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were presented at a ceremony at the Graduate School of Public Administration, . ABOUT OUR MEMBERS William C. Davis, formerly with the Research Proj- ects Laboratory, Army Ballistic Missile Agency, has transferred to the Signal Office, U. S. Army Ordnance Norman S. Benes has returned from his tour of duty Missile Command, as physical scientist in the R&D with the IGY at Cape Hallett, Antarctica, and is cur- Staff Assistance Division. rently assigned to the Weather Bureau Airport Station, Majors Anthony J. Gimelli and Clarence O. Seaman Phoenix, Arizona. were among a group of Air Force personnel who were Walter A. Bohan, senior engineer of Cook Research presented with MATS Flying Safety awards in April by Laboratories, in April gave a talk to high school students Colonel Roy W. Nelson, Jr., commander of the 2d in Chicago using source material furnished by the AMS. Weather Wing. Minimum prerequisites for the award The papers given at the AMS National Meeting in are one year's service in MATS, 1000 accident-free fly- Chicago in March by Horace R. Byers and Thomas F. ing hours in MATS, and exemplary duty performance. Malone were reported in SCIENCE NEWS LETTER of 4 Five of the seven speakers on the program The IGY April. Dr. Byers described a new way, devised in col- Reports to American Youth, sponsored by the Frontiers laboration with Dr. Herbert Riehl, to compute the high- of Science Foundation of Oklahoma, Inc., and the Na- est expected flow in rivers and streams on the basis of tional Academy of Sciences, were AMS members. Speak- wind speed and direction up to 10,000 ft over the water- ing to some six thousand secondary school students in shed area. Dr. Malone discussed the use of a probability Oklahoma City in April were: Dr. Laurence M. Gould, figure in deciding when hurricane warnings should be president of Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota; issued. Dr. Joseph Kaplan, professor of physics, University of The Weather Bureau's Eighth Advanced Study Group, California, Los Angeles; Dr. Roger R. Revelle, director, which began work in February, was increased by four Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California; members this year. AMS members included in the group Dr. Walter O. Roberts, director, High Altitude Observa- are A. V. Carlin, training officer, and V. J. Oliver, in- tory, Boulder, Colorado; and Dr. Harry Wexler, chief structor; Glen L. Bowie, Central Office; Kenneth R. scientist IGY Antarctic Program, Washington, D. C. Clark, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Gordon E. Dunn, U. S. Weather Bureau length-of-service awards were Miami, Florida; Richard A. Garrett, Topeka, Kansas; announced in March as follows : 35-year—Frank C. Hood, Thomas E. Jermin, Great Falls, Montana; Alan H. Jones, Asheville, North Carolina, and Rheinhart C. Schmidt, Central Office; Lawrence R. Mahar, Hartford, Connecti- Central Office; 30-year—Arvy A. Lothman, Fresno, Cali- cut; Joseph L. Paulhus, Central Office; and Roger G. fornia, and Jack C. Thompson, Central Office. Plaster, Jacksonville, Florida. Eric E. Jenkins of Ottawa, Canada, recently joined the Several AMS members are serving on special commit- firm of Cuthbert Scott and Company. tees of the American Association for the Advancement Four AMS members were on the program of the joint of Science: Dr. Jule G. Charney of the meeting of the Western Snow Conference and Colorado Institute of Technology on Cooperation among Scientists; River Water Forecast Commitee held at Reno, Nevada, Kenneth C. Spengler, executive secretary of the AMS, on in April. They were: William A. Lang, Southern Cali- Council Agenda and Resolutions; Dr. Roger R. Revelle, fornia Edison Company, Los Angeles; Eugene L. Peck, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Henry M. Stom- Weather Bureau, Salt Lake City; Vail Schermerhorn, mel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, on Liter- River Forecast Center, Weather Bureau, Portland; and national Oceano graphic Congress, Committee on ar- Clement J. Todd, Research, Inc., Pasadena. rangements. Three AMS members were on the Steering Committee Albert P. Crary, physicist of the Air Force Cambridge of the National Conference on Air Pollution held in Research Center and recently appointed chief scientist Washington last November. Dr. Thomas F. Malone of of the Antarctic Research Program, re- The Travelers Insurance Companies, Hartford, Connecti- ceived another honor on 8 April when he was named one cut, was the AMS representative; Joshua Z. Holland of of the Civil Servants of the Year—1958, Greater Boston the Atomic Energy Commission represented the Inter- Area. This was the first year of these awards, which (Continued on page 339)

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7. Thornthwaite, C. W., and J. R. Mather, 1955. The Tennessee water balance. Publications in Climatology, Drexel 1. Bluff City 1424 36 27 82 16 Inst, of Tech. Lab. of Clim., 8, No. 1, 104 pp. 2. Bristol WB* 1519 36 29 82 24 8. Palmer, W. C, and A. V. Havens, 1958: A graphical 3. Charleston 709 35 17 84 46 technique for determining evapotranspiration by 4. Chattanooga WB* 670 35 02 85 12 the Thornthwaite method. Mon. Wea. Rev., 86, 6. Copperhill 1624 35 01 84 23 123-128. 7. Dandridge 1040 36 01 83 25 8. Elizabethton 1512 36 21 82 14 9. Elkmont 2555 35 39 83 34 APPENDIX I 10. Embreeville 1590 36 11 82 28 Erwin 1683 36 10 82 Identification of locations 11. 25 12. Etowah 850 35 20 84 32 13. Gatlinburg 2SW 1400 35 43 83 31 Elev. Lat. Long. 14. Greeneville Exp. Sta. 1320 36 04 82 50 North Carolina (ft) N W 15. Johnson City Vet. Hosp. 1730 36 19 82 23 16. Kingsport 3SE 1284 36 31 82 30 1. Altapass 2740 35 53 82 01 18. Knoxville WB* 950 35 49 83 59 2. Andrews 1800 35 12 83 49 19. Loudon 816 35 44 84 21 3. Asheville WB* 2203 35 36 82 32 20. McGhee 850 35 40 84 10 5. Banner Elk 3750 36 09 52 81 21. New Bethel 900 35 19 84 33 6. Boone 3332 36 13 81 43 22. Newport 1280 35 58 83 12 8. Brevard 2230 35 14 82 44 23. Parksville 730 35 06 84 39 9. Bryson City 1860 35 25 83 27 24. Rogersville 1150 36 22 83 03 10. Canton 1SW 2662 35 32 82 51 25. Tellico Plains 940 35 22 84 18 12. Crossnore 3430 36 01 81 56 13. Cullowee 2100 35 19 83 11 * WB indicates Weather Bureau First Order Station. 14. Elkin 880 36 15 80 51 15. Enka 2059 35 33 82 39 16. Franklin P. H. 2000 35 13 83 22 APPENDIX II 19. Hendersonville 2153 35 20 82 28 Identification of locations, Fig. 7 20. Highlands 2S 3350 35 01 83 12 21. Hot Springs 1332 35 54 82 49 23. Jefferson 2900 36 25 81 29 North Carolina 26. Lenoir 1294 35 55 81 32 Base Base 28. Marion 1425 35 41 82 01 station* station* 30. Montreat 2600 35 39 82 19 elev. (ft) elev. (ft) 31. Morgantown 1135 35 45 81 41 32. Mt. Airy 1048 36 30 80 36 1. Altapass 2230 8. Globe 1625 33. Mt. Mitchell 6684 35 46 82 16 2. Asheville 2445 9. Gorge 1400 34. Murphy 1614 35 08 84 00 3. Blantyre 2090 10. Hendersonville 2200 36. North Wilkesboro 973 36 10 81 09 4. Blowing Rock 3130 11. Highlands 3350 37. Parker IE 3950 36 23 81 42 5. Bryson 1800 12. Mount Airy 1340 40. Rock House 3100 35 00 83 06 6. Cane River 2650 13. Transon 2970 14. Try on 41. Rosman 2150 35 09 82 49 7. Ellijay 2240 950 42. Settle 700 36 01 80 46 15. Wilkesboro 1240 43. Statesville 2W 950 35 47 80 56 47. Try on 1075 35 13 82 14 Latitude and longitude not provided in source publica- 49. Waterville 1416 35 46 83 06 tion (2). 50. Waynesville 2756 35 29 82 58 * Lowest of series.

(Continued from ABOUT OUR MEMBERS, page 347) Committee for Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, National Science Foundation. departmental Committee on Community Air Pollution; Dr. A. C. Wiin-Nielsen, Danish , joined and A. B. Pettit of W. R. Grace and Company, New the staff of the Air Weather Service scientific detach- York, represented the Manufacturing Chemists' Associa- ment in Suitland, Maryland, early this year. Before tak- tion. Some others active in air-pollution work are Dr. ing this post, Dr. Wiin-Nielsen was assistant professor Harry Wexler, Weather Bureau representative on the of meteorology at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Interdepartmental Committee, and Benjamin Linsky, member of the National Advisory Committee on Com- RECENT ARTICLES, BOOKS, AND PAPERS BY AMS MEMBERS munity Air Pollution. L. J. Battan, Influence of the environment on the initia- Dr. Sverre Petterssen, professor of meteorology, Uni- tion of precipitation in tropical cumuli over the ocean. versity of Chicago, and AMS president, has been invited TELLUS, 10, 4, 466, Nov. 1958. to serve a two-year term as a member of the Divisional (Continued on page 339)

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Fourth Half Day The Santa Barbara Project. Robin R. Reynolds, Prin- cipal Hydraulic Engineer, Department of Water Re- OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE sources, Sacramento, Calif. Chairman: Prof. Horace R. Byers, Chairman Department of Meteorology Seedability of Large-Scale Storm Systems. W. Ferguson University of Chicago Hall, Office of Meteorological Research, U. S. Weather Chicago, 111. Bureau, Washington, D. C. A Weather Modification Program for the Future. How- ard T. Orville, Capt., USN (Ret.), Former Chairman Notice: Changes may occur in the program which could of the President's Advisory Committee on Weather not be reflected at the time of publication. The Con- Control, and Vice President, Beckman & Whitley, ference schedule wrill include educational trips in the Inc., San Carlos, Calif. Denver area.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Attention is also called to the availability to schools and colleges of a vast amount of U. S. Government sur- plus property under the Donation Program. This pro- Air Pollution Papers gram is operative in all forty-nine states and two terri- The Proceedings of the National Conference on Air tories, and is generally handled by the state departments Pollution, held at Washington, D. C., 18-20 November of education, the state purchasing agents, or some other 1958, have now been published by the Public Health state agency. Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The surplus property includes scientific equipment According to the preface, the volume is based on the (electronic component parts, etc.) and is allocated to the formal presentations made to the plenary and group ses- states and territories on the basis of proportion of popu- sions plus a stenographic transcript of the discussion lation. For example, the Commonwealth of Massachu- meetings. The Proceedings has been edited only to the setts has some six-and-half million dollars worth of extent that repetitions and formalities have been elimi- equipment for distribution. nated and is believed to contain all the essential material, including the discussion of controversial issues on which All equipment is free except for transportation charges. no agreement was reached. The distributing agencies are, for the most part, obliged This 526-page volume of Proceedings is available to deal with the administrative heads of the schools, col- through the Superintendent of Documents, Government leges, and other eligible non-profit institutions such as Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. The price is $1.75. hospitals, clinics, and civil defense agencies.

(Continued from ABOUT OUR MEMBERS, page 359) F. A. Huff and J. C. Neill, Frequency relations for storm rainfall in Illinois. Bull. 46, 111. State Water L. V. Berkner, Government sponsorship of scientific Survey, Urbana, 1959. research, SCIENCE, 129, 3352, 817, 27 Mar. 1959. IV. W. Kellogg, IGY rockets and : a report W. R. Chalker, Air pollution: extent to which controls on the Moscow meetings, August 1958. PLANETARY AND have been utilized by industry (1)—chemicals. Proc. SPACE SCIENCE, 1, 1, 71, Pergamon Press, 1959. Natl. Conf. Air Poll., Pub. Health Ser., pub. 654, GPO, I. H. Kornblueh, The first congress of the International Wash., 1959. Society of Bioclimatology and Biometeorology (ISBB). B. N. Charles, On some limitations of upper wind AMER. J. PHYS. MED., 38, 1, Feb. 1959. records. J. GEOPHYS. RES., 64, 3, 343-346, Mar. 1959. /. P. Lodge, Are monitoring programs adequate ? M. Ewing and W. L. Donn, A theory of ice ages II. Proc. Natl. Conf. Air Poll., Pub. Health Ser., pub. 654, SCIENCE, 127, 3307, 1159, 16 May 1958. GPO, Wash., 1959. W. C. L. Heme on, Air pollution: what needs to be N. J. Macdonald and D. D. Woodbridge, Relation of done in the future (1)—application of present knowledge. geomagnetic disturbances to circulation changes at 30,000- Proc. Natl. Conf. Air Poll., Pub. Health Ser., pub. 654, foot level. SCIENCE, 129, 3349, 638, 6 Mar. 1959. GPO, Wash., 1959. D. E. Martin, An investigation of systematic errors E. W. Hewson, Effects of topographic and meteoro- in the barotropic forecasts. TELLUS, 10, 4, 451, Nov. 1958. logical conditions on distribution of air pollutants. Proc. D. P. Mclntyre, The Canadian 3-front, 3-jet-stream Natl. Conf. Air Poll., Pub. Health Ser., pub. 654, GPO, model. GEOPHYS., 6: 3-4, 309-324, Helsinki, 1958. Wash., 1959. B. Vonnegut, C. B. Moore, A. T. Botka, Preliminary H. G. Houghton, Cloud physics. SCIENCE, 129, 3345, 307, 6 Feb. 1959. (Continued on page 339)

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Air Pollution, Cloud Physics and Weather Modification California as official forecaster at many meets in southern —Fowler Duckworth, Wilbur Carlson, Mark Schroeder, California and was United States forecaster at the George Holzworth international glider meet in Poland in 1958. Nominations•—Russell Ulrich, Max Mull, Lyle Rasey Mr. Aldrich outlined the weather service needs of Radio and Television—Melvin Hull, Arthur Pirsko, R. C. glider pilots and discussed in detail the weather types Nichols favorable for different soaring requirements. He de- Professional Ethics and Standards—Corday Counts, scribed thermal activity and its most advantageous use Francis Parsons, Sidney M. Serebreny in soaring, and explained methods of determining times Special Winter Sports—John Lanning, George Lunn, of thermal beginnings and its intensity. He also gave H. Root a very interesting account of the Polish meet and showed Special Program Committee for 8th Weather Radar Con- colored slides taken there and at other places during the ference—Myron Ligda, Ronald Collis, W. C. Mont- trip. The talk was well received and provoked a long gomery session of interested questions. Education and Community Service—Father Richard Spohn, Arnold True, George Van Vliet (a new com- Twin Cities Branch mittee to deal with student projects, Boy Scouts, science fairs, etc.) Dr. Arthur D. Belmont is filling the office of president of the branch since Major Lewis L Howes' transfer to Omaha-Offutt Branch Washington. Dr. Belmont appointed Dr. Homer T. Mantis to succeed him as vice president for the balance Frank Lewis of the Electronic Computer Branch, Air of the term. Weather Service, Suitland, and chairman of the D. C. Recommendations of the committee on changes in the Branch, spoke to the Omaha-Offutt group in April on branch constitution were presented by Gilbert Voelker. the latest advances in numerical prediction. The rest of the meeting was given over to hearing prog- Oregon Branch ress reports by the various committee chairmen for the National Conference on Stratospheric Meteorology to be The April meeting was held on the Oregon State Col- held in the Twin Cities in September 1959. lege campus at Corvallis. The program consisted of demonstrations of weather radar, communications facili- Utah Branch ties including radio facsimile, and the products of OSC research. There were also short demonstrations by mem- The featured speaker at the April meeting was Lester bers of the Meteorology Section and Department of P. Mallory of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who talked on Oceanography of OSC and of the Oregon Forest Re- Activities of the Weather Bureau Research Station Dur- search Center. The program concluded with a dinner at ing the Recent Nevada Atomic Tests. The Weather the Memorial Union Building. Bureau Research Station was established to investigate meteorological conditions in connection with nuclear San Diego Branch tests. Mr. Mallory described the techniques developed The speaker for the April meeting was John Aldrich, to improve wind and weather forecasts for large-scale supervising forecaster at the Los Angeles Weather Bu- nuclear operations and explained isogon and isotach reau. Mr. Aldrich is well known to glider pilots in analysis.

(Continued from ABOUT OUR MEMBERS, page 365) T. H. Simmonds, A digest of objective methods for forecasting strong surface winds. AWS Tech. Rep. 105- results of an experiment to determine initial precedence 149, Apr. 1959. of organized electrification and precipitation in thunder- G. E. Stout, Radar for rainfall measurements and storm storms. J. GEOPHYS. RES., 64, 3, 347-357, Mar. 1959. tracking. J. HYDRAUL. DIV., Proc. Amer. Soc. Eng., Jan. N. A. Phillips, Geostrophic errors in predicting the 1959. Appalachian storm of November 1950. GEOPHYS., 6: 3-4, 389-404, Helsinki, 1958. Teweles, Structure and circulation of the atmosphere. F. O. Rossmann, Some further remarks on water- IGY BULL., 21, Mar. 1959. spouts. WEATHER, XIV, 3, 104, Mar. 1959. H. E. Newell, Jr., and /. W. Townsend, Jr., IGY con- S. M. Serebreny, E. J. Wiegman, and R. G. Hadfield, ference in Moscow. SCIENCE, 129, 3341, 79, 9 Jan. 1959. A study of jet stream conditions in the northern hemi- D. D. Woodbridge, N. J. Macdonald, and T. W. Pohrte, sphere during fall. Tech. Rep. 8, Meteor. Dept., Pacific- An apparent relationship between geomagnetic disturb- Alaska Div, PAA; NWRF 20-1258-021, Cont. No. ances and changes in atmospheric circulation at 300 mb. N189 (188) -39691A, San Francisco, Dec. 1958. J. GEOPHYS. RES., 64, 331-341, Mar. 1959.

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