Abraham H. Oort

{{Short description|American climatologist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Abraham H. Oort

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1934}}

| birth_place = Leiden, Netherlands

| nationality = Dutch

| fields = Climatology

| workplaces = Princeton University

| alma_mater = Utrecht University

}}

Abraham Hans Oort (born 1934 in Leiden, Netherlands) is a Dutch-born American climatologist.

Oort is the son of the Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort. He moved to the United States in 1961. Since 1971, Oort was professor at Princeton University, where from 1977 until his retirement in 1996 he worked at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA. Oort is best known for his textbook, Physics of Climate, written in conjunction with José P. Peixoto.{{cite book |first1=José P. |last1=Peixoto |first2=Abraham H. |last2=Oort |title=The Physics of Climate |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3tjKa0YzFRMC |year=1992 |publisher=Springer-Verlag |isbn=978-0-88318-712-8 |edition=3rd}}