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[i|#_ednref1] “Fred Sanders, pioneer storm forecaster, dies” MIT Tech Talk, November 1, 2006. Accessed May 31, 2011 at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/obit-sanders.html
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Overview of Meteorology at MITunmigrated-wiki-markup
Atmospheric science at MIT has a long and storied history. Begun as a “Course” in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering by the famous Carl G. Rossby in 1928, it was thought to be “the first professional program in meteorology offered in an American Institution of higher learning.”\[v\] It grew to departmental status by 1939 and in 1941 became the Department of Meteorology. Karl Compton, President of MIT, served on the departmental status by 1939 and in 1941 became the Department of Meteorology. Karl Compton, President of MIT, served on the U.S. Meteorological Advisory Committee in 1934, which studied the Weather Bureau and current research underway at the time. Some years later, MIT hosted one of the meteorological training programs to serve our military. During World War II, between 7000 and 10,000 American students completed this education; 994 at MIT to be exact. (Dizikes) The military has always needed a strong weather component; soon after WW II, the Air Weather Service of the Air Force was the world’s largest. of the meteorological training programs to serve our military. During World War II, between 7000 and 10,000 American students completed this education; 994 at MIT to be exact. (Dizikes) The military has always needed a strong weather component; soon after WW II, the Air Weather Service of the Air Force was the world’s largest. (Edwards)
The meteorology faculty at MIT was always a “Who’s Who” of notable pioneers in the field. Besides Rossby, the Department was home to the talents of Jerome Namais, Hurd Willett, Sverre Petterssen, Henry Houghton, Jule Charney, Victor Starr, and Edward Lorenz to name only a few. A sampling of their connections were the famous Bergen School, von Neuman’s work in Princeton on the Meteorology Project using the ENIAC computer, and the Geophysics Research Directorate at the Air Force Cambridge Research Center at Hanscomb AFB. Synoptic meteorology, mapping, analysis, numerical weather prediction and other topics advanced greatly through faculty efforts. MIT was the home for multiple “Projects”: Planetary Circulation, Synoptic Climatology, and General Circulation. In 1957, the Department of Meteorology moved from the School of Engineering to the School of Science, and in 1983, then known as the Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, it merged with Earth and Planetary Sciences to form what we now know as EAPS.
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NOAA Central Library “Government Documents” http://www.lib.noaa.gov/collections/gov/gov.html . Accessed May 31, 2011.
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