Collection documents the professional career of meteorologist Jerome Namias. The collection includes correspondence from Jerome Namias's time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his leadership of the U.S. Weather Bureau's Extended Forecast Division, and his position at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The collection also includes a large amount of research data, including technical materials, graphs, charts, computer printouts, and data books. The collection also includes subject files, travel files, working files, published and unpublished writings, slides, weather maps, audio recordings, films, photographs, awards, and commendations.