UChicago’s meteorology program shaped the field of climate and weather prediction
Ever since the Wright Brothers called up the weather bureau to find the right place to launch the world’s first plane ride in 1903, pilots and meteorologists have been in a symbiotic relationship. Pilots benefited from weather forecasting for safety and efficiency, and in return, instrument-outfitted aircraft could collect data not available from the ground.
By 1940, Swedish meteorologist and émigré Carl-Gustaf Rossby was the most prominent proponent in America for investigating the upper atmosphere. Rossby led the conversion of weather research from a descriptive to a predictive science by applying the laws of physics and mathematical modeling. When he became the first head of the University of Chicago Institute of Meteorology, the appointment ushered in two crucial decades when the University helped shape the developing field.
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The $1.6 billion hall will serve as a waiting room for Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road passengers. | Erin Durkin/POLITICO
Moynihan Train Hall set to open in New York
NEW YORK Moynihan Train Hall, an annex to Manhattan s much-reviled Penn Station, will open to the public on New Year’s Day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday as he cut a ribbon for the new facility.
The $1.6 billion hall, in the old James A. Farley Post Office Building across Eighth Avenue from the main station and Madison Square Garden, will serve as a waiting room for Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road passengers.