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Lorenz, Edward N. Oral history interview with Edward N. Lorenz, 2000 November 8.

Title: Oral history interview with Edward N. Lorenz, 2000 November 8.

Topics include: childhood and education; his military experience with meteorology; continued with meteorology instead of returning to mathematics after the war; numerical weather prediction and resistence to it; influence of Victor Starr; Jule Charney and Norman Phillips; resistence to modeling as a technique for exploring meteorological theory; shift to emphasis to modeling in graduate research; climate change; funding by the U.S. Air Force; interest in long range forecasting; shifts in climate as random events; Lorenz's role on American Meteorological Society Committee tasked with evaluating methods of Irving Krick; importance of Rossby's Stockholm Institute to meteorology; international nature of meteorology; visit to Russia; women who trained as meteorologists at the University of Chicago during WWII; current intermediate sized modeling project; involvement with history of meteorology.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 2 cassettes.Transcript: 34 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80523745 View

George F. Ellis Papers, 1929-1970

Title: George F. Ellis Papers 1929-1970

This collection contains correspondence and personal papers of George F. Ellis,manager of the Bell Ranch from 1947-1970, general and subject correspondence files(1944-1945) of former manager Albert K. Mitchell, and records from the Bell Ranch, 1929-1970.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (7.1 cu. ft.)

http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmu1mss694bc.xml View

Krick, Irving. Papers, 1921-1996.

Title: Papers, 1921-1996.

Collection consists of original meteorological and climatological data (including weather maps and charts) collected by Irving P. Krick and his associates in various states of the U.S., Alberta, Canada, and France. In addition, there are numerous contracts, correspondence, and weather reports issued to U.S. and foreign clients, including correspondence with and regarding NASA. Correspondence with and information regarding prospective clients is also included, along with personal correspondence, research articles by Krick and his colleagues, newspaper clippings, various court transcripts, generator information, daily summaries, and other miscellany.

ArchivalResource: 116 boxes (58.0 linear ft.)4 oversize flat boxes.3 oversize long boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71334085 View

Houston, W. S. (Willard Sam), 1923-. Oral history interview with Captain Willard Sam Houston, 2000.

Title: Oral history interview with Captain Willard Sam Houston, 2000.

Topics include: Houston's youth and early education; interest in science; joining the Navy in 1941 and his training in military weather assessment; his selection for advanced meteorlogy training at California Institute of Technology and working toward his M. S. in meteorology at the Naval Postgraduate School; assignment to the Office of Naval Research; research with rockets with nose cameras for taking pictures of atmosphere; Project HUGO; assignment to International Institute of Meteorology, Stockholm; assignment to the Office of Chief of Naval Operations; introduction of computers and numerical weather products; support of anti-submarine warfare; takes over as Commander, Naval Weather Service; Navy politics; his retirement; his work in Iran to bring the Iranian Meteorological Organization up to date; providing bathythermograph equipment to fishing fleet; Naval Environmental Data Network; Oceanographic modeling; radiological fallout forecasts; relationship with National Weather Service; Air Force Air Weather Service; Army support; Irving Krick; wave and surf forecasting; cooperative program with Scripps.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 2 cassettes.Transcript: 31 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81802984 View

Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-. Response to History of Geophysics Survey 1988.

Title: Response to History of Geophysics Survey 1988.

File includes an autobiographical sketch entitled My Years in Geophysics, which discusses Elasseer's contributions to studies of the earth's internal magnetic field; his studies with Max Born; his work at the California Institute of Technology with Robert Millikan and Irving Krick (in meteorology); World War II work with the Army Signal Corps as a civilian meteorologist; his professorships at the University of Utah and Princeton University and his final move to the University of Maryland as a research professor. File also includes biographical statistics from the questionnaire and correspondence with Spencer Weart, Director of AIP Center for History of Physics. Recipients were asked to send copies of their curriculum vitae and a list of publications as part one of the survey and were then asked to discuss their entry into science in general and geophysics specifically as a career; how their scientific achievements came about and major efforts they were involved in which did not achieve the hoped for results; changes from one discipline to another; funding sources; the role of other disciplines in their own research; their work as educators; and their involvement in geophysics related institutions.

ArchivalResource: 16 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80710094 View