Research Interests Climate dynamics Stochastic processes Ocean waves Satellite remote sensing Integrated assessment studies Unified field theory Awards January 1963 Carl Christiansen Commemorative Award April 1964 James B. Macelwane Award of the American Geophysical Union November 1970 Academic Award for Physics from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen January 1971 Sverdrup Medal of the American Meteorological Union December 1981 Belfotop-Eurosense Award of the Remote Sensing Society April 1990 Robertson Memorial Lecture Award of the US National Academy of Sciences September 1990 Förderpreis für die Europäische Wissenschaft of the Körber-Stiftung,Hamburg June 1993 Nansen Polar Bear Award, Bergen, Norway