Adrian Edmund Gill FRS^[1] (22 February 1937 – 19 April 1986) was an Australian meteorologist and oceanographer best known for his textbook Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics.^[2] Gill was born in Melbourne, Australia, and worked at Cambridge, serving as Senior Research Fellow from 1963 to 1984.^[3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5]
• 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.^[6]

Selected publications

• Batchelor, G. K.; Gill, A. E. (1962). "Analysis of the stability of axisymmetric jets". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 14 (4): 529. Bibcode:1962JFM....14..529B. doi:10.1017/S0022112062001421. S2CID 123452950.
• Gill, A. E. (1966). "The boundary-layer regime for convection in a rectangular cavity". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 26 (3): 515–536. Bibcode:1966JFM....26..515G. doi:10.1017/S0022112066001368. S2CID 121330359.
• 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. Bibcode:1967RSPSA.299..120L. doi:10.1098/rspa.1967.0126. S2CID 120179723.
• Baines, P. G.; Gill, A. E. (1969). "On thermohaline convection with linear gradients". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 37 (2): 289–306. Bibcode:1969JFM....37..289B. doi:10.1017/S0022112069000553. S2CID 120776161.
• Gill, A. E.; Davey, A. (1969). "Instabilities of a buoyancy-driven system". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 35 (4): 775–798. Bibcode:1969JFM....35..775G. doi:10.1017/S0022112069001431. S2CID 122414069.
• "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. S2CID 133730380.
• 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. Bibcode:1973DSRA...20..141G. doi:10.1016/0011-7471(73)90049-1.
• Gill, A.E. (1973). "Circulation and bottom water production in the Weddell Sea". Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. 20 (2): 111–140. Bibcode:1973DSRA...20..111G. doi:10.1016/0011-7471(73)90048-X.
• Gill, A.E. (1974). "The stability of planetary waves on an infinite beta‐plane". Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. 6 (1): 29–47. Bibcode:1974GApFD...6...29G. doi:10.1080/03091927409365786.
• 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. Bibcode:1974DSRA...21..325G. doi:10.1016/0011-7471(74)90038-2.
• Gill, A. E.; Schumann, E. H. (1974). "The Generation of Long Shelf Waves by the Wind". Journal of Physical Oceanography. 4 (1): 83. Bibcode:1974JPO.....4...83G. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1974)004<0083:TGOLSW>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1520-0485.
• 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. Bibcode:1975DSRA...22..583A. doi:10.1016/0011-7471(75)90046-7.
• 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. Bibcode:1976DSRA...23..371W. doi:10.1016/0011-7471(76)90835-4.
• 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. Bibcode:1979RSPSA.367..549G. doi:10.1098/rspa.1979.0103. S2CID 131071309.
• Gill, A. E. (1980). "Some simple solutions for heat-induced tropical circulation". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 106 (449): 447–462. Bibcode:1980QJRMS.106..447G. doi:10.1002/qj.49710644905.
• Gill, A. E.; Rasmusson, E. M. (1983). "The 1982–83 climate anomaly in the equatorial Pacific". Nature. 306 (5940): 229–234. Bibcode:1983Natur.306..229G. doi:10.1038/306229a0. S2CID 4356967. 1983
• Gill, A. E. (1984). "On the Behavior of Internal Waves in the Wakes of Storms". Journal of Physical Oceanography. 14 (7): 1129. Bibcode:1984JPO....14.1129G. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1984)014<1129:OTBOIW>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1520-0485.

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