Thompson, Philip Duncan
Oral history interview with Philip Thompson, 1987.
Topics include: early life and family; interest in science and education; time in the Air Force; Princeton project in Numerical Weather Prediction; other scientist working in the meteorological field around the 1940s; graduate school research and thesis; time in Stockholm; the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the High Altitude Observatory (HAO); and turbulence.
Meteorologist.
Thompson, Philip Duncan
High Altitude Observatory (National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.))
National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.)
Princeton University
United States. Air Force
Meteorology
Numerical weather forecasting. fast
Turbulence.
Stockholm (Sweden)
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Meteorologists -- Interviews. lcsh
American Meteorological Society
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Kasahara, Akira interviewer.
Tribbia, Joseph J. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Archives. PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA