We received the sad news that Peter Killworth passed away yesterday (January 28th) after a courageous battle against Motor Neurone Disease. Peter was a world leader in ocean modeling and he recently received the Henry Stommel Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society for his contributions to ocean modeling and theoretical oceanography.
http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/
Peter was the founder and editor in chief of the Ocean Modelling Journal. We have all gotten his e-mails a few seconds after our reviews were due. I met Peter many years ago when I was a post-doc. He was very kind and willing to have a long discussion about ocean models. We will surely miss him.
Hernan