S. George Philander

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S. George Philander
George Philander in October 2020.
Born	1942 Caledon, South Africa
Nationality	South African
Alma mater	University of Cape Town Harvard University
Scientific career
Fields	Geophysics
Institutions	Princeton University
Thesis	The Equatorial Dynamics of an Homogeneous Ocean (1970)

Samuel George Harker Philander (born 1942) is a climate scientist, known for his work on El Niño. He is the Knox Taylor Professor emeritus of Geosciences at Princeton University.

Among his published works written for a broad audience are Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard and Is the Temperature Rising?: The Uncertain Science of Global Warming.

Selected awards[]

Philander is a Member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences,^[1] and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[2] He received the 2017 Vetlesen Prize, with Mark Cane. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union,^[3] and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.^[4]

Books[]

• El Niño, La Niña and the Southern Oscillation. 289 pp., Academic Press, 1990.
• Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warming. 254 pp., Princeton University Press, 1998.
• Our Affair with El Niño. How we Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard. 275 pp., Princeton University Press, 2004.

Selected academic papers[]

• Gu D. and S. G. H. Philander, Interdecadal Climate Fluctuations that depend on Exchanges between the Tropics and Extratropics, Science, 275, 805–807, 1997.
• Philander, S. G. H., Instabilities of Zonal Equatorial Currents, 2, J. Geophys.Res., 83(C7), 3679–3682, 1978.
• Philander, S. G. H., Instabilities of Zonal Equatorial Currents, J. Geophys. Res., 81(21), 3721–3725, 1976.
• Philander, S. G. H., The Equatorial Undercurrent: Measurements and Theories, Rev. Geophys. and Space Physics, 11(3), 513–570, 1973.
• Philander, S. G. H., The Equatorial Dynamics of a Deep Homogeneous Ocean, Geophys. Fluid Dynamics Journal, 3, 105–123, 1972
• Philander, S. G. H., The Equatorial Dynamics of a Shallow Homogeneous Ocean, Geophys. Fluid Dynamics Journal, 2, 219–245, 1971.

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