Overview
- Describes the life and scientific contributions of Jule Charney
- Written by well-known expert authors in the field of meteorology
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Jule Charney’s Life and Recollections
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Jule Charney’s Influence
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Jule Charney’s Work
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About this book
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 fieldand show the impact Jule Charney had on the modern evolution of dynamic meteorology.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Atmosphere - A Challenge
Book Subtitle: The Science of Jule Gregory Charney
Editors: Richard S. Lindzen, Edward N. Lorenz, George W. Platzman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-944970-35-2
Publisher: American Meteorological Society Boston, MA
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: American Meteorological Society 1990
eBook ISBN: 978-1-944970-35-2Published: 30 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 321
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Historical Geography, Meteorology