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Crow, Loren W.
Oral history interview with Loren W. Crow, 21 April 1992.
Topics include: undergraduate work; aviation cadet program in meteorology at California Institute of Technology (Caltech); service in Guam and Saipan; forecasting for bombing raids over Japanese cities, and response of B-29 pilots; first verification of upper-level jetstream; destruction in postwar Japan; establishment of Offutt Air Force Base Weather Central; work for Irving Krick's International Meteorology Consulting Service in England, then in weather modification in the United States; establishment of own applied meteorology business; work with air conditioning industry, designers of cooling towers, consulting meteorologist for the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) (predecessor to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)); American Meteorological Society (AMS) certified consulting meteorologist program; National Council of Industrial Meteorologists; assignments from National Science Foundation, including a review of weather modification programs; forensic meteorology, and other projects.
Meteorologist.
Crow, Loren W.
Krick, Irving
American Mathematical Society.
California Institute of Technology
Environmental Science Service Administration.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Air conditioning
Cooling towers
Forecasting.
Jet stream.
Meteorology
Weather control
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan.
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London, Julius, 1917- interviewer
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