Salt fingering was first described mathematically by Professor Melvin Stern of Florida State University in 1960 and important field measurements of the process have been made by Raymond Schmitt of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Mike Gregg and Eric Kunze of the University of Washington, Seattle.
Salt fingering was initially mathematically described by Professor Melvin Stern of Florida State University in 1960, and significant field measurements of the process have been conducted by Raymond Schmitt from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Mike Gregg and Eric Kunze from the University of Washington, Seattle.