Braham, Roscoe R.
Oral history interview with Roscoe R. Braham, 19 June 2002.
Topics include: Irving Langmuir's contributions to meteorology; 1947 cloud seeding experiment (Vince Schaefer); Thunderstorm Project; U.S. Weather Bureau and efficacy of seeding; seeding project with Jack Workman in New Mexico; attempt to modify hurricanes; project (Puerto Rico) to initiate precipitation through water drop seeding; Bergeron hypothesis of rain formation; Project White Top; Langmuir's theory of rain production by chain reaction in clouds; Weather Bureau response to Langmuir; recollections of Langmuir, Workman, Vince Schaefer, Bernard Vonnegut, Wallace Howell, Horace Byers; origin of the University of Arizona atmospheric science department (Lou Douglas' involvement, and Irving Krick).
Meteorologist.
Braham, Roscoe R.
Byers, Horace Robert, 1906-
Howell, Wallace
Krick, Irving
Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957
Schaefer, Vincent J.
Vonnegut, Bernard
Workman, E. J. (Everly John), 1899-
United States. Weather Bureau
University of Arizona
University of Arizona. Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences.
Clouds.
Hurricane modification
Hurricanes. fast
Meteorology
Rain-making
Thunderstorms.
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Meteorologists -- Interviews. lcsh
Cole, Stephen, 1941- interviewer
American Meteorological Society
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
AIP-ICOS
National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Archives. PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA