The Atmosphere — A Challenge: The Science of Jule Gregory Charney

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This is a tribute to the scientific career and life of Jule G. Charney (1917-1981). The centerpiece of this memorial volume is a transcription of a taped interview with Jule Charney shortly before his death in 1981. George W. Platzman who also conducted the interview, edited the transcript of the tapes to what is now chapter 2 in this book. The remainder of this volume is devoted to essays by several highly respected experts in the field of meteorology. Some are dealing with Jule Charney's influence on his field, others with appreciations of specific phases of his work. The volume is completed by reprints of some of Jule Charney's own work. For those who were fortunate enough to know Jule Charney personally, this volume will be a reminder of his presence. And the Editors hope for other this book will help to flesh out the persona of a name indelibly inscribed in the literature of his field and show the impact Jule Charney had on the modern evolution of dynamic meteorology. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contributors Foreword Jule Charney's Vitae and Primary Publications Table of Contents Part I. JULE CHARNEY'S LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS Chapter 1 Charney Remembered Chapter 2 The Atmosphere—AChallenge Part II. JULE CHARNEY'S INFLUENCE Chapter 3 Charney—A Remarkable Colleague Chapter 4 Charney and the Revival of Numerical Weather Prediction Chapter 5 Charney's Influence on Meteorology Chapter 6 Charney's Influence on Physical Oceanography Chapter 7 Charney's Influence on Desert Research Chapter 8 Charney as a Leader of GARP Chapter 9 Charney as a Bowie Laureate Part III. JULE CHARNEY'S ACHIEVEMENTS Chapter 10 Baroclinic Instability: The Charney Paradigm Chapter 11 The Emergence of Quasi-Geostrophic Theory Chapter 12 Charney's Work on Vertically Propagating Rossby Waves Part IV. JULE CHARNEY'S WORK THE DYNAMICS OF WNG WAVES IN A BAROCLINIC WESTERLY CURRENT ON THE SCALE OF ATMOSPHERIC MOTIONS Numerical Integration of the Barotropic Vorticity Equation THE GULF STREAM AS AN INERTIAL BOUNDARY LAYER Propagation of Planetary-Scale Disturbances from the Lower into the Upper Atmosphere