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HENRY G. BOOKER, School of Electrical Engineer- THOMAS F. MALONE, Research Department, The ing, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Travelers Insurance Companies, Hartford, JULE G. CHARNEY, Department of Meteorology, Connecticut Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cam- EDWARD TELLER, Lawrence Radiation Labora- bridge, Massachusetts tory, University of California, Livermore, Cali- HUGH L. DRYDEN, National Aeronautics and fornia Space Administration, Washington, D. C. FRED L. WHIPPLE, Smithsonian Astrophysical CARL ECKART, Scripps Institution of Oceanog- Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts raphy, Le Jolla, California JOHN R. SIEVERS (Executive Secretary), Na- MICHAEL FERENCE, JR., Scientific Laboratory, tional Academy of Sciences—National Re- Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan * search Council, Washington, D. C.

50 minutes in the eye, where dropsondes were ejected. Donna had a perfect eye at 18,000 ft for about 10 miles. I ABOUT OUR MEMBERS Mr. Culbertson was awarded an official Hurricane Hunt- ers card, presented to all persons who fly through the eye of a hurricane. According to the AWS OBSERVER, William M. A hi, Jr., retired as a Lt. Colonel in the Mr. Culbertson said of his first hurricane flight, "I was Air Force Reserve after twenty years of service. He simply terrified, but just kept grinding away." His films, has enrolled at Mississippi Southern College for com- pictures, and script were used on a half-hour special pletion of work toward a degree. program of the ABC network. Dr. Gerald L. Barger of the National Weather Records Center, Asheville, is on leave to attend the School of John C. Davies since discharge from the Air Force Public Administration, Harvard University. has been employed by the Weather Bureau at Kansas City. Stanley L. Barnes, instructor of meteorology, De- Air Force Commendation Medals for meritorious partment of Oceanography and Meteorology, A. and M. service in the periods indicated were recently awarded College of Texas, has accepted a position at the Uni- to: Col. Dale D. Desper, April 1959-Jan. 1960; Lt. Col. versity of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. Raymond B. Girardo, Feb. 1958-July 1960; Maj. Daniel Dr. John C. Bellamy, research meteorologist with Cook Research Laboratories, Chicago, has been appointed E. McPherson, Jr., July 1957-May 1960; Maj. Charles professor in the College of Engineering, University of F. Roberts, April-June 1960; Maj. John H. Taylor, Mar. Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. 1957-June 1960; Capt. Berry W. Rozve, Aug. 1959-June 1960; and CWO Matthew Toyli, June 1958-July 1960. Erivin R. Biel, professor of meteorology at Rutgers Arthur Engelman, formerly with the Missile Systems University, was Sigma Xi national lecturer at a number Division of Raytheon, is now associated with the Geo- of colleges and universities during October. Dr. Biel physics Corporation of America, Bedford, Massachusetts. discussed Bioclimatology and Comparative Studies on Dynamic Climatology. L. R. Everingham, formerly of Radiation, Inc., Or- lando, Florida, is now affiliated with the Aerolab De- Richard B. Blumenthal has accepted a position with velopment Company, Pasadena, California. Weather Modification Company of San Jose, California, On the advisory committee for the international sym- and is stationed at Grass Valley, Oregon. posium on Chemical Reactions in the Lower and Upper James T. Bradley graduated from City College of Atmosphere to be held in San Francisco next April are New York in June and is now employed by the Weather AMS members Martin Hertzberg, Lockheed Aircraft Bureau at O'Hare Field, Chicago. Corporation; C. E. Junge, Air Force Research Division; George F. Collins of Lockheed Nuclear Products, At- Joseph Kaplan, University of California, Los Angeles; lanta, transferred this fall to the Weather System Di- and James P. Lodge, Taft Sanitary Engineering Center. vision, Travelers Insurance Companies, Hartford. Dr. Kinsell L. Coulson, who was research meteorolo- Brig. General B. G. Holzman, USAF, has been ap- gist at Stanford Research Institute, recently became pointed commander of the Air Force Cambridge Re- affiliated with the Aeroscience Laboratory of the Gen- search Laboratories, Bedford, Massachusetts, on its eral Electric Company in Philadelphia. reorganization from the Cambridge Research Center. Warren Culbertson of the American Broadcasting Other AMS members who were official United States Company, Chicago, flew with the Air Weather Service delegates to international meetings in August were Wal- Mission Gull-4-Donna into the eye of the hurricane. ter B. Langbein, U. S. Geological Survey, and Dr. The flight lasted 12 hours, with a total of 2 hours and (Continued on page 700)

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Amu, Jacob E. Gellis, Samuel L. Rice, Michael L. Barrett, Curtis B. Guerin, Paul E. Richards, George L., II Bauer, Kenneth J. Hendrix, John E. Rothman, H. Steven Berens, Roger K. Hoilien, Thomas W. Sarapu, Allen C. Boyd, James R. Horton, Herbert T. Savage, Peter J. Byrne, Patrick J. Howard, William C. Sigda, Robert B. Chase, Preston M. Huckeby, Robert E. Swanson, Roger S. Christy, Harry D. Kiefner, David N. Sweeney, Raymond G. Cooley, Patrick J. Leimbeck, Robert E. Thiers, Bruce H. Cooper, Harvey J. LeLong, Arthur J. Voras, Francis P. Cuslee, William H. Lisle, Robert M. Wharfield, Ernest C., Jr. Dangler, William P. McMahon, Charles D. Whitson, James De Souza, Russell L. Parsons, Lawrence H. Williams, Betty Ann Durbin, Kenneth A. Peake, Jean Ann Yager, Gordon J. Gaffe, J. Ronald Pelton, Douglas J. Young, Dana C. Gardner, Ralph E. Reiser, Richard R.

(Continued from ABOUT OUR MEMBERS, page 680) Dr. Harner Selvidge, outgoing president of the Soar- ing Society of America, was re-elected director-at-large Walter H. Munk, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, of SSA for 1961. Dr. Selvidge is vice president of Dr. F. W. Reichelderfer, Chief of the U. S. Weather Meteorology Research, Inc., Altadena, California. Bureau; delegates to the 12th General Assembly of Dudley W. Smith, formerly AG1, U. S. Navy, has IUGG; and Dr. Peveril Meigs, Quartermaster Research returned to civilian life and Engineering Command, a delegate to the 10th Gen- as a teacher of mathe- eral Assembly of the International Geographical Union. matics and science in Charles A. Lesher recently retired as CWO in the Valley Falls, Kansas. Air Force after twenty years as a weatherman and is Arnold Wexler, chief now mathematics instructor at Central Senior High of the Mechanical In- School, Prince Georges County, Maryland. struments Section, Na- R. M. MacKenzie, who has completed an overseas tour tional Bureau of Stand- of duty with the Royal Canadian Air Force, has re- ards, presented a paper turned to the Meteorological Branch, Department of at the 11th Annual Test- Transport, and is stationed at Gimli, Manitoba. ing Conference, spon- Dr. George Ohring has recently joined the staff of the sored by the Technical Geophysics Corporation of America, Bedford, Massa- Association of the Pulp chusetts. Dr. Ohring was previously with the Geo- and Paper Industry in physics Research Directorate. September. Mr. Wex- Raymond L. Richardson is employed with the Weather ler's subject was Hurnid- Bureau at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arnold Wexler ity Standards.

RECENT ARTICLES, BOOKS, AND PAPERS BY AMS MEMBERS C. S. Cushman. Catalogue of predictors used in local objective forecast studies. AWS TR 105-19, AWS, /. M. Austin and A. L. Morris. Upper wind ex- Scott AFB, 111, 15 July 1960. trapolation from 500-mb data. NWRF 20-0660-034, F. W. Decker. The weather workbook and weather Navy Wea. Res. Fac., Norfolk, June 1960. map study. The Weather Workbook Co, Corvallis, B. R. Bean, J. D. Horn, and L. P. Riggs. Refraction Ore, 1959. of radio waves at low angles within various air masses. G. E. Dunn and B. I. Miller. Atlantic hurricanes. J. GEOPHYS. RES. 65, 4, 1183-1188, Apr. 1960. La. State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge,' 1960. M. Bossolasco (with A. Elena). On some charac- H. W. Ellsaesser. Wind variability. AWS TR 105-2, teristics of the Es-layer. PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE AWS Scott AFB, 111, 10 Mar. 1960. 1, 3, 205-212, Aug. 1959. A. Engelman (with F. F. Marmo). Artificial iono- L P. Crary. Status of United States scientific pro- spheres for communications. IRE TRANS, ON MILITARY ELECTRONICS MIL-4, 2-3, 270-284, April, July 1960. the Antarctic. IGY BULLETIN 39, 1-12, Sep. 1960% (Continued on page 707)

A V^BR i Unauthenticated | Downloaded 10/04/21 08:26 PM UTC VOL. 41, No. 12, • DECEMBER, 1960 707 briefly, even numerical weather prediction, analogues, difficult to locate errors. On p. 55, it is stated that air and satellites. cannot blow toward higher pressure, but such slips are The principal innovation of the text is the large ap- most uncommon. Quite another matter is the pedagogi- plied part, entitled "Weather, Climate, and Life." Of cal aspect. Will the book produce an integrated picture the three parts, the physical elements have 165 pp, re- in the mind of the student? Evidently, it is desirable to gional climate 80 pp, and the applied part 180 pp; this discuss all important aspects of a subject. But there is shows clearly the relative emphasis desired by the author. danger in producing a very heavy load of information, in In the last part, subjects treated include patterns of soils that the reader may become lost in the mass of detail. and vegetation, water resources, agriculture, industry in- This danger is most apparent in the regional part, where cluding transportation, housing, and the human body, even students with an excellent background in geography all in relation to climate. A chapter on climatic change may have difficulty in emerging with a solid picture of concludes the volume. As in the introductory part, the climate in any particular region or even of a climatic one has the impression that the author is widely read in regime. many fields and has given much attention to the con- With this necessary reservation on the success of the nection between them. He has furnished a broad offer- book as an educational venture, the volume is recom- ing of information in clear language which uses a mini- mended for serious consideration to instructors offering mum of words. The reviewer knows of no other text a terminal course in climatology. It should be added that in which so many subjects have been discussed. there is an excellent index, that the drawings are numer- The overall impression of the technical presentation, ous and well done, and that the manuscript has been therefore, is indeed favorable. Further, it has been carefully proofread.—Herbert Riehl.

(Continued from ABOUT OUR MEMBERS, page 700) H. Moses (with others). The effect of meteorological variables upon the vertical and temporal distributions G. R. Fahnestock. Logging slash flammability. Res. of atmospheric radon. J. GEOPHYS. RES. 65, 4, 1223-1238, Paper 58, Forest Service, Dept. Agri., Ogden, Utah, Apr. 1960. May 1960, 67 pp. W. G. Osmun. How much do we know about hurri- T. Fujita and H. A. Brown. Design of a three- canes? BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL AVIATION, 80-83, New dimensional meso-meteorological network. Dept. Meteor., York, Sep. 1960. Univ. Chicago, 4th Quar. Tech. Rep., 1 Jan. 1960 to 30 W. O. Roberts and H. Zirin. Recent progress in solar Apr. 1960, Sig. Corps Contr. DA-36-039 SC-78901, Dept. physics. J. GEOPHYS. RES. 65, 6, 1645-1659, June 1960. Army Proj. 3A99-07-001-04-01. A. Sadowski. Spiral cloud band associated with a /. J. George. Weather forecasting for aeronautics. tornado. SCIENCE 132, 3429, 736-737, Sep. 1960. Academic Press, New York, June 1960. B. Saltzman and A. Fleisher. The modes of release S.-K. Kao. Stationary flow in the planetary boundary of available potential energy in the atmosphere. J. GEO- layer with an inversion layer and a sea breeze. J. PHYS. RES. 65, 4, 1215-1222, Apr. 1960. GEOPHYS. RES. 65, 6, 1731-1736, June 1960. C. A. Samson (with others). Radio noise data for J. B. Knox. Procedures for estimating maximum the International Geophysical Year, July 1, 1957-Decem- possible precipitation. Bull. 88, Calif. Dept. Water Re- ber 31, 1958. Natl. Bu. Stand. (Boulder Labs.) Tech. sources, Livermore, Calif., 29 pp., 14 fig., May 1960. Note 18, 27 July 1959 (PB 151377). W. J. Kotsch. Weather control and national strategy. U. S. Naval Inst. Proc. 86, 7, 74-81, July 1960. I. A. Singer (with L. J. Tick). A study of the wind H. E. Landsberg. Do tropical storms play a role in profile in the lowest 400 feet of the atmosphere. Prog. the water balance of the Northern Hemisphere? J. GEO- Rep. 6, Jan. 16, 1960-May 15, 1960, for USARDL Contr. R-65-8-99812 SC-04-91, DA Proj. 3A99-07-ool-03, PHYS. RES. 65, 4, 1305-1307, Apr. 1960. H. E. Landsberg. Note on the recent climatic fluctua- Brookhaven Natl Lab., May 1960. tion in the United States. J. GEOPHYS. RES. 65, 5, 1519— H. Wexler. Meteorology. Science in Space, Chap. 1525, May 1960. Ill, The Earth, 14-22, Space Sci. Board, NAS-NRS, /. A. Lund. A method for estimating conditional prob- 1960. abilities. J. GEOPHYS. RES. 65, 6, 1723-1729, June 1960. H. Wexler. Seasonal and other temperature changes W. M. McMurray. IGY meteorological data on in the Antarctic atmosphere. QUAR. J. Royal Meteor. microcards. IGY Gen. Rep. 9, June 1960, 142 pp., IGY Soc. 85, 365, 196-208, July 1959. World Data Center A, Natl. Acad. Sci., Wash., D. C. H. Wobus and A. L. Morris. Pressure-height extrapo- A. F. Meyer. Effect of temperature on ground-water lations from aircraft data. NWRF 02-0660-033, Navy levels. J. GEOPHYS. RES. 65, 6, 1747-1752, June 1960. Wea. Res. Fac., Norfolk, June 1960.

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