Abstract: The California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) established a course of study in meteorology in 1933. It was intimately tied to the upsurge of activity in commercial and military aviation that occurred in the period ...

Abstract: Ira Sprague Bowen (1898?1973) was a prominent astrophysicist during the twentieth century. In his impressive oeuvre of work over the 50-year span (1920?70), there appears a lone contribution to the geophysical sciences on ...

Abstract: Out of the nearly 6000 U.S. military officers who were trained to be weather forecasters during World War II, there wore approximately 100 women. They were recruited into the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service ...

Abstract: In response to the needs of the ocean traders and military shipping during the nineteenth century, Matthew Maury (1806?73) and Wiadimir Köppen (1846?1940) worked in tandem to create wind charts for the World Ocean. In the ...

Abstract: Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898?1957) was chosen to head the first U.S. program in modem meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1928. The steps that led to this appointment are briefly reviewed as well ...

Abstract: A case of squall line generation in the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) network has been examined with the intention of capturing synoptic-scale influences. A telescopic analysis approach was used whereby observations ...

Abstract: data assimilation strategy based on feedback control has been developed for the geophysical sciences?a strategy that uses model output to control the behavior of the dynamical system. Whereas optimal tracking through ...

Abstract: A historical review of research on sea fog is presented. The period of interest is essentially the twentieth century, beginning with the celebrated work of G. I. Taylor in the aftermath of the Titanic tragedy. It has been ...

Abstract: The return of tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico is examined in the autumnal cool season. Results from the thermodynamic equilibrium model of Betts and Ridgway are used to calculate the equilibrium equivalent potential ...

Abstract: During February and March 1988, a limited field experiment was conducted over the Gulf of Mexico to gather data on two phenomena: air mass modification over the Loop Current, and return flow characteristics of modified ...