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Anderson, Charles Edward
Oral history interview with Charles E. Anderson, 1992.
Charles E. Anderson begins by recalling his entry into the Army Air Corps at the University of Chicago, and his work there under Horace Byers, Wolf, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Reed and Victor Starr. He then covers the Black Army Air Corps group based at Tuskegee and his service as squadron weather officer. He comments on studying high polymer chemistry at Brooklyn Poly, and his assignment to Watson Labs in the Atmospheric Analysis group, overseeing the work of German scientists including [Randolph] Pendorff, Heinz Lettau and [E.W.] Wahl. He then discusses his work with the [AFCRC] Geophysics Research Directorate [aka GRD]. He mentions work with Kappa, Kellogg, and Helmut Landsberg at GRD, and notes C. Yunge's work on composition of aerosols as well as Japanese scientists work on vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy. Anderson reflects on his publication of Cumulus Dynamics "Proceedings of the ... Conference on Cumulus Convection," and his work with Betty Iliff on gravity wave type pulsations using pressure transducers. He comments on Lowly's work with balloons for gathering stratospheric data and describes cloud seeding experiments. He talks about his service as cloud physics project officer in Project [Operation] Greenhouse, the forerunner of H-bomb experiments. He notes his work with Pendar on suppressing jet contrails, his PhD work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and move to head the atmospheric analysis group at Douglas Aircraft, where he worked on interplanetary exploration and moist cloud models. He mentions his work at the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) under Bob White, setting up the first World Weather Watch program. He then describes his work as a professor at the University of Wisconsin with Vern Suomi, and studies of tornadic thunderstorms, detailing the use of satellite and computer technology. He discusses his tenure at North Carolina State, working on the move from orlarian to Lagrangian schemes and improving on statistical interpretation of data. He ends by reflecting on his family background, the scarcity of Black PhDs in meteorology, and his thoughts of the future.
Meteorologist.
Anderson, Charles Edward
Byers, Horace Robert, 1906-
Landsberg, Helmut Erich, 1906-1985
Rossby, Carl-Gustaf
Starr, Victor P.
Suomi, Verner
Douglas Aircraft Company
Environmental Science Service Administration.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Meteorology
North Carolina State University
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Thomas J. Watson IBM Research Center
United States. Air Force
United States. Army. Air Corps.
University of Chicago
University of Chicago. Department of Meteorology
University of Wisconsin--Madison
World Weather Watch
Aerosols.
African American scientists.
Balloons.
Condensation trails
Cloud physics.
Hydrogen bomb
Meteorology
Operation Greenhouse.
Rain-making
Stratosphere.
Thunderstorms.
Tornadoes. fast
Vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy.
World War, 1939-1945
Tuskegee (Ala.)
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Meteorologists -- Interviews. lcsh
American Meteorological Society
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Droessler, Earl G. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Archives. PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
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