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Ernest Harry Vestine
Ernest Harry Vestine
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His Ph.D. thesis, done under Professor Sydney Chapman, dealt with the electric current-systems responsible for geomagnetic field variations during magnetic storms.
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He never appeared perturbed by ordinary misfortunes and, like his wife, was always interesting, courteous, and affable. At the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism he made numerous outstanding, comprehensive contributions to the understanding of the earth's magnetic fielcI, its secular, cliurnal, storm-time, and other variations and related phenomena in the Earth's interior and in the auora and the ionosphere.
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him in this exacting task were so devoted to him because of his humane and considerate appreciation of the involved details and reliability required that all contributed their diligent, enthusiastic and vigorous cooperation. Thus, in 1947 the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism published the resulting two volumes, described by Professor Chapman as "two great collections of modern geomagnetic data, including brief but cogent analyses ant!
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The aim rather has been that of providing a condensed readable account highlighting features of importance and Interest. by This book continues a descriptive study of geomagnetism begun with Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 578, which was principally concerned with the description of the Earth's main magnetic field and its secular change.
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enhances the effective description of geomagnetic phenomena of our environment. The books emerge therefore as a kind of picture supplement to the standard treatise Ge~magnet~sm; the writer hopes that his teacher, Professor Chapman, senior author of that treatise, will not object to such suggestion, provided he be not held at fault for any mistakes we may have made.
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He also showed that surface fluid motions of the earth's core that can closely approximate secular change also show features compatible with four of the generator models that might account for the geomagnetic field but that these comparisons clid not indicate a preferred choice among these moclels. Such tests of models for secular change are presently of much interest, since they provide some basis for reliable estimation of the time scale for reversals of the earth's dipole field.
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in 1971 as lAGA Bulletin No. 28 of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy World Magnetic Survey Board.
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Dr. Vestine's involvement with the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics included terms as chairman of the Committee on Magnetic Secular Variation Stations, chairman of the Committee on World Magnetic Survey and Magnetic Charts, chairman of Commission Il.
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persistent effort, without deflection by irrelevant activities, toward! his laudable goal.
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Fleming Award by the American Geophysical Union of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1967 Moon Crater named Crater Vestine by the International Astronomical Union World Magnetic Survey Summary Volume of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ernest Harry Vestine, 1971
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In: Cinquieme Rapport de la Commission Pour ['etude des Relations Entre les Phenomenes Solaires et Terrestres, pp.
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Cooper. Geomagnetic secular change during past epochs.
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The variation with sunspot cycle of the annual means of geomagnetism. In: Scheme Rapport de la Commission Pour l'etu~ des Relations Entre les Phenomenes Solaires et Terrestres, pp.
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Committee on magnetic secular variation stations. Trans.
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Note on conjugate points of geomagnetic field lines for some selected auroral and whistler stations of the IGY.
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World Magnetic Survey (introductory remarks)
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Analysis of surface magnetic fields by integrals.
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The World Magnetic Survey and the earth's interior.
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The westward drift and geomagnetic secular change. The Rand Corporation Report P-3667, September 1967.
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