The Atmosphere - A Challenge (PDF)
The Science of Jule Gregory Charney
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is a tribute to the scientific career and life of Jule G. Charney (1917-1981).
The centerpiece of this memorial volume is a transcription of a taped interview with Jule Charney shortly before his death in 1981. George W. Platzman who also conducted...
The centerpiece of this memorial volume is a transcription of a taped interview with Jule Charney shortly before his death in 1981. George W. Platzman who also conducted...
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This is a tribute to the scientific career and life of Jule G. Charney (1917-1981).
The centerpiece of this memorial volume is a transcription of a taped interview with Jule Charney shortly before his death in 1981. George W. Platzman who also conducted the interview, edited the transcript of the tapes to what is now chapter 2 in this book.
The remainder of this volume is devoted to essays by several highly respected experts in the field of meteorology. Some are dealing with Jule Charney's influence on his field, others with appreciations of specific phases of his work. The volume is completed by reprints of some of Jule Charney's own work.
For those who were fortunate enough to know Jule Charney personally, this volume will be a reminder of his presence. And the Editors hope for other this book will help to flesh out the persona of a name indelibly inscribed in the literature of his field and show the impact Jule Charney had on the modern evolution of dynamic meteorology.
Autoren-Porträt
Richard S. Lindzen met Charney in 1961 at Harvard, where he was then a graduate student. Charney frequently met with students at Harvard at various seminars and social occasions. In the spring quarter of 1967 Lindzen and Charney were together at UCLA, where they discussed problems in tropical meteorology. Lindzen is currently Professor Emeritus of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Science. He works at the Cato Institute, a think tank where he focuses on the interaction between science and policymakers. Edward. N. Lorenz met Charney in 1952 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at a turbulence conference. Between sessions they managed to talk about some aspects of the barotropic vorticity equation, and these discussions established a pattern that was to persist over the years. Dr. Lorenz was a staff member of M.I.T.'s meteorology department from 1948 to 1955, when he becamean assistant professor. He was promoted to professor in 1962 and served as head of the department from 1977 to 1981. He became an emeritus professor in 1987. Dr. Edward N. Lorenz died on April 16th, 2008 at the age of 90. As a pioneer of the chaos theory, he was best known for the notion of the 'butterfly effect' and the Lorenz attractor.
George W. Platzman met Charney in December 1946 or January 1947 at the University of Chicago, on returning to Chicago after a two-year absence, a few months before Charney departed for Oslo. In 1949-51 he was a part-time consultant to the Meteorology Group at the Institute for Advanced Study, and he participated with Charney and others in the ENIAC computations of 1950 and 1951. George W. Platzman, Professor Emeritus in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, died on August 2nd, 2008 at the age of 88. Since early in his career he helped formulate the first weather forecast by computer (on the ENIAC in 1950), he has contributed to the transformation of weather
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forecasting from qualitative guesswork to quantitative science. He will be remembered as a pioneer in the field of storm-surge forecasting and one of the founders of modern meteorology.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- 2018, 1st ed. 1990, 321 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Richard S Lindzen, Edward Lorenz, George W. Platzman
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-10: 1944970355
- ISBN-13: 9781944970352
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.2018
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