Numerical weather forecasting

Arrangement Arrangement is by record creator and material type. The collection is arranged into 11 series: Series 1: Division Director’s Office; Series 2: AAP Climate Section; Series 3: Ecosystem Dynamics and the Atmosphere Section (EDAS); Series 4: Thomas Bettge Files; Series 5: James Hack Files; Series 6: James McWilliams Files; Series 7: Stephen Schneider Files; Series 8: Thomas Wigley Files; Series 9: Publications; Series 10: Anemometer Records; Series 11: Data...

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Norman A. Phillips, 1989. Interviewed by Anthony Hollingsworth, Warren Washington, Joseph Tribbia, and Akira Kasahara. 4 sound cassettes (ca. 6 hrs.) : analog, mono + transcript (78 pgs.). AMS 39-42; two physical versions (one master, one copy). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project. Topics covered: family background and education; service as aviation cadet and in a Weather Service squadron in the Azores during World War II; education...

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with George W. Platzman, 1990. Interviewed by Norman Phillips. 4 sound cassettes (ca. 5 hrs, tapes 3 and 4 side B blank) : analog, mono + transcript (59 pgs.). AMS 59-62; two physical versions (one master, one copy). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project. Topics include: family background and early education; undergraduate and graduate work; work in quality-control statistics, and as both student and instructor in wartime meteorology...

Scope and Contents Oral history interview of Philip Thompson, 1987. Interviewed by Joseph Tribbia and Akira Kasahara. 3 sound cassettes (ca. 3 hrs.) : analog, mono. +transcript. AMS 25-27; 2 versions (1 master, 1 copy). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project. Topics include: early life and family; interest in science and education; time in the Air Force; Princeton project in Numerical Weather Prediction; other scientist working in the meteorological field around the 1940s; graduate...

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Philip Thompson, 1988. Interviewed by Earl Droessler. 1 sound cassette (ca. 1 hr.) : analog, mono + transcript (14 pgs.). AMS 48; two physical versions (one master, one copy). Access restriction: Written permission of the President of AMS required for access. Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project. Topics include: application of high-speed computing to meteorology; work on the Princeton project; numerical weather prediction; work in...