Abstract Mike Lockwood and Mat Owens discuss how eclipse observations are aiding the development of a climatology near-Earth space

This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth-century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO’s World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to...

Diagnostic meteorology is intertwined with the role of humans in forecasting, as discussed in D86a. Truly, weather forecasting is part of the science of meteorology, but recent history has created the illusion of a dichotomy between them. This paper attempts to illustrate how we envision diagnostic meteorology should proceed. In the process, we shall provide a basis for understanding why the ga...

Formed in 1983 and currently with 90 members, the Special Interest Group for the History of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography (History Group) encourages the study of the history and heritage of meteorology and physical oceanography. It provides a forum for discussion of all aspects of the history of meteorology and physical oceanography, co-operates with similar institutions and publishes a...

The temperature of the Earth is rising, and is highly likely to continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The study of the effects of sustained heating on the ecosystems of theworld is necessary so thatwemight predict and respond to coming changes on both large and small spatial scales. To this end, ecosystem warming studies have been performed formore than 20 years using a variety ofmethod...

Wen LU, Shao-bo WANG, Rui WANG Institute of Meteorology & oceanography, PLA University of Science & Technology, Nanjing 211101, China Introduction: WindSat is the first spaceborne fully polarimetric microwave radiometer in the world. It can measure the third and fourth Stokes parameters of the target and provide a new way for sea ice remote sensing. By using WindSat data in 2004, we studied on ...

The Marine Meteorology Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL MMD) is actively involved in the field of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) to provide continuous weather suDoort to the U. S. Navy for both wartime and peacetime missions. This support extends from the Surface of the earth to altitudes exceeding 10 km, and for time scales ranging from a few hours up to 7 days The NWP produc...