands - Letters (Lost Island and Volcano Weather Correspondence, Contents of a Binder) (2 ff.) 1980-1986
24-26 Islands Which Do Not Exist - Old 1980 Text (3 ff.) 1980
27 Lost Islands - Redraft and Condensed Chapters 1981
21 28-29 Islands Which Do Not Exist - Draft Copies (2 ff.) 1981
30 Letters of Permission for Islands Book 1982-1984
31 Los Jardines – Research 1983
32 Final Islands Draft (Contents of Loose Leaf Notebook) 1981
33 Existence Doubtful 1983, 1985
34 Lost Islands - Galley Proofs 1984
35 Lost Islands – Illustrations undated
36-37 Islands That Do Not Exist – Draft (folders 1 and 2 of 3) 1982
22 38 Islands That Do Not Exist – Draft (folder 3 of 3) 1982
39 Lost Islands - Maps 1857, 1901, 1902
40 Research Articles for Lost Islands: A-B
41 Research Articles for Lost Islands: C
42 Research Articles for Lost Islands: D
43 "Research Articles for Lost Islands: E"
44 Research Articles for Lost Islands: F-H
23 45 Research Articles for Lost islands: I-L
46 Research Articles for Lost Islands: M-R
47 Research Articles for Lost Islands: S-Z
36 48 “The Bolton Letters” 1701
49 “Diary Kept by J. Degreaves” 1850
50 “A Directory for the Navigation…” 1871
OS 51 “Journal of the Malayan Branch” 1953
52 “Keller’s Log of the Antarctic” 1828
36 53 “Memoir of a Chart of the Indian Ocean” 1787
54 “Lost Islands” Maps and Charts 1787, 1817, 1864, 1866
55 “Rear Admiral Sir W.J.L. Wharton” undated
56 “Werken Vitgeneven Door…” 1639
On the Nature of Estuarine Circulation
23 57 On the Nature of Estuarine Circulation
The Sea of the Beholder
23 58-59 "The Sea of the Beholder (folder 1 of 3) " 1984
24 60 "The Sea of the Beholder (folders 2 and 3 of 3) " 1984
61-62 The Sea of the Beholder (2 ff.) 1985
63 New material undated
64-64 The Sea of the Beholder (3 ff.) undated
Science of the Seven Seas
24 67 Science of the Seven Seas - Publisher’s Memo of Agreement and Correspondence 1944, 1946
68 Science of the Seven Seas – Photocopy 1944
A View of the Sea
24 69 A View of the Sea - Uncorrected Page Proof Copy and Disk [DISK #14] 1987
25 70 A View of the Sea - Reviews and Correspondence 1985-1988
71 A View of the Sea - Publisher’s Correspondence and Agreements 1986, 1987
72 A View of the Sea – Draft 1985
Volcano Weather
25 73-74 Volcano Weather after 1916- Contents of loose-leaf binder entitled “Research for ‘The Year without a Summer’” (2 ff.) 1979-1982
75-76 Volcano Weather after 1916 - “The Year Without a Summer” – Correspondence (Contents of Loose leaf binder) (2 ff.) 1977-1982
77 Volcano Weather After 1916 – Correspondence 1987-1990
78 Volcano Weather After 1916 – Reviews 1982-1984
79 Volcano Weather After 1916 - Tambora Maps and Photos 1983
26 80 Volcano Weather After 1916 - Tambora Prints and N.H. Tombstone Photos 1976-1981
81 Volcano Weather After 1916 - Negatives and Prints undated
82-83 Volcano Weather After 1916 - Research Articles (2 ff.) undated
Unfinished books
26 84-85 El Nino – Research, Published Articles (2 ff.) 1961-1982
86-87 Oil on Troubled Waters (2 ff.) 1991, 1992
27 88 Scurvy - Proposed Book, Contents of Binder containing letters and research 1982
89 Yellow and Dark Days - Contents of Binder 1980, 1983
Data 1949-1991 3.25 boxes (1.625 lin. ft.)
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of data in various formats including computer printouts, photographs and disks.
Arrangement
Folders are arranged alphabetically.
27 1 ADR Tide Gage - Uliga island, Majuro Atoll 1968
2 Atlantis II Cruise #60 Data 1971
3 Anati Charts undated
4 Balloon Chains undated
5 Beta Spirals – Calculations undated
6 Beta Triangle 1979, 1980
7 Box Models [DISK # 15,16,17] 1983, 1990
8 Box Models - Grapchbox Disk [DISK # 18] undated
9 Chain of Boxes/Stack of Layers 1990
10 Compton Generator—Blueprint and Demo Device 1987, 1991
11 C14 in the Deep Water of the Indian Ocean 1963
12 Data Ocean diagnostics Four Corner 1986
13 Data Print-Outs 1985, 1991
14 Density Profiles by Live Atlas [DISK # 18] undated
15 Divesit Disk and Printout [DISK # 18] 1991
16 Dragnet.Bas. undated
17 Drive Print-Outs and Disk #19 1987
28 18 Dyn. Top Charts/Etc Curl 1963
19 Eddy Tracking - Notebook and Disk #20 1990
20 Eight Box Model Cube 1979
21 Fine Amplitude Stepped Geostrophic Flows in Zonal Current – (with Jim Luyten), Notebook and Disk #43 1988
22 Fronts and Disks #21-22 1988
23-24 Fronts – Interior (2 ff.) 1988
25 General Figures - Wind Stress, Heat Flux 1987
26 Helmholtz Resonator undated
27 Hidaka Box Manuscript and Disk #23 undated
28 Irminger Sea Research and Data 1986, 1987
29 Model Data and Diagnostic Results 1986, 1987
30 Schott and Stommel – Data 1986
31 Model Regimes 1987
32 North Atlantic Disks (7) [DISK # 24-30] undated
33 Oceans Data undated
34 Overlays for Stockholm and Equations undated
35 Pacific Array 1981
OS1 36 Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean 1950
28 37 POLYMODE XBT [DISK # 31-33] 1990
38 Relaxation 1949
39 Results of Ocean Diagnostics 1986
29 40 OS1 Salinity Map of the North Atlantic Ocean undated
41 Sideways and Coriolis Oscillator 1991
42 Sideways.B Mixed Layer undated
43 Six Box undated
44 Station “S” BOXBETHAG. BAG Program undated
45 Station “S” Data-Disks, (9) [DISK # 34-37] undated
46 Stommel and Webster Equations undated
47 Subduction Study 1972, 1984
48 Surface Temperature Map for No. Atlantic undated
49 Temperature, Salinity, Oxygen Data 1957
50 Terms l - New Diag.Newhouse, Printbox 1981-1987
51 “Theory of Convection Cells” [DISK # 38] undated
52 Thermohaline oscillator undated
53 Tidal Wave Equation/St. Gurtz 1989
54 Trial Data Displays 1984
55 T.S. “NOV” Data [DISK # 39-40] 1969
56 2 x 2 Box Model [1990?]
57 2 3 Cubeb.bas undated
30 58 Unidentified Data undated
59 Values of Flux Ratio—Table 1992
60 Variation of Tidal Velocity in San Joaquin River undated
61 Volumeric Density Graphs undated
62 Vortex Studies—Notebook and 4 Disks [DISK # 41-42] 1990
37 63 XBT Traces (rolled together) undated
Notebooks, Lectures, and Exhibits 1934-1991 1.5 boxes (.75 lin. ft.)
Scope and Content Note
This series spans the years 1934 and 1946 to 1989. Materials include notebooks with notes and computations; lectures; syllabus and course information; plan for a WHOI Exhibit Center; and Bryden Thesis (Stommel on Thesis Committee). At the end of this series are publications inscribed to Henry Stommel and cover pages for journal articles and proposals weeded from the collection.
30 1 Notebook - Atlantis Cruise 36 1934
2 Notebook - Lectures by C.G. Rossby 1946
3 Notebook Pages 1946-1957
4 2-Gyres Notebook 1977
5 Notebook 1980
6 Notebook 1980
7 Notebook, The Vortex Model undated
8 Exam by A.B. Mullan, “Problem for Prof. Stommel” 1967, undated
31 9 Structure l Worthington Essay undated
10 “A Lantern Slide Lecture on My Visit to Scripps 1959” 1959
11 Lectures 1960
12 Lecture - Compton Generator 1990
13 Lamont Lecture Overlays (Is the TS Relation in the Ocean Partly Self-Regulating?) 1991
14 Syllabus and Course Info 1972
15 Course - Ocean Circulation 1973
16 “On the Determination of the Depth of No Meridional Motion” 1956
17 Slides of Cooper and Stommel 1967
18 Talk (with Nelson Hogg) 1989
19 Think Tank on Marine Facility undated
20 WHOI Exhibit Center undated
21 Bryden Thesis (H. Stommel on Thesis Committee) 1976
22-24 Publications Inscribed to Henry Stommel (3ff.) 1990, 1991
25 “On the Present Status of Our Physical Knowledge of the Deep Ocean” July 1955
32 26 Journal Articles and Proposals Weeded from the Collection undated
Book Compilation Materials 1945-1995 4 boxes (2 lin. ft.)
Scope and Content Note
This series spans the 1940’s to 1995 and consists of correspondence, manuscripts, talks, awards, and publications. The one folder of correspondence includes letters from Warren Wooster, John Swallow, Walter Munk, and Joseph Reid. Most of the series contains Stommel’s writings and work either used or considered for the 1995 publication of The Collected works of Henry Stommel.
The materials in this series were given to the Archives in 1996 by the Physical Oceanography Department.
32 1 Correspondence, 1992-1995 1992-1995
2 Collection originals: Vol.1; Autobiog.- AMS undated
3 Table of content…, Ch.1-2 undated
4 Ch. 3 undated
5 Ch. 4 undated
6 Vol.2: Bk. covers, chap. 1 undated
33 7 Vol. 2 undated
8 Vol. 2: Includes ch.2 undated
9 Vol. 2: Ch. 3 undated
10 Vol. 3: Chap.1 undated
11 Ch. 2 undated
12 Ch. 3 undated
13 Ch. 4 undated
14 Ch. 5 undated
34 15 Originals, not used 1945-1949
16 Originals, not used 1949
17 Originals, not used 1950-1959
18 Originals, not used 1960-1974
19 Originals, not used 1976-1984
20 Originals, not used 1985-1993
21-22 Reprints and Papers (2 ff.) [194?-1992]
35 23 Reprints and Papers (2 ff.) 1951-1988
24 Reprints and Papes (1 of 2ff.) 1962-1989
Oversized and Miscellaneous Material 1950-1989
37 Chain 78 (Data collected during voyage) (4 ff, 11 rolls, 1 notebook) 1978
3 Boxes of Disks (3-l/2”) [see Location of Disks index in Scope and Content Note] undated
D 1962-1989 (2 of 2ff.) 1962-1989
Notebook 1950-1984
Notebook 1955-1969
3 Boxes of Slides (108 slides of mostly waves) undated
1 roll of Data undated