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Joanne Simpson 1923-2010
Joanne Simpson 1923-2010
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, former leader of the Tropical rain Measuring Mission and storm modeling program at the National aeronautics and space administration's (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center and the "mother" of modern research on tropical clouds and hurricanes, died on March 4, 2010, at the age of 86.
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on the role of "hot towers" or convective clouds in maintaining the trade wind circulation, providing the solution to an apparent paradox. as every school child knows, air in the trade-wind belts converge near the equator, where it rises and carries the excess heat energy aloft and then poleward into both hemispheres.
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so in 1979 she accepted an offer to lead the severe storms Branch at the Nasa goddard space Flight Center. There her research first focused on convective cloud systems and tropical cyclones using advanced numerical models and observations.
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it has exceeded by far its original goal of advancing our understanding of the distribution of tropical rainfall and its relation to global water and energy cycles. it has become the primary satellite in a system of research and operational satellites used for analyzing precipitation characteristics on timescales from three hours to interannually and beyond.
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she backed up her talk by providing qualified women with a chance to succeed by hiring them, suggesting them to colleagues seeking new hires or collaborators, and choosing them for volunteer jobs in the american Meteorological society. she was a valued mentor not only to women but also to men, both younger and older.
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Their location was an easy drive to the Kennedy Center and the Shakespeare Theater to take pleasure in music, opera, and theater and also to the cosmos club to savor gourmet dinners. They also gave of their time to authors who needed advice on the authenticity of their accounts of thunderstorms and hurricanes.
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