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Horace Robert Byers
Horace Robert Byers
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BRAHAM, JR., AND THOMAS F . MALONE HORACE ROBERT BYERS was a pioneer in aviation meteorology, synoptic weather analysis, severe storms, clouc!
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When he was nine years oIcI, his father accepted a position in San Francisco as assistant chief engineer, western district, of the Interstate Commerce Commission's Bureau of Valuation, en cl the family movecl to Berkeley, California. Here Horace grew up en cl went to college.
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After graduation from Berkeley in 1929 with an A.B. degree in geography, Byers received a fellowship from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund to attend MIT, where he studied meteorology uncler Rossby en cl Hurcl C
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Weather Bureau. The polar front theory of weather disturbances, clevelopecl by Vilhelm Bjerknes en cl colleagues at the Bergen Geophysical Institute, Bergen, Norway, was just coming into use by the Weather Bureau in the analysis of weather observations en cl making of weather forecasts.
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War II en c! the early postwar years, Byers served as a consultant to several government agencies, inclucIing the Department of Defense, Atomic Energy Commission Manhattan Project, National Science Foundation, en c!
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into a retirement center near Santa Barbara, California. In 1975 Byers was a visiting professor at the University of Clermont-FerrancI, where he taught cloud physics, lecturing in French.
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problems of meteorological research. This recommendation matched with that of the research group that proposal the establishment of a national institute for atmospheric research organizer!
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A year after President Kennedy macle that proposal, the United Nations invited the non-governmental International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) to participate in cirawing up this program.
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The scientific publications of Horace Robert Byers are mainly in three areas: general meteorology, thunderstorms en c! severe weather, en c!
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While with the Weather Bureau he began a study of thunderstorm rainfall using ciata from a Soil Conversation Service network of rain gages in Ohio. This study then was publishecl after he arrivecl at Chicago.
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Vincent Schaefer, of General Electric Laboratories, cliscoverecl that silver-ioclicle smokes were effective in initiating ice crystals in all-liquicl supercoolecl cloucis. Experiments in thin supercooled stratus clearly demonstrated that such cloucis couIcl be turned to ice crystals if natural ice nuclei were insufficient.
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The final report, publishecl as an American Meteorological Society Monograph,6 container! many new finclings about the physics of cloucis en cl their response to seedling, but little encouragement for cloucl seedling.
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upon class lecture notes at the University of Chicago. His 1974 chapter in the book Weather and Climate Modification, eclitecl by W
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Brooks Award, American Meteorological Society 1978 Cleveland Abbe Award, American Meteorological Society SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES Fellow, American Meteorological Society (president, 1952-53; honorary member, 1975) American Geophysical Union (section president, 1947-48)
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: 1 -5 4. 1937 Synoptic and Aeronautical Meteorology.
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681-93. Boston: American Meteorological Society.
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1974 49 History of weather modification. In Weather and Climate Modification, ed.
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