Huge collection of atmosphere modeling journal articles available

[klw]

My father recently died. During his professional life he was an atmospheric scientist for GFDL for 40 years.  After his retirement he continued to do atmospheric modeling at home.  Over the years he amassed shelf loads of journal articles on modeling, etc.  We are obviously keeping his journal articles but my mother is not going to keep the rest.  

 

I have not done any sort of inventory but a quick glance shows them to be organized by author and subject in file folders. These appear to be from journals such as the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences.  An example of one of my fathers papers is  "Thermal Convection in a Rotating Fluid Annulus: The Basic Axisymmetric Flow."  That should give you an idea of what sort of articles there are.  I saw papers going back as far as the early 60's and a number of authors whose names I recognized from GFDL.

 

I imagine they would fill 5 to 10 bankers boxes.  If someone wants them you can have them if we can make arrangements for pick up/delivery. They are in the northeast US.  If you ever thought to yourself, hey I would like to read  articles on Hadley Cells from 1960s Norwegian scientific journals, this may be your shot to have that dream come true.

 

If anyone would like them, let me know because otherwise it looks like they are going to be recycled.

[WeatherFox]

My father recently died. During his professional life he was an atmospheric scientist for GFDL for 40 years.  After his retirement he continued to do atmospheric modeling at home.  Over the years he amassed shelf loads of journal articles on modeling, etc.  We are obviously keeping his journal articles but my mother is not going to keep the rest.  

 

I have not done any sort of inventory but a quick glance shows them to be organized by author and subject in file folders. These appear to be from journals such as the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences.  An example of one of my fathers papers is  "Thermal Convection in a Rotating Fluid Annulus: The Basic Axisymmetric Flow."  That should give you an idea of what sort of articles there are.  I saw papers going back as far as the early 60's and a number of authors whose names I recognized from GFDL.

 

I imagine they would fill 5 to 10 bankers boxes.  If someone wants them you can have them if we can make arrangements for pick up/delivery. They are in the northeast US.  If you ever thought to yourself, hey I would like to read  articles on Hadley Cells from 1960s Norwegian scientific journals, this may be your shot to have that dream come true.

 

If anyone would like them, let me know because otherwise it looks like they are going to be recycled.

As a member of this board, please accept my, our condolences on your father's passing.

[klw]

As a member of this board, please accept my, our condolences on your father's passing.

Thanks for the kind thoughts.  I don't expect anyone will be too interested in the papers as so much is online these days.  When he tried to find takers for all his old journals a few years ago he ended up recycling them.

[Turtle]

Hello.

 

First, my condolences on the passing of your father.  

 

Have you contacted Lyndon State College about donating these papers to their Atmospheric Sciences Department?  These papers sound like a treasure trove of information for the students there.  I don't think you're too far away from them.  If not, there's Plymouth State University in NH and UMass Lowell in MA.  Even though much of the research is online, having the actual live papers would be a wonderful thing, IMHO.  

 

If you need any contacts, please PM me.  Take care.

 

--Turtle (LSC Class of '82)