Atmospheric Sciences Department Records (RG 167)
1968-1991
1.25 cubic feet

Scope and Content Note

Organized into two subgroups: 1. Departmental Records; and 2. Climatic Research Institute Records.

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.


New Accession, 2001

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 pf CRI from its establishment until it was disbanded in 1989.


Related Materials

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).


Shelf Locations:

5/1/02/20-30

Inventory 

                   Subgroup One, Departmental Records

(box 5/1/02/20)
I.   Graduate Student Policies and Information, 1990-1991

II.  Department Library, 1968-1979


            Subgroup Two, Climatic Research Institute Records

I.   Research Reports, 1978-1989:
          List of Reports (number, title, author, date)
          Reports 1-72
          "Research on Modeling the Oceanic General Circulation          
            and the Surface Mixed Layer," Final Technical Report for
            NSF Grant OCE-76-80182, September 1979

II.  Research Grant Proposals:
          "A Proposal for Research on the Dynamics of Climate, 1 March
            1982-28 February 1985," Submitted to the National Science
            Foundation, December 1981

(box 5/1/02/30)
III. General Files, 1976-1988:
          Atmospheric Sciences - Computer, 1985-1987
          Climate Colloquium, 1977
          CRI Report Distribution List, Nov. 1988
          CRI Staff Meetings, 1982-1984
          CRI-General, 1976-1986
          Departmental Correspondence, 1978-1982
          Move to Strand Ag. Hall, 1987
          NOAA Experimental Climate Forecast Program, 1979
          OSU Real-Time Weather Reporting Network, 1983
          Requests for State Climate Information, 1983
          Sergin-Aleksandrov, 1978
          Statement of Knowledge of C02-Climate Problem, August 1979
          Visitors:
               Aleksandrov, Vladimir, 1982-1986
               Qiu, Guoqing, 1984
               Santer, Ben, 1985-1986
               Wigley, Tom, 1985
               Zhao, Zong-ci, 1985
          Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE), Meeting  
            in Corvallis, Oct. 1980:
               Meeting Planning
               Meeting Report

IV.  Newspaper Clippings, 1978-1987 

V.   Weather Summary and Local Climatological Data for Corvallis,
     Oregon, 1982-1989
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