Joseph Smagorinsky

Joseph Smagorinsky
Joseph Smagorinsky in Russian
2003 Franklin Award Ceremony (Joseph Smagorinsky honored)
The Symposium on Climate Modeling, Tashkent, 1976

Videos

Joseph Smagorinsky on Mr. Wizard, 1966

Historical Documents

Harper Dissertation including history of meteorology
PSAC, 1965, Restoring the Quality of Our Environment
Turing's Cathedral Excerpt
Deducing Climate by R. Saravanan
Reflections on the Conception, Birth, and Childhood of Numerical Weather Prediction by Edward N. Lorenz
The Man Who Predicted Climate Change [Syukuro Manabe]
Smagorinsky SGS model
The Smagorinsky turbulence model by Marco Rosler
The ENIAC Compulations of 1950: Gateway to Numerical weather Prediction by George Platzman
Clouds, circulation, and climate sensitivity
History of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Academic Program
Joseph Smagorinsky: Visionary in Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Modeling
Franklin Award Announcement

Obituaries, Biographies, and Memorials

Obituary
Joseph Smagorinsky obituary
Wikipedia Page
Joseph Smagorinsky: A Man of Vision by Kirk Bryan
Smagorinsky's GFDL by John M. Lewis
Climate Policy Watcher Biography
Encyclopedia.com Biography
IT History Profile
Short career Powerpoint
Memorial Service Part 1 | Part 2

Interviews

AMS UCAR Interview With Joseph Smagorinsky by John Young 16 May 1986 | Abstract | Index | Transcript
Interview of Joseph Smagorinsky by Spencer Weart on 1989 March 1, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD.
Smagorinsky interview 1998
Smagorinsky 5-4-2004

Publications
Research | History | Tributes | Book Reviews

Research Articles and Chapters

Smagorinsky, J. (1953, December). Data processing requirements for the purposes of numerical weather prediction. In Papers and discussions presented at the Dec. 8-10, 1953, eastern joint AIEE-IRE computer conference: information processing systems--reliability and requirements (pp. 22-30).

Smagorinsky, J. (1953). The dynamical influence of large-scale heat sources and sinks on the quasi-stationary mean motions of the atmosphere. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 79(341), 342-366.

Smagorinsky, J. (1955). A synopsis of research on quasi-stationary perturbations of the mean zonal circulation caused by topography and heating. In Dynamics of Climate: The Proceedings of a Conference on the Application of Numerical Integration Techniques to the Problem of the General Circulation held October 26-28, 1955. New York, NY: Pergamon Press, 44-49.

Smagorinsky, J., & Collins, G.O. (1955). On the numerical prediction of precipitation. Monthly Weather Review, 83(3), 53-68.

Smagorinsky, J. (1956). On the inclusion of moist adiabatic processes in numerical prediction models. In Bericht des Deutschen Wetterdienstes, Nr. 38, 82-90.

Eliassen, A., J. S. Sawyer, and J. Smagorinsky. (1957). Upper air network requirements for numerical weather prediction. WMO Technical Note No. 29. Geneva, CH: WMO.

Smagorinsky, J. (1958). On the numerical integration of the primitive equations of motion for baroclinic flow in a closed region. Monthly Weather Review, 86(12), 457-466.

Smagorinsky, J. (1960, January). On the dynamical prediction of large-scale condensation by numerical methods. In Physics of Precipitation: Proceedings of the Cloud Physics Conference, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, June 3-5, 1959 (Vol. 5, pp. 71-78). Washington DC: American Geophysical Union.

Smagorinsky, J. (1960). On the application of numerical methods to the solution of systems of partial differential equations arising in meteorology. Frontiers of numerical mathematics, 107-125.

Smagorinsky, J. (1960). A synopsis of research on quasi-stationary perturbations of the mean zonal circulation caused by topography and heating. In "Dynamics of Climate" (pp. 44-49). Pergamon Press Oxford.

Smagorinsky, J. (1960). A primitive equation model including condensation processes. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Numerical Weather Predictions, Japan Meteorological Society, 555.

Smagorinsky, J., & Manabe, S. (1962, January). Numerical model for study of global general circulation. In Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 43, No. 12, p. 673).

Smagorinsky, J. (1963). Remarks on geophysical fluid dynamics. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 44, 28-34.

Smagorinsky, J. (1963). General circulation experiments with the primitive equations: I. The basic experiment. Monthly weather review, 91(3), 99-164.

Smagorinsky, J. (1964). Implications of dynamical modelling of the general circulation on long-range forecasting. In WMO-IUGG Symposium on Research and Development Aspects of Long-range Forecasting, Boulder, CO., WMO Technical Note 62, 131-137.

Smagorinsky, J. (1964). Some aspects of the general circulation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 90(383), 1-14.

Manabe, S., Smagorinsky, J., & Strickler, R. F. (1965). Simulated climatology of a general circulation model with a hydrologic cycle. Monthly Weather Review, 93(12), 769-798.

Smagorinsky, J. (1965). An Introduction to the Hydrodynamical Methods of Short Period Weather Forecasting.

Smagorinsky, J., Manabe, S., & Holloway, J. L. (1965). Numerical results from a nine-level general circulation model of the atmosphere. Monthly weather review, 93(12), 727-768.

Manabe, S., J. Smagorinsky, and R. F. Strickler. (1965). Simulated climatology of a general circulation model with a hydrologic cycle. Monthly Weather Review, 93(12), 769-798.

Smagorinsky, J. (1965). Numerical simulation of the atmosphere's general circulation. In Large-scale Problems in Physics, IBM Scientific Computing Symposium, Yorktown Heights, NY: 141-144.

Smagorinsky, J. (1965). Remarks on data processing in meteorology. In Proceedings of the WMO/IUGG Symposium on Meteorological Data Processing, Brussels, Belgium, WMO Technical Note 73, pp. 112.

Smagorinsky, J., R. F. Strickler, W. E. Sangster, S. Manabe, J. L. Holloway, and G. D. Hembree. (1965). Prediction experiments with a general circulation model. In Proceedings of IAMAP/WMO International Symposium - Dynamics of Large-scale Processes, Moscow, Russia. 70-134.

Smagorinsky, J. (1966). Remarks on mathematical models. In IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on the Environmental Sciences, Session 5 - Mathematical models, 241-244.

Smagorinsky, J. (1967). The role of numerical modeling. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89-93.

Manabe, S., and J. Smagorinsky. (1967). Simulated climatology of a general circulation model with a hydrologic cycle II. Analysis of thetropical atmosphere. Monthly Weather Review, 95(4), 155-169.

Smagorinsky, J. (1967). Theoretical Modeling of the Atmosphere's General Circulation. Prospects for Simulation and Simulators of Dynamic Systems, 21.

Smagorinsky, J. (1969). Problems and data needs of global atmospheric models for the 1970s. In First USCG National Data Buoy Systems Scientific Advisory Meeting, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 16-26.

Smagorinsky, J. (1969). Numerical simulation of the global atmosphere. The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere. Royal Meteorological Society, London, 24-41.

Smagorinsky, J. (1969). Problems and promises of deterministic extended range forecasting. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 50(5), 286-312. [Link to whole volume]

Smagorinsky, J. (1969). World Weather Kudos. Science News, 96(18), 392-392.

Miyakoda, K., Smagorinsky, J., Strickler, R. F., & Hembree, G. D. (1969). Experimental extended predictions with a nine-level hemispheric model. Monthly Weather Review, 97(1), 1-76.

Manabe, S., J. Smagorinsky, J. L. Holloway, Jr., and H. M. Stone. (1970). Simulated climatology of a general circulation model with a hydrologic cycle, III. Effects of increased horizontal computational resolution. Monthly Weather Review, 98(3), 175-212.

Smagorinsky, J. (1970). Numerical simulation of the global circulation. Global circulation of the atmosphere, 24-41.

Smagorinsky, J. (1971). Numerical simulation of climate modification. In Proceedings of the 12th Interagency Conference on Climate Modification, Virginia Beach, VA, 221-226.

Smagorinsky, J. (1972). Some thoughts on contemporary global climatic variability. In R. V. Garcia, Drought and Man: The 1972 Case History, Volume 1: Nature Pleads Not Guilty, pp. 265-295.

Smagorinsky, J. (1977). Modeling and predictability. Energy and climate: Studies in geophysics, 133-139.

Smagorinsky, J., and N. A. Phillips. (1978). Scientific problems of the Global Weather Experiment. In The Global Weather Experiment, Perspectives on Its Implementation and Exploitation, Report of the FGGE Advisory Panel to the U.S. Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Program, Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Research Council. National Academy of Science, 13-21.

Smagorinsky, J. (1979). Overview of the climate modelling problem. GARP Publication Series, 22, 1-12.

Smagorinsky, J. (1980). Climate modelling. In Proceedings of the Technical Conference on Climate - Asia and Western Pacific, WMO No., 578, World Meteorological Organization (WMO); 139-151.

Smagorinsky, J. (1981). CO2 and climate - a continuing story. In Climatic Variations and Variability: Facts and Theories, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 661-687.

Smagorinsky, J. (1981). Epilogue: A perspective of dynamical meteorology. In Dynamical Meteorology, New York: Methuen, Inc., 205-219.

Smagorinsky, J. (1981). Some thoughts on contemporary global climatic variability. In Nature Pleads Not Guilty, An IFIAS Report on the Project on Drought and Man, Vol. 1, R. V. Garcia. New York: Pergamon Press; 265-296.

Smagorinsky, J. (1982). Scientific basis for the Monsoon Experiment. In Proceedings of International Conference on the Scientific Results of the Monsoon Experiment, ICSU/WMO GARP. 35-42.

Smagorinsky, J., L. Armi, F. P. Bretherton, K. Bryan, R. D. Cess, W. L. Gates, J. Hansen, J. E. Kutzbach, and S. Manabe, et al. (1982). CO2 Climate Review Panel. In Carbon Dioxide and Climate: A Second Assessment. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1-72.

Smagorinsky, J. (1982). Large-scale climate modelling and small-scale physical processes. In Land surface processes in atmospheric general circulation models (pp. 3-18). Cambridge Univ. Press.

Smagorinsky, J. (1983). Effects of Climate. Changing Climate, Report of the CO2 Assessment Committee. National Research Council, USA, National Academy Press, USA.

Smagorinsky, J. (1983). Effects of carbon dioxide. Changing Climate, 266-284.

Smagorinsky, J. (1983). The Problem of Climate and Climate Variations, World Climate Programme Publication No. WCP-72, WMO. World Meteorological Organization, 14pp.

Smagorinsky, J. (1985). Prospects of atmospheric modelling and its impacts on weather prediction. In Medium Range Weather Forecasts: The First 10 years, Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary of EMCWF, 97-107.

Smagorinsky, J., Galperin, B., & Orszag, S. (1993). Large eddy simulation of complex engineering and geophysical flows. Evolution of physical oceanography, 3-36.

Historical Reflections On Meteorolgy and Its Organizations

Smagorinsky, J., Ashford, O. M., Singer, S. F., Rockney, V. D., Zipser, E. J., Eddy, A., ... & Rockney, V. D. (1970). The Impact of the Global Atmospheric Research Program on Observing Programs. In Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation: Proceedings of the American Meteorological Society Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, Washington, DC, 10-14 February 1969 (pp. 170-172). American Meteorological Society.

Smagorinsky, J. (1972). The general circulation of the atmosphere. Meteorological Challenges: A History, 3-41.

Smagorinsky, J., 1978: History and progress. In The Global Weather Experiment-Perspective on Its Implementation and Exploitation: A Report of the FGGE Advisory Panel to the U.S. Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) - National Academy of Science, 4-12.

Smagorinsky, J. (1983). The beginnings of numerical weather prediction and general circulation modeling: early recollections. In Advances in geophysics (Vol. 25, pp. 3-37). Elsevier.

Smagorinsky, J. (1986). GARP's objectives in weather prediction. Expectations and realizations. In WMO Proceedings of the International Conference on the Results of the Global Weather Experiment and their Implications for the World Weather Watch, (Vol. 1).

Smagorinsky, J. (1986). The AMS's Continuing Role in Promoting Communications and Setting Standards. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 67(8), 938-938.

Smagorinsky, J. (1991). Development of international climate research. In Strategies for Future Climate Research, Mojib Latif, ed., Hamburg: Max-Planck-Institute fur Meteorologie; 9-18.

Smagorinsky, J. (1991). Climatology's scientific maturity. In Climate in Human Perspective: A tribute to Helmut E. Landsberg (pp. 29-35). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

Smagorinsky, J. (1993). Some historical remarks on the use of non-linear viscosities - 1.1 Introductory remarks. In Large Eddy Simulation of Complex Engineering and Geophysical Flows - Proceedings of an International Workshop in Large Eddy Simulation. Cambridge University Press; 1-34.

Smagorinsky, J. (1995). The growth of dynamic meteorology and numerical weather prediction - some personal reflections. In Canadian Meteorological Memoirs No. 32: Special Symposium on Atmospheric Research in Canada in Honor of Dr. Warren L. Godson's Fifty Years of Public Service,Venkata R. Neralla.. eds., 48-56.

Tributes and Memorials

Smagorinsky, J. (1982). Jule Charney (1917-1981). Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 108(455), 267-269.

Smagorinsky, J. (1986). The Long Range Eye of Jerry Namias. pp. 63-69, In the Namias Symposium book, published by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Smagorinsky, J. (1987). Louis Joseph Battan 1923-1986. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 370-370.

Smagorinsky, J. (1990). Charney as a Bowie Laureate. In The Atmosphere-A Challenge: The Science of Jule Gregory Charney (pp. 145-155). Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society.

Smagorinsky, J. (1991). Frank B. Lipps 1933-1990. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 417-417.

Nierenberg, W., Woodwell, G., & Smagorinsky, J. (2013). Common Sense: Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling. Edited by Robert Hahn and Alistair Ulph. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv, 279.

Book Reviews

Smagorinsky, J. (1962). Review of "Numerical Weather Analysis and Prediction" by Phillip D. Thompson. Mathematics of Computation, 16(80), 503-505.

Smagorinsky, J. (1965). Review of "An introduction to the hydrodynamic methods of short period forecasting" by I. A. Kibel. Mathematics of Computation, 19(89), 162-163.

Smagorinsky, J. (1984). Review of "The Global Climate" by J. T. Houghton, ed., Cambridge University Press. WMO Bulletin, 33, 361-362.

Smagorinsky, J. (1986). Review of "Prophet--or Professor? The life and work of Lewis Fry Richardson" by Oliver M. Ashford and Adam Hilger. EOS, 67(3), 28.