Richard A. Anthes Papers

Richard A. Anthes, President Emeritus of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), is a highly regarded atmospheric scientist, author, educator, and administrator. He studied meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he obtained his bachelor’s, masters, and doctoral degrees. In 1971 Dr. Anthes started teaching and conducting research at The Pennsylvania State University, where he attained a full professorship in 1978. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) welcomed Dr. Anthes in 1981 when he became the director of NCAR's Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction Division (AAP). In 1986, Dr. Anthes became the director of NCAR, and he was selected to become the president of UCAR in 1988. When he stepped down from the UCAR presidency in January 2012, he was the longest serving UCAR president since the organization was established in 1960. Dr. Anthes’ scientific expertise includes hurricanes and other tropical cyclones, numerical weather forecasting, satellite observations, and technology transfer to less developed countries.