Joseph Smagorinsky
Joseph Smagorinsky · Science & Medicine
Meteorologist, a founder of large-scale atmospheric general circulation modeling
1924, New York City, United States — 2005, Hightstown, New Jersey, United States
United States
Joseph Smagorinsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Meteorologist, a founder of large-scale atmospheric general circulation modeling
Smagorinsky was a meteorologist and a founder of large-scale atmospheric general circulation modeling; the Smagorinsky model of subgrid turbulence bears his name and remains widely used. He founded and long led NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton. He was born in New York to a Jewish immigrant family from Belarus.
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Meteorologist, a founder of large-scale atmospheric general circulation modeling
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
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