Washington, Warren M.
Oral history interview with Warren M. Washington, 1998 October 28 and 29.
In this interview, Warren M. Washington discusses his career in climate research. Topics discussed include: his childhood and family history; race relations; William E. Milne; meteorology; Fred W. Decker; Stanford Research Institute; Hans Panofsky; Oregon State University; computer climate modeling; numerical forecast modeling; United States Air Force; Akira Kasahara; National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Chuck Leith; Courant Institute; Aksel Wiin-Nielsen; Phil Thompson; Walter Orr Roberts; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL); Yale Mintz; Akio Arakawa; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Francis Bretherton; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR); Department of Energy (DOE); Burt Semtner; University of Michigan; Suki Manabe; climate change; global warming; Joseph Smagorinsky; National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere (NACOA); Fred Singer; Anne Gorsuch Buford; Larry Goulder; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); NSFNET; National Science Foundation; Congressman Obey; affirmative action.
American meteorologist. Ph.D. meteorology, Pennsylvania State University (1964). Professional experience includes: research assistant meteorologist, Pannsylvania State University (1961-1963); adjunct professor of meteorology and oceanography, University of Michigan (1968-1971); appointee, National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere (1978-1983); member of Panel on Climate and Global Change, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (1987-1991); program scientist, program leader, senior scientist, head of climate section, research scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research (1972-).
Arakawa, Akio
Bretherton, F. P.
Burford, Anne M. (Anne McGill), 1942-
Decker, Fred W, (Fred William), 1917-
Goulder, Lawrence H. (Lawrence Herbert)
Kasahara, Akira
Leith, Cecil E., 1923-
Manabe, Syukuro, 1931-
Milne, William Edmund, 1890-
Mintz, Yale
Obey, David R.
Panofsky, Hans A.
Roberts, Walter Orr
Semtner, Bert
Singer, S. Fred (Siegfried Fred), 1924-
Smagorinsky, J. (Joseph)
Thompson, Philip Duncan
Washington, Warren M.
Wiin-Nielsen, A.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Oregon State University
Stanford Research Institute.
United States. Air Force
United States. Department of Energy fast
United States. National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere
United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
University of Michigan
Affirmative action programs
African American physicists
Climate -- Research.
Climatic changes
Global warming
Meteorology
Minorities in science.
NSFNET (Computer network)
Race relations.
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Edwards, Paul N., interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA