Reflections
Subtitle: a memoir
By: by David Atlas.
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Atlas, David.; Meteorologists -- United States -- Biography.; Radar meteorology.; Atmosphere -- Research.; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; ATMOSPHERES; RESEARCH
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1.A Memoir-Why? 1; title: Chapter 2.Early Y ears 3; title: Chapter 3.All Weather Flying Division, 1945-48 7; title: Chapter 4.Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories,; title: Geophysics Research Directorate-1948-66; title: Section 1.Background 13; title: Section 2.Angels and Clear-Air Turbulence 16; title: Section 3.Back to the Early Days 21; title: Section 4.Personal Reflections on Stewart Marshall; title: and Walter Hitschfeld25; title: Section 5.My Sabbatical in England-1959-60 26; title: Section 6.The Soviet Union 32; title: Chapter 5.The University of Chicago-1966-1972 41; title: Illustrations 53; title: Chapter 6.The National Center for Atmospheric Research-; title: 1972-1977; title: Section 1.Atmospheric Technology Division,; title: 1972-73 69; title: Section 2.National Hail Research Experiment,; title: 1974-75 72; title: Chapter 7.American Meteorological Society 81; title: Chapter 8.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Goddard; title: Laboratory for Atmospheric Sciences, 1977-8487; title: Chapter 9.The Wanderer, 1984-2000; title: Section 1.Jet Propulsion Laboratory103; title: Section 2.Tropical Rain Measuring Mission105; title: Chapter 10.The Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary; title: Conference on Radar Meteorology and the; title: Conference Book Radar in Meteorology 111; title: Chapter 11.Radar Detection of Low-Level Wind Shear113; title: Chapter 12.Some Thoughts on Science Management 117; title: Chapter 13.Retrospective 119; title: Epilogue 123; title: Acknowledgments 125; title: Appendix A: Acronyms 127; title: Appendix B: Biographical Sketch 129; title: Appendix C: Basic Radar Meteorology 131; title: References 137.