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When I was elected a member of the Council of the AMS in 1957, I was exposed more directly than before to national meteorological affairs. From that time forward, I can now recognize, my interests gradually broadened to include institutional matters and science policy, and this broadening is reflected clearly in the chronological list of my publications.24 However, the central motivation throughout my career has been to strengthen the department and to move the UW toward becoming a leading center of education and research in the atmospheric sciences. I have considered activities relating to policy as important contributors in that quest.
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The committee was appointed at the request of the Chief of the Weather Bureau Francis W. Reichelderfer. Cochairmen of the committee were Carl-Gustav Rossby and Lloyd V. Berkner and members were Henry Booker, Horace R. Byers, Jule G. Charney, Carl Eckart, Paul Klopsteg, Thomas F. Malone, and Edward Teller.
Malone was director of Research at Traveller’s Insurance Co., chairman of NAS/CAS, and former associate professor of meteorology at MIT. Charney was professor of meteorology at MIT and Goody Professor of Meteorology at Harvard.
These two meetings were reported to me much later by Tom Malone.
Malone assumes that it was Schlesinger who was responsible for inclusion of the words “eventually in weather control” in Kennedy’s U.N. speech. It probably was at least reviewed by Wiesner.
The NAS/CAS report and Charney’s proposal can be seen as built on the successes of the Thunderstorm Project (1946–48), the largest meteorological research project to that time (Byers and Braham 1949) and the much larger International Geophysical Year (1957–58).
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Fleagle, R.G. (2001). Windows on National and International Affairs. In: Eyewitness: Evolution of the Atmospheric Sciences. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-08-9_4
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