Box 14
Container
Contains 49 Results:
The propagation and stability of compression waves in long lines of rush-hour traffic, February 7, 1949
File — Box: 14, Folder: 77
Identifier: Folder 77
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These papers document the career of Philip Duncan Thompson (1922-1994), whose research focused on the large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere, numerical weather prediction, and the statistical theory of hydrodynamic turbulence. The materials cover his career as a regular officer in the United States Air Force in meteorology beginning in World War II, continuing at the Institute for Advanced Study's Electronic Computer Project, the Air Force Cambridge Research Labs, the Joint Numerical Weather...
Dates:
February 7, 1949
The propagation of surface disturbances through a shallow current, May 24, 1950
File — Box: 14, Folder: 78
Identifier: Folder 78
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These papers document the career of Philip Duncan Thompson (1922-1994), whose research focused on the large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere, numerical weather prediction, and the statistical theory of hydrodynamic turbulence. The materials cover his career as a regular officer in the United States Air Force in meteorology beginning in World War II, continuing at the Institute for Advanced Study's Electronic Computer Project, the Air Force Cambridge Research Labs, the Joint Numerical Weather...
Dates:
May 24, 1950
Proposed plan of Air Force sponsored research in meteorology and closely allied sciences, January 10, 1949
File — Box: 14, Folder: 79
Identifier: Folder 79
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These papers document the career of Philip Duncan Thompson (1922-1994), whose research focused on the large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere, numerical weather prediction, and the statistical theory of hydrodynamic turbulence. The materials cover his career as a regular officer in the United States Air Force in meteorology beginning in World War II, continuing at the Institute for Advanced Study's Electronic Computer Project, the Air Force Cambridge Research Labs, the Joint Numerical Weather...
Dates:
January 10, 1949
A proposed system of global wind observation, October 18, 1968
File — Box: 14, Folder: 80
Identifier: Folder 80
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These papers document the career of Philip Duncan Thompson (1922-1994), whose research focused on the large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere, numerical weather prediction, and the statistical theory of hydrodynamic turbulence. The materials cover his career as a regular officer in the United States Air Force in meteorology beginning in World War II, continuing at the Institute for Advanced Study's Electronic Computer Project, the Air Force Cambridge Research Labs, the Joint Numerical Weather...
Dates:
October 18, 1968
Quasi-barotropy revisited: A Lagrangian method of short-range prediction with variable resolution [draft], November 1980
File — Box: 14, Folder: 81
Identifier: Folder 81
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These papers document the career of Philip Duncan Thompson (1922-1994), whose research focused on the large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere, numerical weather prediction, and the statistical theory of hydrodynamic turbulence. The materials cover his career as a regular officer in the United States Air Force in meteorology beginning in World War II, continuing at the Institute for Advanced Study's Electronic Computer Project, the Air Force Cambridge Research Labs, the Joint Numerical Weather...
Dates:
November 1980
Technical memorandum No. 1. Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit. Reduction of truncation errors in the computation of Geostrophic Advection and Other Jacobians, January 9, 1955
File — Box: 14, Folder: 82
Identifier: Folder 82
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These papers document the career of Philip Duncan Thompson (1922-1994), whose research focused on the large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere, numerical weather prediction, and the statistical theory of hydrodynamic turbulence. The materials cover his career as a regular officer in the United States Air Force in meteorology beginning in World War II, continuing at the Institute for Advanced Study's Electronic Computer Project, the Air Force Cambridge Research Labs, the Joint Numerical Weather...
Dates:
January 9, 1955
Technical memorandum No. 2. Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit. Reduction of truncation errors in the computation of geostropic vorticity, the laplacian operator and its inverse, February 8, 1955
File — Box: 14, Folder: 83
Identifier: Folder 83
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These papers document the career of Philip Duncan Thompson (1922-1994), whose research focused on the large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere, numerical weather prediction, and the statistical theory of hydrodynamic turbulence. The materials cover his career as a regular officer in the United States Air Force in meteorology beginning in World War II, continuing at the Institute for Advanced Study's Electronic Computer Project, the Air Force Cambridge Research Labs, the Joint Numerical Weather...
Dates:
February 8, 1955
Relation between the large-scale and small-scale motions and, specifically, the role of convection in the evolution of large-scale motions, undated
File — Box: 14, Folder: 84
Identifier: Folder 84
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These papers document the career of Philip Duncan Thompson (1922-1994), whose research focused on the large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere, numerical weather prediction, and the statistical theory of hydrodynamic turbulence. The materials cover his career as a regular officer in the United States Air Force in meteorology beginning in World War II, continuing at the Institute for Advanced Study's Electronic Computer Project, the Air Force Cambridge Research Labs, the Joint Numerical Weather...
Dates:
undated
On the relation between the large-scale wind field and topographically induced small- and meso-scale motions [JAS paper], January 1975
File — Box: 14, Folder: 85
Identifier: Folder 85
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These papers document the career of Philip Duncan Thompson (1922-1994), whose research focused on the large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere, numerical weather prediction, and the statistical theory of hydrodynamic turbulence. The materials cover his career as a regular officer in the United States Air Force in meteorology beginning in World War II, continuing at the Institute for Advanced Study's Electronic Computer Project, the Air Force Cambridge Research Labs, the Joint Numerical Weather...
Dates:
January 1975