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Hutter, Kolumban was born on January 22, 1941 in Saint Gallen, Switzerland. Son of Johann Jakob and Agnes Paula (Gmür) Hutter.
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The last one or two decades have witnessed an increased interest in to pographic Rossby waves, both from a theoretical computational as well as an observational point of view. However, even though long periodic pro cesses were observed in lakes and ocean basins with considerable detail, it appears that interpretation in terms of physical models is not suffi ciently conclusive. The reasons for this lack in understanding may be sought both, in the insufficient spatial resolution or the brevity of the time series of the available data and the inadequacy of the theoretical understanding of long periodic oscillating processes in lakes and ocean bays. Advancement will emerge from intensified studies of both aspects, but it is equally our believe that the understanding of long per'iodic oscillations in lakes is presently likely to profit most from a theore tical-computational study of topographic Rossby waves in enclosed basins. With this tractate we aim to provide the reader with the basic concepts of wave motion in shallow waters at subinertial frequencies. Our ques tions throughout this monogra~h are essentially: How can the solutions to this topographic wave equation in a prescribed idealized domain be construced; what are the physical properties of these solutions; are their features identifiable by observations; how reliable are such in terpretations, etc.
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Hutter, Kolumban was born on January 22, 1941 in Saint Gallen, Switzerland. Son of Johann Jakob and Agnes Paula (Gmür) Hutter.
Diploma, Ing. Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1964. Master of Science, Cornell University, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1973.
Habilitation, University Vienna, Austria, 1976. Habilitation, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1983.
Registered profile engineer, Switzerland. Research scientist Laboratory Hydraulics Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Federal Institute Technology, Zurich, 1973-1975, senior research scientist, 1975-1978, head physical limnology group, 1978-1983, director research, 1983-1987. Professor mechanics Technology Institute, Darmstadt, Federal Republic Germany, 1987.
Postdoctoral research fellow Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1974.
Visiting professor Technical.U., Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1976, 78, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1979-1980, U. Glasgow, 1984, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1984, 85. Visiting scientist U. East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1984, Federal Institute Technology Zurich, 1988-1991, Lausanne,1995.
Company-author: Field Matter Interactions in Thermoelastic Solids, 1978, Topographic Waves on the f-Plane in Channel and Lakes, 1987. Recipient Max-Planck-Forschungs-Preis, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and Max Planck Society, 1994, Authorised Version Humbold Prize Foundation Polish Sciences, Poland, 1998.
Author: Theoretical Glaciology, 1983, Fluid-und Thermodynamik eine Einführung, 1995.
Author, editor: Lake Hydrodynamics, 1983. Company-editor Journal Glaciology, 1984-1997. Member editorial board Acta Mechanica, since 1982.
Editor-in-chief Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 1989.
Author/coauthor over 230 science publications.
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Member International Glaciological Society (vice president 1996-2001), International Society Limnology, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Gesellschaft Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Anna Barbara Faivre, September 4, 1940. Children: Bettina, Katja.