2022
- A Symposium in Honor of Professor Akio
Arakawa: Modeling Convection, Clouds and Climate Systems
- Title:
- Reflections on Arakawa's Views of the Atmospheric
General Circulation
- Authors:
- Wayne H. Schubert (Presenter) and Richard K. Taft
- Date and Location:
- 17-18 October 2022, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
- Presentation Slides:
- Useful Internet Links:
- Oral history interviews at the American Institute of
Physics website:
- Arakawa interviewed by Paul Edwards on 1997 Jul
17-18 at UCLA
- Link to first session (includes transcript of the
interview):
[ Link ]
- Link to second session (includes transcript of the
interview):
[ Link ]
- UCLA obituary:
[ Link ]
- 2010 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal announcement on EGU website:
[ Link ]
- Arakawa's webpage at the Meteorology Tree website:
[ Link ]
- Arakawa's Computation Device (part of The Discovery of
Global Warming website, which is part of the AIP's Center
for History of Physics website):
[ Link ]
- Arajawa's webpage at the Semantic Scholar website:
[ Link ]
- UCAR announcement about 2022 Arakawa Symposium:
[ Link ]
- UCLA website for the 2022 Arakawa Symposium:
[ Link ]
- Program for the 2007 Arakawa Symposium at the 87th AMS
Annual Meeting:
[ Link ]
2021
- 2021 Jule G. Charney Lecture
- Title:
- Historical Perspectives on Charney's Ideas about
Tropical Cyclogenesis and the Formation of the ITCZ
- Author and Presenter:
- Date and Location:
- 14 December 2021, at the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting,
(13-16 December 2021, New Orleans, LA)
- Presentation Slides:
- Useful References:
- Aspray, W., 1990: John von Neumann and the Origins of
Modern Computing. MIT Press, 376 pages.
- Charney, J., 1971: Tropical cyclogenesis and the
formation of the intertropical convergence zone.
Mathematical Problems of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,
W. H. Reid, Ed., Lectures in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 13,
American Mathematical Society, 355-368.
- Charney, J. G., and A. Eliassen, 1964: On the growth of
the hurricane depression. J. Atmos. Sci.,
21, 68-75.
[ DOI ]
- Charney, J. G, R. Fjørtoft, and J. von Neumann, 1950:
Numerical integration of the barotropic vorticity
equation. Tellus, 2, 237-254.
[ Online ]
Dyson, G., 2012: Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the
Digital Universe. Vintage Books, 401 pages.
- Eliassen, A., 1995: Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes
(1897-1975), A Biographical Memoir.
National Academy of Sciences, pp. 1-21.
[ Online PDF ]
- Goldstine, H., 1993: The Computer from Pascal to von
Neumann. Princeton University Press, 378 pages.
- Lindzen, R. S., E. N. Lorenz, and G. W. Platzman (Eds.),
1990: The Atmosphere - A Challenge: The Science of
Jule Gregory Charney. American Meteorological Society,
321 pages.
- Lynch, P., 2008: The ENIAC forecasts: A re-creation.
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, 45-55.
[ DOI ]
- Lynch, P., and O. Lynch, 2008: Forecasts by PHONIAC.
Weather, 63, 324-326.
[ DOI,
Online ]
- McCartney S. 1999: ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of
the World's First Computer. Berkley Books, New York,
262 pages.
- Nebeker, F., 1995: Calculating the Weather: Meteorology
in the 20th Century. Elsevier Science, 255 pages.
- Phillips, N. A., 1982: Jule Charney's influence on
meteorology. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,
63, 492-498.
[ DOI ]
- Phillips, N. A., 1995: Jule Gregory Charney (1917-1981),
A Biographical Memoir. National Academy of Sciences,
pp. 83-113.
[ Online PDF ]
- Platzman, G. W., 1979: The ENIAC computations of 1950 -
Gateway to numerical weather prediction. Bull.
Amer. Meteor. Soc., 60, 302-312.
[ DOI ]
2017
- 2017 Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture
- Potential Vorticity Aspects of Tropical Dynamics by W. H. Schubert
- Delivered on 28 June 2017, at a joint session of the American
Meteorological Society's 21st Conference on Atmospheric and
Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and 19th Conference on Middle Atmosphere,
(26-30 June 2017, Portland, OR)
- PowerPoint presentations:
- Original (as presented on
28 June 2017)
[ PPTX ]
- Updated (CSU ATS seminar on
10 Nov 2017)
[ PPTX ]
- More detailed write-up:
- Final version (dated 24 Jan 2018)
- Published in non-refereed
arXiv.org scholarly archive
[ Web ,
PDF ]
- Excellent sources on the life and work of Bernhard Haurwitz:
- His own series of four short articles entitled
"Meteorology in the 20th Century -- A Participant's View,"
published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological
Society (1985).
- Part 1 (Mar 1985)
[ DOI ]
- Part 2 (Apr 1985)
[ DOI ]
- Part 3 (May 1985)
[ DOI ]
- Part 4 (Jun 1985)
[ DOI ]
- The extensive transcribed interview entitled
"Conversations with Bernhard Haurwitz," conducted by
master interviewer George Platzman (1985).
[ DOI ]
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir written
by his longtime colleague Julius London (1996).
[ Online PDF ]
- Bernhard's habilitation written at Leipzig in 1931 (in German).
[ Internet Archive ]
