Joseph Smagorinsky
Joseph Smagorinsky (born January 29, 1924 in Manhattan , New York , † September 21, 2005 in Skillman , New Jersey ) was an American meteorologist at Princeton University and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He is considered a pioneer of computer-aided weather forecast ( numerical weather forecast ) and climate research .
Life
Smagorinsky was the son of Belarusian immigrants. He earned a bachelor's , master's and Ph.D. at New York University , where he studied with Bernhard Haurwitz and Hans A. Panofsky , among others .
Smagorinsky worked for the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and for the Weather Bureau in Washington, DC , where he expanded the weather models to include variables such as wind, cloud cover, precipitation, air pressure and solar radiation and heat radiation from the earth. With the advent of computers in the 1950s, Smagorinsky was one of the pioneers of numerical weather forecasting beyond a day or two. From 1955 to 1983 he was founding director of the General Circulation Research Section of the NOAA (from 1959 General Circulation Research Laboratory , from 1963 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory , GFDL), which had been on the Princeton University campus since 1968. He was professor of geology and geophysics at Princeton University.
Together with Syukuro Manabe , Smagorinsky described the first models for describing global warming . Together with Norman A. Phillips , he improved the weather forecast models. He promoted the inclusion of measurement data from satellites for weather forecasting ( weather satellites ) through the World Meteorological Organization .
Smagorinsky received numerous awards, including the American Meteorological Society's Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal in 1972 , the Buys-Ballot Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in 1973, and the 2003 Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute . In 1986 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was President of the American Meteorological Society.
Smagorinsky was married to Margaret Knoepfel. The couple had five children. Joseph Smagorinsky died as a result of his Parkinson's disease .
Web links
- Eric Quiñones: Pioneering meteorologist Smagorinsky dies. Princeton University Obituary (princeton.edu)
- Joseph Smagorinsky: Visionary in Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Modeling at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (noaa.gov)
- Jeremy Pearce: Joseph Smagorinsky, 81, a Pioneer in Weather Forecasting, Is dead. Obituary in the New York Times (nytimes.com)
- Interview with Joseph Smagorinsky (March 1, 1989) at the American Institute of Physics (aip.org)
- Interview With Professor J. Smagorinsky ( Memento from December 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Buys Ballot Medal at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (knaw.nl); accessed on October 13, 2017.
- ↑ Joseph Smagorinsky. In: fi.edu. January 20, 2015, accessed October 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 13, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smagorinsky, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American meteorologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manhattan |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 2005 |
| Place of death | Skillman (New Jersey) |