Douglas Lilly Files, 1964 - 1969
Scope and Contents
The Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences (LAS) Records document LAS lab-level and program-level reporting and planning, as well as the administrative and research activities of a selection of scientists and their programs. These include J. Doyne Sartor, Edward Zipser, and Douglas Lilly. This collection also contains many time-lapse cloud films created by the Cloud Physics program, as well as anemometer records documenting wind conditions at several Boulder-area sites in the late 1960s. Also present is one box of microfilms from the 1968 Barbados Experiment and BOMEX.
Dates
- Creation: 1964 - 1969
Creator
- From the Collection: Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences (LAS) (Organization)
- From the Collection: Lilly, Douglas K. (Person)
- From the Collection: Sartor, J. Doyne (Person)
- From the Collection: Zipser, Edward (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Access to this collection is open.
Biographical / Historical
Douglas Lilly joined NCAR’s Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences (LAS) in 1964. His main research interests were in the field of atmospheric dynamics, and he was the head of the Turbulent Interactions program within LAS. He served as a member of the U.S. Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP). In 1968 and 1970, he was co-director of the Colorado Lee Wave Experiment. Following the reorganization of NCAR in 1973, Lilly was a scientist with the Small-Scale Analysis and Prediction Project (SSAPP) in NCAR's Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction division (AAP).
Full Extent
From the Collection: 25 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Archives Repository