Box 17
Container
Contains 76 Results:
Air Force orders, 1953
File — Box: 17, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
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:
1953
Air Force order, 1961
File — Box: 17, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
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:
1961
Retirement order, 1962
File — Box: 17, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
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:
1962
Report of activities of Office of Naval Research (ONR) Meteorological Project at The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), 1947-1948
File — Box: 17, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
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:
1947-1948
Survey [history] of the electronic computer project at the institute for advanced study (IAS) Princeton, New Jersey. Detachment 72nd Army Air Forces Base Unit (AAFBU) special projects unit, March 6 1947
File — Box: 17, Folder: 12
Identifier: Folder 12
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:
March 6 1947
Bauer Project (Navy), 1959
File — Box: 17, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
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:
1959
Institute for mathematics and mechanics report, 1950
File — Box: 17, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
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:
1950
Joint numerical weather prediction unit technical memorandum No.1: Reduction of truncation errors in the computation of geostrophic advection and other jacobians, January 9 1955
File — Box: 17, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
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
Joint numerical weather prediction unit technical memorandum No. 2: Reduction of truncation errors in the computation of geostrophic vorticity, the laplacian operator and its inverse, February 8 1955
File — Box: 17, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
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
Joint numerical weather prediction unit reports, 1955-1956
File — Box: 17, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
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:
1955-1956