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Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
Phone: 541-737-2165
Email: archives@oregonstate.edu
Web:
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives
RG
167
Oregon
State University. Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences.
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Records
1968-1991
1.25 cubic feet
The Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Records document climate research and graduate programs in atmospheric sciences
at Oregon State University.
Materials in English.
Historical Note:
The Department of Atmospheric Sciences was established in 1969 within
the School (now College) of Science to emphasize coursework and research on air
pollution control, atmospheric chemistry and biometeorology. The first degree
programs were graduate level only. Wendell Hewson was the first department
chair. In 1992 the department was merged with the College of Oceanography (the
latter then became the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences).
The Climatic Research Institute was established in 1976 in order to help
meet the "need for coordinated and intensified climatic research." In 1978 CRI
received a National Science Foundation Grant of $225,000 to participate in an
international effort to monitor world weather patterns. W. Lawrence Gates was
the director of CRI from its establishment until it was disbanded in 1989.
Subgroup 1 includes files pertaining to graduate student policies and to
the purchase/donation of a scientific library to the department. The Climatic
Research Institute (CRI) Subgroup contains five series. The first series
consists of 73 research reports produced by CRI between 1978 and 1989. Series
two is a 1981 grant proposal to the National Science Foundation. Series three
includes general files pertaining to CRI's administration, programs, visitors,
and special events. Series four consists of newspaper clippings about CRI.
Series five consists of monthly and yearly weather summaries and climatological
data for Corvallis, Oregon.
Organized into two subgroups: 1. Departmental Records; and 2. Climatic
Research Institute Records.
Department of Atmospheric Sciences Records (RG 167), Oregon State
University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
The OSU Archives holdings also include Atmospheric Sciences Department
photographs (P 138) and publications (PUB 346). Other materials about the
department are included in the Memorabilia Collection (MC - Atmospheric
Sciences Dept. and MC - Weather, Station, OSU).
Gates, W.
Lawrence (William Lawrence), 1928-
Oregon State University. Climatic Research Institute.
Oregon State University. Climatic Research Institute.
Meteorology--Research--Oregon.
Meteorology--Study and
teaching--Oregon.
Oregon
Colleges and
Universities
Science
Subgroup 1
Departmental Records
1968-1991
1
Series I
Graduate Student Policies and
Information
1990-1991
1
Series II
Department
Library
1968-1979
Subgroup 2
Climatic Research Institute
Records
1978-1989
Series I
Research Reports
1978-1989
1
List of Reports (number,
title, author, date)
1
Reports 1-72
1
Research on Modeling the
Oceanic General Circulation and the Surface Mixed Layer, Final
Technical Report for NSF Grant OCE-76-80182
September 1979
Series II
Research Grant
Proposals
1981
1
A Proposal for Research on
the Dynamics of Climate, 1 March, 1982-28 February 1985, Submitted to
the National Science Foundation
December 1981
Series III
General Files
1976-1988
2
Atmospheric Sciences -
Computer
1985-1987
2
Climate
Colloquium
1977
2
CRI Report Distribution
List
Nov. 1988
2
CRI Staff
Meetings
1982-1984
2
CRI-General
1976-1986
2
Departmental
Correspondence
1978-1982
2
Move to Strand Ag.
Hall
1987
2
NOAA Experimental Climate
Forecast Program
1979
2
OSU Real-Time Weather
Reporting Network
1983
2
Requests for State
Climate Information
1983
2
Sergin-Aleksandrov
1978
2
Statement of Knowledge of
C02-Climate Problem
August 1979
Visitors
2
Aleksandrov,
Vladimir
1982-1986
2
Qiu,
Guoqing
1984
2
Santer,
Ben
1985-1986
2
Wigley,
Tom
1985
2
Zhao,
Zong-ci
1985
Working Group on
Numerical Experimentation (WGNE), Meeting in Corvallis
Oct. 1980
2
Meeting
Planning
2
Meeting
Report
2
Series IV
Newspaper
Clippings
1978-1987
2
Series V
Weather Summary and Local
Climatological Data for Corvallis, Oregon
1982-1989