Henry Charnock

Henry Charnock CBE FRS[1] (25 December 1920 – 28 November 1997) was a British meteorologist.[2] He is well known for his work on surface roughness and wind stress over water surfaces. The now named "Charnock's relationship" describes the aerodynamic roughness length, , over a water surface by:[3]

where is the friction velocity and is the acceleration due to gravity (typically the Standard gravity). is Charnock's proportionality constant.

Charnock was President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) from 1971 to 1975.

References
  1. Cartwright, D. E. (1999). "Henry Charnock, C.B.E. 25 December 1920 -- 27 November 1997: Elected F.R.S. 1976". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 45: 35. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0004.
  2. "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68802. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Stull, R. B. (1988). "An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology". Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-94-009-3027-8.

Bibliography
  • 'CHARNOCK, Henry’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
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