Mahlman, Jerry D., 11-2005, 11-2006

Oral history interview with Jerry D. Mahlman, 2005-2006. Interviewed by Robert Chervin. 5 sound cassettes (ca. 7 hrs.) : analog, mono + transcript (91 pgs.). AMS 196-200; two physical versions (one master, one copy). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project. Topics include: youth in Nebraska; parents and family; school academics, sports, and music; early influences; first job; undergraduate years at Chadron State College (now University); racial issues in the late 1950s, early 1960s, and treatment of minorities; graduate work at Colorado State University under Herbert Riehl, Elmar Reiter; meeting Sydney Chapman, Phil Thompson, and Joe Smagorinsky, and influence of Simpson's 1962 paper on new approaches to mathematical modeling; teaching position at the Naval Postgraduate School, 1967-70; invitation from Smagorinsky to join GFDL to model dynamics and chemistry of the stratosphere; comments about Manabe and Smagorinsky and early years modeling at GFDL; discussion about model problems; ‚"Sky Hi" stratospheric model; Climate Impacts Assessment Program (CIAP).