Eliassen, Arnt, 1989-10-11

Oral history interview with Arnt Eliassen, 1989. Interviewed by Joseph Tribbia and Philip Thompson. 2 sound cassettes (ca. 3 hrs.) : analog, mono + transcript (6 pgs., incomplete). AMS 43-44; two physical versions (one master, one copy). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project. Tribbia and Thompson begin with an introduction and Thompson provides a brief history of numerical weather prediction and how he knew Eliassen. Thompson then starts by asking Eliassen about his interest in numerical prediction, Jule Charney and Vilhelm Bjerknes. Eliassen responds and comments on the people who influenced him in the field and their scientific works. Eliassen then discusses his initial exposure to meteorology at the University of Oslo and how his interest developed. From there, Eliassen talks about his occupation as a weather forecaster during WWII and then comments on his quasi-geostrophic system equations.