Robert W. Burpee, a Meteorologist at the Environmental Research Lab- oratories' National Hurricane and Ex- news and nntes perimental Meteorology Laboratory in Miami, Ela., received the Silver Medal for his meritorious service as chief of the international group responsible for providing weather forecasting to GATE. He organized a multi-national and multi-lingual group into a re- sponsive team that provided accurate weather forecasts for operational decisions, particularly of convective activity over the intensive ship array. In addition, he provided quality service for decisions involving the safety AMS members win Commerce gold and silver medals of all platforms. Sixteen members of the American Meteorological Society Ray E. Jensen, Director of the Na- were among the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- tional Weather Service Environmental tration employees who received Department of Commerce Studies Service Center (ESSC) at Col- Gold and Silver Medals at the Department's honors award lege Station, Tex., was awarded the ceremony on 21 October 1975. The Gold and Silver Medals Silver Medal for the outstanding are, respectively, the highest and second highest honors managerial skill he demonstrated in conferred by the Department. launching the nation's first ESSC at Auburn University, Ala. The ESSC is Harry R. Glahn, Deputy Director of a new concept in conducting agricul- the Techniques Development Labora- tural/meteorological research and in tory in the National Weather Service's issuing useful weather information to Systems Development Office, Silver farmers more rapidly. Utilizing crop models and satellite Spring, Md., received the Gold Medal data, the Auburn Center provides agricultural weather ad- for his pioneering work in applying visories that reach farmers in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida computer models to weather forecasts. through university or federal farm specialists and through a His contributions include development teletypewriter circuit serving radio and television stations of a method for combining computer- and newspapers. The ESSC concept is serving as a pattern for model statistics with actual surface ob- similar weather services across the nation. A second ESSC has servations of weather to arrive at been established at Stoneville, Miss.; the College Station highly refined forecasts of the probability of precipitation, Center is the third. its type and amount, maximum and minimum temperatures, N. Arthur Pore, Chief of the Marine surface wind speed and direction, cloud amount, ceiling and Techniques Branch of the Techniques visibility, and the probability of thunderstorms. This method Development Laboratory in the NWS —known to forecasters as Model Output Statistics (MOS)—is Systems Development Office, received one of the major advances in meteorology in the past decade. the Silver Medal for his outstanding Dr. Glahn has also developed a computer program that contributions to the science of wea- produces automatically worded weather forecasts for issu- ther forecasting in the marine environ- ance by telephone recordings, radio, and newspapers. This ment. He developed a valuable new will be an important part of the NWS' continuing effort to computer program for producing fac- automate its field operations and services. Dr. Glahn also re- simile charts to show wave and swell ceived a 1975 NO A A $1000 Award for these contributions (see conditions on the high seas. Delivered BULLETIN, 56, P- 1292). twice daily, the charts are now an important part of NWS' James L. Rasmussen, now Director service to maritime interests. The sea-state forecasting of the U.S. GATE (Global Atmo- method is useful not only for predicting wave height on a spheric Research Program Atlantic day-to-day basis, but also for predicting the onset of danger- Tropical Experiment) Project Office in ous surf conditions in Hawaii. Pore has also developed a the World Weather Program Office in technique for forecasting storm surges that result from the Office of the Associate Administra- extratropical storms. tor for Environmental Monitoring and Walter Telesetsky, now Director of Prediction, in Rockville, Md., was the Program Integration Office of En- awarded the Gold Medal for his out- vironmental Monitoring and Predic- standing achievement in GATE. Chief tion in Rockville, Md., received the of the U.S. Science Group at the op- Silver Medal for his exceptional service erations control center in Dakar, Senegal, he played a domi- to the nation in planning, managing, nant role in the scientific, operational, logistic, and political and coordinating U.S. participation in decisions involved in the multi-nation program. The cita- GATE. No precedent existed for par- tion accompanying Dr. Rasmussen's Gold Medal says in part ticipation in an international experi- —"His record of sustained and distinguished accomplish- ment of such scope, and Mr. Teleset- ment reflects great credit on the Department of Commerce sky was cited for his initiative, innova- and the United States, and has earned respect nationally and tion, and skill in his role that was essential to the entire internationally." operation.

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Unauthenticated | Downloaded 10/03/21 09:40 PM UTC 73 Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1976 Donald R. Whitman, now Chief of Environmental Monitoring and Prediction in Rockville, Md., the Data Acquisition Division at the was one of four NOAA employees who received Silver Medals NWS Central Region Headquarters in in a Group Award for outstanding achievement in furthering Kansas City, was awarded the Silver man's understanding of the role of the tropics in the global Medal for his outstanding perform- atmospheric circulation. As Associate Director of the Inter- ance in his previous position as Assist- national Scientific and Management Group for GATE and ant Director for Meteorology and senior U.S. representative, Long played a dominant role in Management of the NWS Technical integrating the international plans for achieving the re- Training Center in Kansas City. He search objectives and obtaining the operations and logistics was cited for his administrative skill support required. During the field phase of the experiment in organizing and developing the in Dakar, Senegal, "his performance in supervising inter- Meteorology and Management Section for the five years national logistics and operations was outstanding and the since its establishment. He directed preparation of new and results exceeded all expectations." original courses for weather-office operation, weather radar, Among the 10 National Weather Service hydrologists who basic meteorology, the taking of weather observations, tech- received Silver Medals in a Group Award for their joint ac- niques of instruction, air-pollution meteorology, and writing complishments in improving river and flood forecasting meth- and broadcasting. He produced "a new excellence in technical ods in the U.S. were AMS members Robert J. C. Burnash of education" and a substantial increase in the technical compe- Sacramento, Calif.; Donald W. Kuehl, Portland, Ore.; John tence of field personnel." Special mention was given to his P. McCallister, Gaithersburg, Md.; Eugene L. Peck, Vienna, sensitivity to the needs of the handicapped and minorities. Va.; and Vail P. Schermerhorn, Portland, Ore. Kirby J. Hanson, Peter L. Grose, and James K. Sparkman Their efforts have placed the U.S. in the forefront, inter- received Silver Medals in a Group Award for outstanding nationally, in the application of computer-modeling tech- performance while serving as Chief Scientists aboard U.S. re- nology to the prediction of river conditions. During a decade search vessels during GATE. They designed and developed of effort, they produced a new computer model for the the complex observational systems required, molded the flow of water through river basins. The model will be fitted technical teams, and were personally involved in the collec- to nearly 3000 separate basins throughout the nation. NWS tion of data in fulfillment of GATE objectives. officials consider it "a major step forward from the opera- Dr. Hanson, now Director of the Geophysical Monitoring tional technology in use since the 1930s"—and say that it for Climatic Change Program in ERL's Air Resources Lab- will "encourage hydrologic forecasters to keep pace with re- oratory in Boulder, was with the Sea-Air Interaction Labora- quirements for increased food production and energy self- tory at ERL's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological sufficiency." Laboratories in Miami, Fla., at the time. He was responsible NWS hydrologists currently provide forecast service to 274 for development of the sophisticated meteorological observ- major powerplants and 178 large, multi-purpose reservoirs. ing system deployed on the four primary U.S. vessels. He Studies show that the new computer will reduce the average also led the pre-GATE international program of radiation error in estimates of mean daily discharge by 25%. Also, for instrumentation calibration and intercomparison, played a the first time, a hydrologic computer model can be adapted to central role in the development of the scientific plans for the predict water-quality factors. The success of the new model experiment, and contributed effectively to the incorpora- was demonstrated by precise predictions of severe flooding on tion of radiation studies in the GATE central program. the lower Mississippi River in 1973 and 1975. Dr. Grose, a Physical Scientist in the Applications Branch of the Operations Division in the Environmental Data Ser- Atmosphere Explorers launched vice's Center for Experiment Design and Data Analysis in The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has now Washington, D.C., developed and implemented a near real- launched the second and third satellites in a series of time data processing system using the shipboard computer three orbit-adjustable unmanned spacecraft to explore in to sample, scale, plot, and summarize all major parameters, detail an area of the Earth's outer atmosphere where im- and was able to identify and solve several problems, enhanc- portant energy transfer, atomic and molecular processes, ing the quality of data obtained from his and other ships. and chemical reactions occur that are critical to the heat He personally supervised the rebuilding at sea of a pitch-roll balance of the atmosphere. Atmosphere Explorer-D (Ex- buoy to prevent loss of data, and also served as lead analyst plorer-54 in orbit) and Atmosphere Explorer-E (Explorer- for designing, developing, and implementing the ship sys- 55 in orbit) were launched 6 October and 19 November 1975, tem data processing from all primary U.S. ships. His work respectively. has been instrumental in meeting the international schedule As in the AE-C or Explorer-51 mission (see BULLETIN, 55, for producing and exchanging validated data. p. 253), the spacecraft are linked through a ground computer Dr. Sparkman, now a Physical Scientist in the World Wea- with scientists in widely scattered parts of the country study- ther Program Office of NOAA's Office of Environmental ing the outer atmosphere. The area of the upper atmosphere Monitoring and Prediction, led a team that not only carried of primary interest is between 130 and 300 km. Explorer-51 out the demanding observing schedule, but also undertook a found that the atmosphere in this region, the thermosphere, number of special studies to improve the performance of is dynamic and unpredictable, with winds 10 times as severe some of the systems. He served as International Coordina- as those normally found on the Earth's surface. Winds have tor of a 12-ship intercomparison during the field phase, and been measured blowing from west to east at 80 m/s, while a prior to that was U.S. representative and chief scientist for few kilometers higher they come from the opposite direction the GATE sea trials in 1973. Dr. Sparkman was also the at the same speed. project coordinator for the shipboard tethered balloon Explorer-51 was the first unmanned spacecraft with an Boundary Layer Instrument System used in GATE. adjustable orbit able to dip in and out of the atmosphere Robert F. Long (Brig. Gen. USAF, Ret.) now Deputy Direc- to give scientists an extended look at the thermosphere. tor of the World Weather Program Office in the Office of AE-D, Explorer-54, was launched into a polar orbit with an

Unauthenticated | Downloaded 10/03/21 09:40 PM UTC Bulletin American Meteorological Society 77 apogee of about 3800 km and a perigee as low as 157 km, information on changes in the total ozone field. This in- and will sample regions over both poles that Explorer-51 cludes the vertical ozone distribution between 22 km and could not reach because of its 68° orbit. 50 km as well as changes in relation to composition, struc- Explorer-54 is carrying a photometer to measure nitric ture, and dynamics of the entire upper atmosphere. The oxide. These measurements, in conjunction with a direct spacecraft's initial apogee is about 3000 km. measurement of ozone by Explorer-55, will be a step forward Overall program direction is the responsibility of NASA's in understanding the interaction of upper atmosphere con- Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C., with Goddard stituents with solar ultraviolet light and the resulting impact Space Flight Center providing the spacecraft and rocket on Earth's ozone layer. Both spacecraft will also examine management. particle fluxes, airglow intensities, plasma densities, and temperatures and magnetic fields at the low altitudes where IAMAP secretary appointed energy dissipation occurs. These measurements will be used to assess the heat balance and energy conversion mechanism, Stanley Ruttenberg, of the National Center for Atmospheric as well as the flow of heat or energy from one hemisphere to Research, has been named secretary of the International As- the other. sociation of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (IAMAP). Explorer-55, launched into a near-equatorial orbit, is IAMAP is one of the international scientific associations that measuring the Earth's ozone layer between 20°N and 20°S make up the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics with a backscatter ultraviolet spectrometer (BUV). The Prin- (IUGG), which includes representatives of more than 70 cipal Investigator for BUV instrumentation is Dr. Donald nations. Heath of Goddard Space Flight Center. The spacecraft will As secretary of IAMAP, Ruttenberg is responsible for ad- measure changes in ozone distribution and provide new ministering the Association's budget, which utilizes funds information on the horizontal scale of the structure in the supplied by IUGG that are used mainly to support the activi- ozone fields at different altitudes in the stratosphere over ties of eight IAMAP commissions. Ruttenberg, who holds the the equator. It will also provide an opportunity to evaluate B.S. and M.S. in physics, has been involved in international the long-term accuracy of BUV instrumentation by com- activities for many years. His recent activities have in- paring its newly-calibrated equipment with the BUV instru- cluded an assignment to the Joint Planning Staff for GARP, ment carried on Nimbus-4, launched in 1970. Explorer-55 in Geneva, Switzerland, and service as secretary of a working will fill the gap between Nimbus-4 and Nimbus-G, scheduled group of the international Committee on Space Research for launch in 1978. (COSPAR). Explorer-55's low perigee, dipping into the atmosphere at IAMAP will hold its next assembly in Seattle in the times to an altitude of some 130 km, will return valuable summer of 1977.

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NWS to support distant space missions William S. Barney, who since 1973 has served as the Deputy Director of The National Weather Service Space Operations Support the GATE Project Office and U.S. Division has entered into a reimbursable agreement with Field Director for GATE, has been the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet named Director of the new office. In Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., under which the addition, he will serve as Acting Di- Washington Section of the Spaceflight Meteorology Group rector of the Office of Meteorological will provide weather support for missions to distant planets, and Hydrological Services, the position notably for the 1977 Mariner Jupiter-Saturn mission. It is ex- vacated by Gerald A. Petersen when pected that the project will continue for several years and he accepted a post at National Wea- will involve more than a half-man-year effort annually. ther Service Headquarters in Silver Meteorological guidance is needed because the optional Spring, Md. X-band mode of communication, which can handle about In his new position, Mr. Barney's activities will include four times more data in a given period than can the other coordination with senior officials of federal agencies, uni- available channels, is vulnerable to weather influences in versities, and scientific organizations in developing opera- the line of sight to the tracking stations. tional plans and for acquisition of resources for large-scale According to Kenneth M. Nagler, Chief of the Space Op- scientific data-gathering projects involving multiorganiza- erations Support Division, the SMG staff will be working on tional and/or international participation utilizing mobile the X-band degradation climatology and forecastability. It platforms. will also help the Jet Propulsion Laboratory staff develop a He will review operations plans for each project to insure model for assessing the best mode of data transmission de- that scientific requirements are translated into an overall pending on the prediction of pertinent weather factors. directive that delineates the required time-phased actions of each participating group, the logistics support arrangements, the provision for field headquarters and project direction, North American interstate weather the outfitting of ships and aircraft, and the survey, con- modification council struction, and installation of ground-based facilities. When required, he will serve as the manager or field director of The North American Interstate Weather Modification Coun- field projects. cil (NAIWMC) was established on 17 January 1975 when Mr. Barney has been appointed Chairman of the Inter- representatives of 15 U.S. states, 3 Canadian provinces, and departmental Board for Cooperation of NOAA with the Mexico met in Denver, Colo., to discuss the needs and in- Department of Defense. He is also the NOAA Staff point terests of their respective governments concerning weather of contact for NOAA Main Line Components in arranging modification activities. The purposes of NAIWMC as out- for the acquisition of materiel and services from other gov- lined in the adopted by-laws are: 1) to assist organizations ernment agencies, and provides NOAA Staff direction for the in the planning, design, implementation, coordination, and operation, maintenance, and safety of NOAA aircraft. assessment of weather modification operations and encourage Mr. Barney is a member of the American Meteorological interstate and international cooperative operational pro- Society. grams; 2) to assist organizations in weather modification research and development and provide a forum for the ex- change of experience, data, and information about weather modification; 3) to serve as a spokesman for the needs and Wind engineering association established views of members and develop information programs; 4) to A new international organization of engineers and scientists assist national, state, or provincial governments in the prepa- concerned with wind power and wind problems was estab- ration, review, and alteration of proposed or existing legis- lished in September 1975 at the Fourth International Con- lation affecting weather modification; and 5) to assist regula- ference on Wind Effects on Buildings and Structures held tory agencies in maintaining a high level of integrity and in London, England. Named the International Association professional competency in the weather modification field. of Wind Engineering (IAWE), the organization will attempt A Council meeting was scheduled to be held at the Hilton to coordinate on an international basis building code re- Inn Hotel in Kansas City on 15-16 January 1976. Dr. quirements concerning wind loading and establish liaison Conrad G. Keyes, Jr., a member of the AMS, was recently with other organizations working in similar fields. named Executive Secretary of the newly-formed Council. For One of the major functions of the association will be to more information about the NAIWMC, contact him at P.O. plan and organize future international conferences on wind Box 3 CE, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, N.M. engineering to be held every four years. While these sessions 88003. have previously focused on the effects of wind on buildings, subsequent conferences will also consider a broader range of investigations, such as the development of energy from wind, the role of wind in air pollution control, and the NOAA operations, logistics, emergency study of how wind affects agriculture, including crop pro- planning office tection and plant pollination. A new Operations, Logistics, and Emergency Planning Office Dr. Jack E. Cermak, professor of civil engineering at Colo- has been established in the Office of the Associate Adminis- rado State University and professor-in-charge of the CSU trator for Environmental Monitoring and Prediction at Fluid Mechanics and Wind Engineering Program, has been National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Head- appointed chairman of the board of directors of IAWE. As quarters in Rockville, Md. The office is responsible for chairman, Cermak, who also serves as chairman of the execu- selected operational and logistical planning of major field tive board of the national Wind Engineering Research Coun- activities and for emergency readiness planning. cil, will represent the IAWE internationally. Unauthenticated | Downloaded 10/03/21 09:40 PM UTC Bulletin American Meteorological Society 79 Currently divided into three regions—the Americas, West- D.C. The 5 November session considered the relationships of ern Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia, the IAWE is composed the study to earlier and other current efforts, the possibilities of about 1000 representatives from throughout the world. Its for expanding the study, the delineation of its scope, and three regional secretaries, from the United States, England, the definition of its products. Most of the session on the 6th and Australia, will deal with internal matters. was devoted to the early stages of scenario development. It Colorado State University, which has been instrumental was agreed that the food-producing ecosystems considered in the development of wind engineering as a discipline in in the study should include those producing spring wheat, the United States, has been selected as the site for the fifth winter wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. If possible, international conference, scheduled for June or July of 1979. pasture and rangelands will also be included. For weather One of the IAWE's first efforts in its work with other conditions, the years 1933-36, 1953-56, and 1960-63 were groups will be a cooperative venture with the United chosen as representing a wide range of fluctuations. Using Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization mathematical models already available, these past weather (UNESCO) on the development of a fund for the study of patterns will be imposed on present ecosystems to estimate natural disasters caused by wind. both direct and indirect effects on food production. At the final session, Dr. James Newman was nominated as Panel New freezeup forecasts for St. Lawrence seaway Chairman. Dr. Newman, a member of the AMS, is currently A new technique for predicting ice freezeups in the upper St. on sabbatical from Purdue and doing research at the U.S. Lawrence Seaway is being used operationally by the Na- Departmen# # # t of Agriculture library in Beltsville, Md. tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with the hope of saving time and money for shippers. Tested for two NOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories have launched years, the freezeup predictions are based on mathematical the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Pro- equations developed at NOAA Great Lakes Environmental gram (OCSEAP), a multi-million-dollar study for the Depart- Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich. The equations are ment of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management that seeks based on the current water temperature at the mouth of to determine the probable ecological impact of oil explora- the St. Lawrence at Kingston, and the predicted December tion and development activities on Alaska's Outer Continental flow rate and associated heat loss in the river's 160 km jour- Shelf. During the early years of the program, investigators ney from Kingston to Massena, N.Y. The National Weather will examine intensively life forms and physical environment, Service Forecast Office in Buffalo, under the direction of focusing on eight oil leasing areas spread among the Gulf James Smith, uses the data to issue predictions of the of Alaska, Bering Sea, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. They will freezeup on 1 and 15 October, November, and December. evaluate the roles that natural processes play in spreading Freezeup predictions two to three months in advance contaminants from petroleum development sites, how marine could provide shippers with the necessary lead time to sched- life will be affected, and what natural hazards will face ule vessels into and out of the Great Lakes until ice prevents oil development activities in this region. the continuation of normal navigation. Commercial shipping As part of the program, NOAA has awarded contracts to activity normally ceases three to four months each winter the University of Washington in Seattle to study currents, because of extensive ice cover on the inter-lake connecting the interaction of oil with sea ice, and planktonic life in the channels and the St. Lawrence River. Until now operators of Gulf of Alaska and the Bering and Beaufort Seas. Primary vessels using the seaway have been forced to assume that objectives of the university research are to determine arctic the system above Montreal would not be open after 15 water circulation patterns and how they would transport oil, December. Ocean vessels must vacate the seaway system seasonal distributions and environmental requirements for before it is closed or face the prospect of being locked in plankton, and possible interactions between ice and oil. for three and a half months. The University of Washington scientists plan to install According to Dr. Frank H. Quinn at the Environmental three sets of current meters in the Beaufort Sea, where ice Research Laboratories, inadequate attention has been given is a dominant feature and little is known about water circu- to annual and seasonal weather variations when establish- lation. The instruments will take measurements every 20 ing the closing date. Records show that freezeups vary by minutes for an eight-month period, recording current as much as three weeks from year to year. speed and direction, and water temperature. Each set of More than 50 countries presently use the St. Lawrence current meters will be placed about 100 m beneath the sea Seaway. With operating costs running between $3000 and surface to avoid drifting ice. $5000 per day for ocean-going vessels, more accurate predic- Studies of interaction between oil and sea ice, such as ab- tions of the exact closing date at Massena could save sorption and spreading of petroleum contaminants by ice, thousands of dollars daily. In addition, taking necessary will concentrate on the thick ice in the Beaufort Sea. Much ice control measures at the proper time could prevent of this work is already underway as part of the Arctic serious power losses and shoreline damage. Ice Joint Dynamics Experiment (AIDJEX). The present The prediction technique was developed as part of a five- contracts extend AIDJEX to include studies of the be- year federal study—the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway havior of near-shore ice where ice undergoes seasonal varia- Navigation Season Extension Demonstration Program—at tions. Instrumented NOAA buoys will be used to gather the request of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Cor- environmental data in these areas. poration, which operates the waterway for the Department The University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine of Transportation. Research has been awarded a two-year contract by ERL to NOAA scientists are also developing techniques for pre- study the effects of weather and climate on ice along the dicting the ice breakup date in the St. Lawrence each spring. Beaufort Sea coast. "Fast" or fixed ice could be a hazard to offshore petroleum facilities and operations. Ecology action notes Ice covers the sea completely during the winter, with fast The Food-Climate Study Panel of The Institute of Ecology ice extending from a few kilometers to as much as 50 km (TIE) held its first meeting 5-7 November in Washington, offshore, frozen to the bottom near shore. Yet little is known

Unauthenticated | Downloaded 10/03/21 09:40 PM UTC 80 Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1976 about shore-fast ice formation processes, stress changes, and year-to-year variations and how they are related to specific weather patterns. Ice freezeup and breakup dates for PREPRINT VOLUME the region are unpredictable. At Point Barrow, Alaska, a major port of the region, freezeup may occur anytime be- tween early September and mid-December. The annual ice FOURTH CONFERENCE breakup has occurred as early as mid-June and as late as August. ON The University of Colorado research team, in cooperation with the University of Alaska, plans to produce regional PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS maps of the fast-ice extent and characteristics for five off- shore areas of the Beaufort Sea. IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES By comparing meteorological data with ice information from satellites for the five regions, it is hoped that relation- ships between weather variables, atmospheric circulation pat- Nov. 18-21, 1975 Tallahassee, Fla. terns, and ice can be established. Dr. Rudolf J. Engelmann is the Director of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program.

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