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Oral History Interview with Askel C. Wiin-Nielsen
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Oral History Interview with Askel C. Wiin-Nielsen
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Aksel Wiin-Nielsen discusses his graduate education under Ragnar Fjortoft, Carl-Gustav Rossby, and Bert Bolin. He describes his research in weather forecasting methods at the Royal Swedish Air Weather Service; his work on numerical weather prediction at the Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit in the United States; his appointment to NCAR and research in dynamic meteorology; his recollections of NCAR and its staff, 1961-1963; his assignment to create a department of meteorology at the University of Michigan; his involvement with the formation of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts; and his responsibilities as Secretary General, World Meteorological Organization and Director, Danish Meteorological Institute. He recounts his interactions and collaborations with Philip D. Thompson and Joseph Smagorinsky. Oral history interview with Aksel Wiin-Nielsen, 1987. Interviewed by Joseph Tribbia, Warren Washington, and Akira Kasahara. 3 sound cassettes (ca. 4 hrs.) : analog, mono + transcript (62 pgs.). AMS 12-14; two physical versions (one master, one copy). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project.