Word: meteorologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meteorologist Banner Miller of the National Hurricane Center at Miami is certain that this fatal underestimation will not be repeated. Today's weathermen know that the strength of a hurricane depends on the temperature of the sea water, the temperature of the air up to 50,000 ft., the strength of inflowing winds at low levels and dozens of other factors, and that all the factors can be measured. The only problem is getting the information rapidly and accurately...
...gadgets may get a real test this summer. Meteorologist Miller notes that hurricanes have occurred during May only nine times since 1887, and each of those years had an unusually large number of storms. It may be sheer coincidence, or it could be because hurricane conditions become favorable sooner and last longer. If true, the 1959 season may be a lively one. Tropical storm No. 1, Arlene, roared in over Louisiana...
Major General Donald N. Yates, commander, U.S.A.F missile-testing base, Cape Canaveral, Fla LL.D. Citation: "A very model of a modern major general, highly trained in science as well as warfare. A crack meteorologist, his predictions set the date for D-day in World War II ... He has proved himself a brilliant administrator and leader...
Evidence that Antarctica is a continental land mass was found last year by Russian explorers, reported Meteorologist Morton J. Rubin of the U.S. Weather Bureau last week. Back from 15 months with the Russians at Mirny on the Indian Ocean coast of Antarctica, Rubin revealed that a Russian party trekked about 1,500 miles inland to the "pole of inaccessibility," setting off dynamite charges in the ice to make seismic soundings every 30-50 miles. Echoes showed continuous land instead of a complex of islands or submerged mountains. The Russians say the land ranges from...
Various attempts had been made over the years to correlate magnetic storms with various terrestrial phenomena, and it was to this task that many IGY personnel devoted themselves. A few years ago, a Harvard meteorologist, the late H.H. Clayton, tried to establish a connection between earthly weather and solar activity. It appeared that during peaks of sunspot activity there tended to be more icebergs in northern latitudes, while in the Temperate Zone temperatures were subnormal and precipitation abnormal. It might be pointed out that during the great magnetic storm of February 10 the eastern and central parts of the United...