Article ID: CBB000931790

Outline of Weather Proposal, 1945 (With Historical Introduction by James Fleming) (2008)

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In October 1945 Vladimir K. Zworykin, Associate Research Director at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Laboratory in Princeton wrote his influential, but now all but forgotten mimeographed Outline of Weather Proposal. He began by discussing the importance to meteorology of accurate prediction, which he thought was entering a new era. Modern communication systems were beginning to allow the systematic compilation of scattered and remote observations, and new computing equipment was becoming available that could either solve the equations of atmospheric motion or at least search quickly for statistical regularities and past analogue weather conditions. He imagined an automatic plotting board that would quickly digest and display all this information. Zworykin suggested that exact scientific weather knowledge might allow for effective weather control. If a perfectly accurate machine could be developed that could predict the immediate future state of the atmosphere and identify the precise time and location of leverage points or locations sensitive to rapid storm development, then intervention might be possible

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Description A 1945 document with a new introduction.


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Authors & Contributors
Heymann, Matthias
Harper, Kristine C.
Gramelsberger, Gabriele
Herta Nöbauer
Frank, Mark E.
Mason, John
Concepts
Meteorology
Weather forecasting
Earth sciences
Climate and climatology
Computer Simulation
Weather control
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Alberta, Canada
Yugoslavia
Québec (Canada)
Scandinavia; Nordic countries
Portugal
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Columbia University (New York City)
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