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Fleagle, Robert Guthrie was born on August 16, 1918 in Woodlawn, Maryland, United States. Son of Benjamin Edward and Frances Taylor (Guthrie) Fleagle.
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For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales. It will give students a good grasp of what the atmosphere and oceans look like on the large-scale and why they look that way. The role of the oceans in climate and paleoclimate is also discussed. The combination of observations, theory and accompanying illustrative laboratory experiments sets this text apart by making it accessible to students with no prior training in meteorology or oceanography. * Written at a mathematical level that is appealing for undergraduates and beginning graduate students * Provides a useful educational tool through a combination of observations and laboratory demonstrations which can be viewed over the web * Contains instructions on how to reproduce the simple but informative laboratory experiments * Includes copious problems (with sample answers) to help students learn the material.
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This book is addressed to those who wish to understand the relationship between atmospheric phenomena and the nature of matter as expressed in the principles of physics. The interesting atmospheric phenomena are more than applications of gravitation, of thermodynamics, of hydrodynamics, or of electrodynamics; and mastery of the results of controlled experiment and of the related theory alone does not imply an understanding of atmospheric phenomena. This distinction arises because the extent and the complexity of the atmosphere permit effects and interactions that are entirely negligible in the laboratory or are deliberately excluded from it. the objective of laboratory physics is, by isolating the relevant variables, to reveal the fundamental properties of matter; whereas the objective of atmospheric physics, or of any observational science, is to understand those phenomena that are characteristic of the whole system. For these reasons the exposition of atmospheric physics requires substantial extensions of classical physics. It also requires that understanding be based on a coherent "way of seeing" the ensemble of atmospheric phenomena. Only then is understanding likely to stimulate still more general insights.
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This book is addressed to those who wish to understand the relationship between atmospheric phenomena and the nature of matter as expressed in the principles of physics. The interesting atmospheric phenomena are more than applications of gravitation, of thermodynamics, of hydrodynamics, or of electrodynamics; and mastery of the results of controlled experiment and of the related theory alone does not imply an understanding of atmospheric phenomena. This distinction arises because the extent and the complexity of the atmosphere permit effects and interactions that are entirely negligible in the laboratory or are deliberately excluded from it. the objective of laboratory physics is, by isolating the relevant variables, to reveal the fundamental properties of matter; whereas the objective of atmospheric physics, or of any observational science, is to understand those phenomena that are characteristic of the whole system. For these reasons the exposition of atmospheric physics requires substantial extensions of classical physics. It also requires that understanding be based on a coherent "way of seeing" the ensemble of atmospheric phenomena. Only then is understanding likely to stimulate still more general insights.
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This book describes how the atmospheric sciences were transformed in the span of the author’s professional career from its origins in primitive weather forecasting to its current focus on numerical modeling of environmental change. It describes the author’s observations of the role that the science of the atmosphere now plays in climate change and other issues of social and political policy.
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Global Environmental Change reviews the facts and the uncertainties relating to some of the major environmental issues facing us today--greenhouse warming, loss of stratospheric ozone, and acid precipitation--and shows how these facts and uncertainties are dealt with by both governmental and nongovernmental agencies. Anticipated environmental changes in future decades are described and explained, and the consequences of those projected changes are described for rise of sea level, water resources, agriculture, ecological systems, and other topics. Three chapters of the study are devoted to the roles of academic institutions, government agencies, and nongovernmental agencies in developing and implementing policies. Another chapter discusses the relationship of U.S. research and environmental policy to international research and environmental policy, emphasizing how new concepts relating to global change have emerged from earlier research and out of the growing recognition of the seriousness of environmental problems. Finally, the work addresses the need for more effective interactions of science and policy.
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Fleagle, Robert Guthrie was born on August 16, 1918 in Woodlawn, Maryland, United States. Son of Benjamin Edward and Frances Taylor (Guthrie) Fleagle.
Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1940; Master of Science, New York University, 1944; Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1949.
Assistant professor University Washington, 1948-1951, associate professor, 1951-1956, professor, 1956—1989, senior fellow Joint Institute Study of Atmosphere and Ocean, since 1978, professor emeritus, 1989, chairman department atmospheric science, 1967-1977. Consultant various businesses, institutions, government agencies. Staff specialist Office Science and Technology, Executive Office of President, 1963-1965.
Member committee on atmospheric science National Academy of Sciences, 1962-1976, chairman, 1969-1973. Member panel on oceanography President's Science Advisory Committee, 1965-1966. Member United States committee Global Atmospheric Research Program, 1968-1973;member of advisory panel on meteorology North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1970-1973.
Chairman advisory panel BOMAP, 1969-1973. Member assembly of mathematics and physical science National Academy of Sciences, 1976-1979.
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Trustee University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, 1970-1978, chairman board, 1975-1977, chairman council members, 1966-1967, chairman membership committee, 1987-1989. Served from private to captain Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman section atmospheric and hydrological science 1977-1978), American Geophysical Union (president meteorological section 1967-1970), American Meteorological Society (Meisinger award 1959, fellowship, 1967, Cleveland Abbé award 1971, Brooks award 1985, commission science and technological activities 1965-1969, council 1957-1960, 73-76, 80-84, president 1981).
Member Sigma Xi.
Married Marianne Diggs, December 19, 1942, Rosemary Eliot Brodie, June 3, 2001. Children: Robert Guthrie, John B.