Jule Gregory Charney

Jule Gregory Charney
BornJanuary 1, 1917
DiedJune 16, 1981 (1981-06-17) (aged 64)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Alma materUCLA
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMeteorology
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorJørgen Holmboe[1]
Doctoral students
Other notable studentsBhupendra Nath Goswami (postdoc)[6]

Jule Gregory Charney (January 1, 1917 – June 16, 1981) was an American meteorologist who played an important role in developing numerical weather prediction and increasing understanding of the general circulation of the atmosphere by devising a series of increasingly sophisticated mathematical models of the atmosphere. His work was the driving force behind many national and international weather initiatives and programs.

Considered the father of modern dynamical meteorology, Charney is credited with having "guided the postwar evolution of modern meteorology more than any other living figure."[7][8] Charney's work also influenced that of his close colleague Edward Lorenz, who explored the limitations of predictability and was a pioneer of the field of chaos theory.

  1. ^ a b Jule Gregory Charney at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Charney, Jule Gregory (2001). Shukla, Jagadish (ed.). Dynamics of Large-Scale Atmospheric and Oceanic Processes: Selected Papers of Jule Gregory Charney. Hampton, Virginia: A. Deepak Publishing. ISBN 0-937194-40-9.
  3. ^ Nobre, Carlos A. (1983). "Tropical heat sources and their associated large-scale atmospheric circulation". Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  4. ^ "Currículo do Sistema de Currículos Lattes (Carlos Afonso Nobre)". Currículos Lattes. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  5. ^ Shepherd, Theodore Gordon (1984). Rossby waves and two-dimensional turbulence in the presence of a large-scale zonal jet (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/58531. OCLC 12621534.
  6. ^ "TWAS profile" (PDF). The World Academy of Sciences. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 November 2022.
  7. ^ "Biography of Jule Charney at American Geophysical Union". Archived from the original on 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
  8. ^ National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir of Jule Charney