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Jerome Namias
Jerome Namias
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the highest awards of the American Meteorological Society en c! helper!
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about the American Meteorological Society, founclec! by Charles F
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Clayton interviewoc! Namias by asking him to extract station pressures from the isobars on some random weather maps.
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Hurt! Willett, an authority on American air masses en c!
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Namias as chief of the weather bureau, wouIc! later stress the probabilistic nature of forecasts, which is especially important when clearing with the growing uncertainty at long ranges.
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of the American Meteorological Society in 1938. Namias reasoner!
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in the New York Times as: "The weather bureau has enTistec!
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a citation from Navy Secretary Frank Knox for his sea-state forecasts for the North African invasion.~5 Namias also macle forecasts for favorable periods for the transfer of clisablec! vessels to other ports for repair, estimates of the likely course of incendiary balloons from Japan, favorable en c!
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Charney clevelopec! the first successful numerical forecast using the barotropic moclel, which Namias hac!
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INDEX CYCLE Namias's stay in Swollen resultec! in another notable paper, a stucly of the inclex cycle (1950)
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efforts, resulted in his being given in 1955 the highest award of the American Meteorological Society, the Award for Extraorclinary Scientific Achievement. i9 LAND INFLUENCES In 1955 Namias also receiver!
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North Atlantic, operating through teleconnections. Once this triple cell pattern was establishecI, soil moisture cleficits conic!
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to retire from the weather bureau the same year.2i SCRIPPS Actually, Namias never retired, he just changer! locations.22 Namias's earlier work increasingly hac!
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Mecial of the American Meteorological Society for his pioneering efforts on air-sea interactions. Namias's air-sea interaction theories were not universally accepted.
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, this discounting of tropical effects was clue in part to the stanciarc! weather bureau Northern Hemisphere maps, to which Namias hac!
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patterns en c! in North Pacific sea-surface temperatures.
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at long ranges. To conclucle, one of Namias's major accomplishments at Scripps was to help clevelop an experimental climate forecast center where novel techniques conic!
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degree University of Michigan, 1934-35 University of Rhode Island, honorary D.Sc Clark University, honorary D.Sc., 1984 AWARD S ., 1972 1938 Meisinger Award, American Meteorological Society 1943 Citation from Navy Secretary Frank Knox for weather forecasts in connection with the invasion of North Africa 1950 Meritorious Service Award, U.S. Department of Commerce 1955 Award for Extraordinary Scientific Accomplishment, American Meteorological Society Rockefeller Public Service Award 1965 Gold Medal Award, U.S.
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, councilor 1940-42, 1950-53, 1960-63, and 1970-73 Board of Editors, Geofisica Internacional, Mexico Explorers Club (fellow) Mexican Geophysical Union National Academy of Sciences National Weather Association Royal Meteorological Society of Great Britain Sigma Xi Washington Academy of Sciences (fellow)
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All the major numerical weather prediction centers have since carried out major reanalyses, which now involve both model predictions as well as observations.
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Namias Symposium on the Status and Prospects for Climate Prediction. 78th annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Phoenix, Ariz.
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Namias Symposium on the Status and Prospects for Climate Prediction. 78th annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Phoenix, Ariz.
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Confluence theory of the high tropospheric jet stream.
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2. American Meteorological Society.
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106:279-95. 1979 Northern Hemisphere seasonal 700-mb height and anomaly charts, 1947-79, and associated North Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies.
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