Topics include: wartime position as instructor at University of Chicago, and Institute for Tropical Meteorology in Puerto Rico; research on cold-core storms; reflections about Clarence Palmer; postwar return to teaching at Chicago; work on rotating dishpan experiments; as consultant to the Navy o... Show moreTopics include: wartime position as instructor at University of Chicago, and Institute for Tropical Meteorology in Puerto Rico; research on cold-core storms; reflections about Clarence Palmer; postwar return to teaching at Chicago; work on rotating dishpan experiments; as consultant to the Navy on the AROWA Project; research with Joanne Simpson on trade-wind inversion in the tropical Pacific; discovery of hot towers; hurricane research using aircraft; work on initial deepening and development of hurricanes; graduate students at Chicago; teaching meteorology at University of Colorado; changes at Chicago and move to Colorado State University; development of meteorology program at CSU, faculty and research; VIMHEX; reflections on changing university environment; compiling historic ocean temperatures; graduate students at CSU; comments on models versus observations; NCARâs mission; awards and recognition; reflections about career. Oral history interview with Herbert Riehl, 1989. Interviewed by Joanne Simpson. 2 sound cassettes (ca. 3 hrs.) : analog, mono + transcript (37 pgs.). AMS 37-38; two physical versions (one master, one copy). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project. Show less
