Abstract: Although aircraft encounters with strong westerly winds during World War II provided the stimulus for postwar research on the jet stream, Wasaburo Ooishi observed these winds in the 1920s. Ooishi's work is reviewed in the ...

Abstract: The emigration of 11 young Japanese meteorologists to the United States following World War II is investigated. Their move is examined with the benefit of a historical backdrop that includes a study of the socioeconomic ...

Abstract: Joseph Smagorinsky (1924?2005) was a forceful and powerful figure in meteorology during the last half of the twentieth century. He served as director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) for nearly 30 yr ...

Abstract: Meteorologist Carl-Gustaf Rossby is examined as a mentor. In order to evaluate him, the mentor-protégé concept is discussed with the benefit of existing literature on the subject and key examples from the recent history ...

Abstract: te 1960s, well before the availability of computer power to produce ensemble weather forecasts, Edward Epstein (1931?2008) developed a stochastic?dynamic prediction (SDP) method for calculating the temporal evolution of ...

Abstract: LeRoy Meisinger was a U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist and aeronaut who worked vigorously to bring meteorology to the aid of aviation in the post-World War 1 period. He was killed at the age of 29 in a scientific ballooning ...

Abstract: Philip Thompson (1922?94) pioneered innovative approaches to weather analysis and prediction that blended determinism and probability. He generally posed problems in terms of simplified dynamics that were amenable to ...

Abstract: Sasaki's variational analysis method is used to describe the subsynoptic surface conditions accompanying severe local storms. Observations are extracted from the network of surface stations that routinely report every hour. ...

Abstract: The interaction between a squall line and its environment is examined by using the model of Ogura and Cho (1973). This model incorporates a continuous spectrum of cumulus clouds that are distinguished by their entrainment ...

Abstract: The generation of a probabilistic view of dynamical weather prediction is traced back to the early 1950s, to that point in time when deterministic short-range numerical weather prediction (NWP) achieved its earliest success. ...