International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) (Geophysics and Oceanography): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

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International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) (Geophysics and Oceanography): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82628720

Interviews were conducted with members of the project's collaboration using a structured question set covering all stages of in the collaborative research process: the formation of the collaboration and its personnel; the organizational structure; the formation of the experiment teams; the drafting of the proposal; funding for U.S. groups by the National Science Foundation or other U.S. funding agencies; use of subcontractors; development of software for data collection and analysis; the collaboration's decision-making style; role of the Principal Investigators, science management offices, consortia headquarters, advisory groups, and graduates students; impact of internationalism; patterns of communications; records creation, use, distribution, and retention; also, comments on the interviewee's home institution and trends in graduate education in geophysics and oceanography. Interviews (listed by institutional member of the collaboration and by name of individual) were conducted with: Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, CRNS, France: Genevieve Seze; Colorado State University: Garrett Campbell, Eric Smith, Thomas Vonder Haar; Ecole Polytechnique - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS, France: Michael Desbois; Environment Canada, University of British Columbia, Canada: Gorden McBean; GKSS Institute for Physics, Geesthacht, Germany: Erhardt Raschke; Goddard Institute for Space Studies: William Rossow; NASA: Robert Shiffer; National Center for Atmospheric Research: Francis Bretherton, Roy Jenne; NOAA: George Ohring; University of Kiel, Germany: Eberhard Ruprecht; World Meteological Organization: Bo Doos, Garth Paltridge. Other institutions involved the collaboration included: Canadian Climate Center, Meteorological Satellite Center (Japan), Centre de Meteorologie Spatiale (France), University of Colorado, Universität zu Köln, Germany; NASA Langley Research Center (Virginia), National Severe Storm Center; and the University of Wisconsin.

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