George W. Platzman

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George W. Platzman

Earth Sciences

#1591

World Rank

#2271

Historical Rank

#431

USA Rank

Meteorology

#191

World Rank

#252

Historical Rank

#60

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, George William Platzman was an American meteorologist, known for his contributions to the study of geophysical fluid dynamics. He is recognized as a pioneer in the field of storm-surge forecasting. Biography Platzman was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 19, 1920. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Chicago, and graduated in 1940. In 1941, he received his master's degree from the University of Arizona and then returned to the University of Chicago, where he taught meteorology to Air Corps cadets during World War II while simultaneously working on his Ph.D. He completed his Ph.D. in 1947. Platzman taught at the University of Chicago for nearly his entire career and was instrumental in advocating for the use of computers to analyze meteorological data.

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George W. Platzman's Published Works

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A table of solutions of the one-dimensional Burgers equation (1972) (311)
THE SPECTRAL FORM OF THE VORTICITY EQUATION (1960) (118)
Normal Modes of the World Ocean. Part II: Description of Modes in the Period Range 8 to 80 Hours (1981) (113)
Two-Dimensional Free Oscillations in Natural Basins (1972) (97)
The ENIAC Computations of 1950—Gateway to Numerical Weather Prediction (1979) (91)
The Dynamical Prediction of Wind Tides on Lake Erie (1963) (91)
The Rossby wave (1968) (82)
a retrospective view of Richardson's book on weather prediction* (1967) (75)
Normal Modes of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans (1975) (62)
Normal Modes of the World Ocean. Part I. Design of a Finite-Element Barotropic Model (1978) (57)
Some response characteristics of finite-element tidal models (1981) (56)
Normal Modes of the World Ocean. Part IV: Synthesis of Diurnal and Semidiurnal Tides (1984) (56)
The Analytical Dynamics of the Spectral Vorticity Equation (1962) (51)
An exact integral of complete spectral equations for unsteady one-dimensional flow (1964) (48)
A PROCEDURE FOR NUMERICAL INTEGRATION OF THE SPECTRAL VORTICITY EQUATION (1961) (45)
Interaction of a hurricane with the steering flow and its effect upon the hurricane trajectory (1963) (38)
Planetary energy balance for tidal dissipation (1984) (37)
Spectra of Lake Erie water levels (1964) (35)
The computational stability of boundary conditions in numerical integration of the vorticity equation (1954) (35)
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH EXTREME WIND TIDES ON LAKE ERIE (1962) (34)
The spectral dynamics of laminar convection (1965) (32)
THE FREE OSCILLATIONS OF LAKE ERIE (1963) (28)
Normal Modes of the World Ocean. Part III: A Procedure for Tidal Synthesis (1984) (27)
THE LATTICE STRUCTURE OF THE FINITE-DIFFERENCE PRIMITIVE AND VORTICITY EQUATIONS† (1958) (23)
The Motion of Barotropic Disturbances in the Upper Troposphere (1949) (23)
THE PREDICTION OF SURGES IN THE SOUTHERN BASIN OF LAKE MICHIGAN (1965) (23)
CALCULATION OF NORMAL MODES OF OCEANS USING A LANCZOS METHOD (1976) (22)
THE INCREASE OR DECREASE OF MEAN-FLOW ENERGY IN LARGE-SCALE HORIZONTAL FLOW IN THE ATMOSPHERE (1952) (19)
The Atmosphere—A Challenge* (1990) (19)
The Atmosphere a Challenge: The Science of Jule Gregory Charney (1990) (18)
The daily variation of water level on Lake Erie (1966) (13)
An observational study of energy balance in the atmospheric lunar tide (1991) (13)
AN APPROXIMATION TO THE PRODUCT OF DISCRETE FUNCTIONS (1961) (11)
World Ocean Tides Synthesized from Normal Modes (1983) (8)
The atmospheric tide as a continuous spectrum: Lunar semidiurnal tide in surface pressure (1988) (8)
The S-1 Chronicle: A Tribute to Bernhard Haurwitz* (1996) (7)
North Atlantic Ocean: Preliminary Description of Normal Modes (1972) (7)
The role of Earth tides in the balance of tidal energy (1985) (5)
Effects of Multiple Connectivity on a Finite-Element Barotropic Model (1979) (5)
Comment on “Greenhouse cooling of the upper atmosphere” (1993) (5)
A Kelvin wave in the eastern North Pacific Ocean (1979) (4)
Some Remarks on High-Speed Automatic Computers and their Use in Meteorology (1952) (4)
Starr's Invariant (1952) (3)
Computation of maximum rainfall in the Willamette Basin (1948) (3)
Report on the International symposium on numerical weather forecasting Oslo, March 11-16, 1963 (1963) (2)
Prophet—Or Professor? the Life and Work of Lewis Fry Richardson. By Oliver M. Ashford. Adam Hilger Ltd, Bristol. 1984, Pp. Xiv + 305. £18.00 (Special Reduced Price For Members of the Royal Meteorological Society. See January Issue Back Cover.) (2007) (2)
Corrigendum: November issue of Tellus 1964 (1965) (1)
Numerical Computation of Wind Tides on Lake Erie (1960) (1)
Broader and deeper (2013) (1)
A descriptive catalogue of early editions of the works of Frédéric Chopin in the University of Chicago Libarary (2003) (1)
[Comment on “Broad‐based programs make the grade”] Broad‐based program has many payoffs (1994) (0)
An Error Estimate for Numerical Prediction of Hurricane Trajectories (1964) (0)
Spectral Modeling of the Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere with an Application to the Quasi-Geostrophic Prediction Equations (1960) (0)
Probability and symbolic logic (1941) (0)
,department of Commerce Monthly Weather Review the Lattice Structure of the Finite-difference Primitive and Vorticity Equations T (2004) (0)
A catalogue of early printed editions of the works of Frédéric Chopin in the University of Chicago Library (1997) (0)
A simple model of the relation between tidal quality and dissipation (1984) (0)

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