A Tribute in the Clouds: A Father's Legacy

摘要

"Einstein bounced me on his knee when I was a rnsmall child. I don't have a memory of it, but I am rntold he was a very nice man," said Nora Charney Rosenbaum. Nora's family had come to Princeton rnUniversity in the summer of 1948 so that her father, Jule Charney, could join some of the greatest thinkers of the day at the Institute for Advanced Study. rn"Those were very exciting times. It was a heady mix of people and ideas, not just in science, but in different disciplines," remarked Nora. But in the late 1940s, much of that brainpower was focused on a problem many considered to be the most highly non linear, interactive, and complex ever thought of-weather forecasting. By then, Charney had already developed equations of atmospheric motion that were to be the basis for numerical weather prediction, but the computing power was just coming of age.