Hendrik Lieuwe Tolman (born 16 January 1961, in
Leeuwarden
Leeuwarden (; fy, Ljouwert, longname=yes /; Town Frisian: ''Liwwadden''; Leeuwarder dialect: ''Leewarden'') is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 123,107 (2019). It is the provincial capital and seat of the ...
) is the original developer of the WAVEWATCH III (tm)
wind wave model
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.
He has been the branch chief for the
Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch in the US
National Weather Service
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of
NOAA
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since 2007, having joined the branch in 1992.
References
1961 births
Living people
Dutch civil engineers
American civil engineers
Dutch oceanographers
Delft University of Technology alumni
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration personnel
People from Leeuwarden
Dutch emigrants to the United States
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