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My life as a physical oceanographer is outlined at the time of retirement from Kyushu University, in the hope that a trivial experience of mine may give a bit of encouragement or stimulation to young ...students and researchers as future scientists. For these 40 years, I have been engaged in the research into a wide variety of subjects in physical oceanography: mixing of stratified fluids, double diffusive convection, nonlinear stochastic wind-waves, air-sea interaction, Rossby waves/modes and their completeness theorem, Kuroshio meander, mesoscale eddies of the ocean, thermohaline deep ocean circulation, climate variability, spontaneous generation of organized structure in geophysical fluids, and so on. I have been interested in and fascinated by each subject. I have enjoyed fully the study of the sea, though such scattered concern of mine has prevented me from accumulated achievements in a particular research field. Such a variety of research areas, however, has often provided me with surprise at and joy in the fact that similar mechanism or mathematics plays a key role in seemingly quite different fields of physical oceanography. Surveying my life as a physical oceanographer, I feel that my concern has been on the mechanism or mathematics of the sea, rather than the reality of the sea itself. To conclude, I have been happy to be a physical oceanographer. I have had and will have never failing joy of thinking not only about the ocean dynamics.show more
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