Biography:Adrian Gill

Short description: Australian meteorologist

Adrian Edmund Gill
Born	(1937-02-22)22 February 1937
Died	19 April 1986 (1986-04-20) (aged 49)
Awards	Chree medal and prize (1985)
Scientific career
Fields	Meteorology and oceanography
Thesis	The Stability of Axisymmetric Fluid Flows (1963)
Doctoral advisor	George Batchelor

Adrian Edmund Gill FRS (22 February 1937 – 19 April 1986) was an Australian meteorologist and oceanographer best known for his textbook Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics. Gill was born in Melbourne Australia and worked at Cambridge, serving as Senior Research Fellow from 1963 to 1984. His father was Edmund Gill, geologist, palaeontologist and curator at the National Museum of Victoria.

Gill was chair of the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere program. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1986. His candidacy citation read: "Dr A. E. Gill is internationally recognised for his work in geophysical fluid dynamics and leads a small but highly productive team working on problems in dynamical oceanography and meteorology. He has made outstanding theoretical contributions to a wide range of topics, including the stability of pipe flow, thermal convection, circulation of the Southern Ocean, seasonal variability of the ocean, waves in rotating fluids, wind-induced upwelling, coastal currents and sea-level changes and coastally-trapped waves in the atmosphere, and he is particularly effective in the way he is able to interpret observations and guide the activities of observational workers".

Honours

• Individual Merit Senior Principal Scientific Officer of the Meteorological Office.
• Florida State University has a professorship endowned in his honor.
• The Royal Meteorological Society annually awards an "Adrian Gill Award" to a member of the Society who has made a significant contribution in [fields] that interface between atmospheric science and... oceanography, hydrology, geochemistry and numerical methodologies.

Selected publications

• Batchelor, G. K.; Gill, A. E. (1962). "Analysis of the stability of axisymmetric jets". Journal of Fluid Mechanics 14 (4): 529. doi:10.1017/S0022112062001421. Bibcode: 1962JFM....14..529B. 
• Gill, A. E. (1966). "The boundary-layer regime for convection in a rectangular cavity". Journal of Fluid Mechanics 26 (3): 515–536. doi:10.1017/S0022112066001368. Bibcode: 1966JFM....26..515G. 
• Longuet-Higgins, M. S.; Gill, A. E. (1967). "Resonant interactions between planetary waves". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 299 (1456): 120–144. doi:10.1098/rspa.1967.0126. Bibcode: 1967RSPSA.299..120L. 
• Baines, P. G.; Gill, A. E. (1969). "On thermohaline convection with linear gradients". Journal of Fluid Mechanics 37 (2): 289–306. doi:10.1017/S0022112069000553. Bibcode: 1969JFM....37..289B. 
• Gill, A. E.; Davey, A. (1969). "Instabilities of a buoyancy-driven system". Journal of Fluid Mechanics 35 (4): 775–798. doi:10.1017/S0022112069001431. Bibcode: 1969JFM....35..775G. 
• "A discussion on ocean currents and their dynamics - Ocean models". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences 270 (1206): 391–413. 1971. doi:10.1098/rsta.1971.0080. 
• Gill, A.E.; Niller, P.P. (1973). "The theory of the seasonal variability in the ocean". Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts 20 (2): 141–177. doi:10.1016/0011-7471(73)90049-1. Bibcode: 1973DSRA...20..141G. 
• Gill, A.E. (1973). "Circulation and bottom water production in the Weddell Sea". Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts 20 (2): 111–140. doi:10.1016/0011-7471(73)90048-X. Bibcode: 1973DSRA...20..111G. 
• Gill, A.E. (1974). "The stability of planetary waves on an infinite beta‐plane". Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 6 (1): 29–47. doi:10.1080/03091927409365786. Bibcode: 1974GApFD...6...29G. 
• Gill, A.E.; Clarke, A.J. (1974). "Wind-induced upwelling, coastal currents and sea-level changes". Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts 21 (5): 325–345. doi:10.1016/0011-7471(74)90038-2. Bibcode: 1974DSRA...21..325G. 
• Gill, A. E.; Schumann, E. H. (1974). "The Generation of Long Shelf Waves by the Wind". Journal of Physical Oceanography 4 (1): 83. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1974)004<0083:TGOLSW>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1520-0485. Bibcode: 1974JPO.....4...83G. 
• Anderson, David L.T.; Gill, A.E. (1975). "Spin-up of a stratified ocean, with applications to upwelling". Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts 22 (9): 583–596. doi:10.1016/0011-7471(75)90046-7. Bibcode: 1975DSRA...22..583A. 
• Wunsch, C.; Gill, A.E. (1976). "Observations of equatorially trapped waves in Pacific sea level variations". Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts 23 (5): 371–390. doi:10.1016/0011-7471(76)90835-4. Bibcode: 1976DSRA...23..371W. 
• Gill, A. E. (1979). "A simple model for showing effects of geometry on the ocean tides". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 367 (1731): 549–571. doi:10.1098/rspa.1979.0103. Bibcode: 1979RSPSA.367..549G. 
• Gill, A. E. (1980). "Some simple solutions for heat-induced tropical circulation". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 106 (449): 447–462. doi:10.1002/qj.49710644905. Bibcode: 1980QJRMS.106..447G. 
• Gill, A. E.; Rasmusson, E. M. (1983). "The 1982–83 climate anomaly in the equatorial Pacific". Nature 306 (5940): 229–234. doi:10.1038/306229a0. Bibcode: 1983Natur.306..229G.  1983
• Gill, A. E. (1984). "On the Behavior of Internal Waves in the Wakes of Storms". Journal of Physical Oceanography 14 (7): 1129. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1984)014<1129:OTBOIW>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1520-0485. Bibcode: 1984JPO....14.1129G.