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Bundgaard, Robert C.
Oral history interview with Robert C. Bundgaard, 16 September 1998.
Robert C. Bundgaard begins by describing his family and youth in Denver, Colorado, and his early interest in music and mathematics. He discusses his education at the University of Denver; work at the Mount Evans Observatory under Joyce Stearns, investigating the influence of [cosmic] radiation on fruit flies, and graduate work at Columbia University. He comments on his activities as an aviation cadet in meteorology at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) under Joe Kaplan and Jac Bjerknes, and other instructors. He reports on subsequent work at the Pentagon Weather Central as part of the Long Range Forecasting Units, describing forecasting techniques using desk calculators. Next, he details his posting to southern England to help forecast for the Allied strategic bombing campaign and pending invasion of Normandy, and discusses his group's upper air forecasting efforts, Soviet weather observations, and the 21st Weather Squadron. Finally, he describes the consensus D-Day invasion (Operation Overlord) forecast as it was prepared by the various Allied meteorology groups, commenting on the activities of Don Yates, Ben Holzman, Irving Krick, Sverre Petterssen, and J. M. Stagg.
Meteorologist.
Bjerknes, Jac og Hedvig.
Bundgaard, Robert C.
Holzman, Benjamin Grad
Kaplan, Joseph A., 1902-1991
Krick, Irving
Petterssen, Sverre, 1898-
Stearns, Joyce C.
Yates, Donald N. (Donald Norton), 1909-1993
Columbia University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Denver.
Cosmic rays
Forecasting.
Fruit-flies
Mathematics
Meteorology
Operation Overlord
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy
Denver (Colo.)
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Meteorologists -- Interviews. lcsh
American Meteorological Society
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Holzman, Melvin interviewer
Rabson, Diane 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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