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Ship voyages and fisheries along Norway’s stormy coast have always been important occupations for the inhabitants of this country; and weather has often been a matter of life or death to them. It is not surprising, then, that the geophysical sciences meteorology and physical oceanography have had a particularly strong position in Norway. But the study of motions in the atmosphere and the oceans lead directly to a number of hydrodynamical problems; and in fact, up to about 1960, most research in the field of theoretical hydrodynamics in Oslo was done by meteorologists and oceanographers.
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Eliassen, A. (1996). A Brief Historical Account of Hydrodynamic Research at the University of Oslo. In: Grue, J., Gjevik, B., Weber, J.E. (eds) Waves and Nonlinear Processes in Hydrodynamics. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0253-4_1
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