Applied Climatology

Landsberg, H. E.; Jacobs, Woodrow C.

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“…It is quite correct that climatology has a little of the musty smell of archival around it. It has even been described as the morgue and graveyard of the meteorological observations which are primarily collected for synoptic purposes …”

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“…This makes it imperative that the climatologist should not only know the weather data but should also diagnose the case to which the data are to be applied …. Applied climatology should be in each instance a cooperative venture …”

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“…Applied climatology should be in each instance a cooperative venture. 59 The state climatology program reflected clearly his ambition to integrate climatology-and climatologists-into national decision making, an issue that later helped to define the politicization of climate for the first time in American history. 60 For those who had worked with Landsberg to secure a national climate services program, the experience was formative.…”

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Helmut Landsberg and the evolution of 20th century American climatology: envisioning a climatological renaissance

Henderson

2016

WIREs Climate Change

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After World War II, German‐American climatologist Helmut Landsberg sought to realize his war‐time vision for an American ‘climatological renaissance.’ Given the dramatic degradation of European science during the war, he believed that the United States offered the best hope to strengthen and reformulate what he considered to be the stale tradition of conceiving climatology as a geographical discipline. Inhabiting high‐level positions within the American geophysical establishment after the war, his primary goal was to develop the tools and resources to analyze and interpret the overwhelming amounts of data that had been amassed over the centuries while, simultaneously, making climatology relevant to American life. However, there were limits. As someone who had invested his professional life in making climatology a useful discipline, Landsberg grew increasingly concerned that public debates about climate threatened his vision for a climatological renaissance. During the last two decades of his life, he became fixated on maintaining his ideal that climatology was not a glamorous discipline, and objected vehemently to those who sought to counter what he considered to be its true character. WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e442. doi: 10.1002/wcc.442 This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Thought Leaders

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2016

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“…Typical California problems-modification of hot environments, greater irrigation efficiency, frost protection of orchards, control of drift of agricultural chemicals applied by planes-are a few important examples which can be analyzed by heat and moisture transfers if instrumentation is adequate. Many others have been described by Landsberg and Jacobs [1], who pointed out very clearly the need not only for new methods but also for new instrumentation.…”

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A Spot Climate Recorder

Schultz

Brooks

1956

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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In agricultural research as well as in applied climatology as a whole, there is an increasing demand for portable meteorological field equipment capable of recording continuously more environmental factors than the conventional hygro-thermograph. The spot climate recorder described can register dry bulb, wet bulb, soil, and black globe temperatures, and wind direction and velocity on either daily or weekly charts, whichever is best for the climate survey. If desired, all these elements can be registered on one chart, but a set of two recorders has been found to be no more expensive and gives the economic advantage of making each useable separately. This is desirable for instance when a network of wind registering stations is needed (including 1 temperature each) but the complete record of moisture, radiation, etc. is sufficient at one station. The wind-recording circuits are designed for low-current drain on a 6-volt storage battery. Rather than draw on this battery to provide aspiration for the dry and wet-bulb thermometers, the wind velocity record is used to determine at which few hours the wet-bulb record may be unreliable.

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“…can be illustrated by examples, but space does not permit this. Discussion and examples of the various combinations can be found in an article by Landsberg and Jacobs[1]. However, the intentions of the…”

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Some Climatological Problems Associated with Assignment of Engineering Design Criteria *

Jacobs

Spreen

1953

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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5dered military gcography obsolete. Increases in firc power afforded by nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and progress in rocketry, have merely imposed a necessity for changes in tactics and organization, and for grcatly improved mobility and supply. Land warfare has not been rendered obsolete; one cannot assume that future warfare will be solely warfare of supply. Therefore, there remains a real need for a fully developed field of military geography. 0 0 0 ( I ) Bernard, hlerrill, "The Role of Climatology in Engineering,"

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Applied Climatology

Cited by 15 publications

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Helmut Landsberg and the evolution of 20th century American climatology: envisioning a climatological renaissance

Helmut Landsberg and the evolution of 20th century American climatology: envisioning a climatological renaissance

A Spot Climate Recorder

Some Climatological Problems Associated with Assignment of Engineering Design Criteria *

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