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August 22, 2023<\/h4>\n

Thomas Rossby, Emeritus Professor of Oceanography at GSO, has devoted his career to studying ocean circulation, <\/span>much of it <\/span>focused on the Gulf Stream<\/a>. Now, he\u2019s coupling his love for technology and science with a skill he developed during his childhood in Sweden and as a guest investigator at the University of Stockholm since 1995: translation! <\/span><\/p>\n

Rossby has recently contributed <\/span>two translations<\/span><\/a>, one from Norwegian and the other from Swedish, to the GSO website and beyond: <\/span><\/p>\n

When the Gulf Stream was commandeered, 1910<\/b><\/h2>\n

This short fictional story depicting a new ice age over Sweden reflects widespread public awareness of the Gulf Stream\u2019s role in the European climate. Rossby translated this piece from the Swedish <\/span>original<\/span> by Erik \u2018Mac\u2019 Nyblom, a Swedish journalist and author. <\/span>Read the translation <\/span>here.<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my first time translating something like this,\u201d Rossby shared. \u201cI grew up bilingual, English at home, Swedish in school. Swedes can read Norwegian, but this text took more effort because the document is nearly 100 years old, making some of the language a bit dated with old nautical terms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Conrad Holmboe<\/em> goes out through ice edge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Conrad Holmboe<\/i><\/b>\u2019s drift in the Greenland Ice, 1923 <\/b><\/h2>\n

Translated from the Norwegian, this first-person account of motorboat <\/span>Conrad Holmboe<\/span><\/i>\u2019s drift in the Greenland ice describes an expedition that Rossby\u2019s father, meteorologist Carl-Gustaf Rossby, participated in and shows \u201cwhat a ship can take and what people can accomplish when they fight for their lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy father wouldn\u2019t talk about it. He only mentioned he was on this expedition once, when I <\/span>was 15<\/span> years old,\u201d Rossby said. <\/span>In 2018, a colleague of Rossby\u2019s in Sweden gave him a photocopy of the book chapter. \u201cThat opened up my eyes – I had no idea the breadth of this expedition that my father <\/span>had taken part in<\/span>. I read the book casually, but in 2022 it occurred to me that the 100 year anniversary might make this a story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the translation <\/span>here<\/span><\/a> or learn more from <\/span>The Weather Band<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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