Norm Phillips

Norman A. Phillips
Education PhD The University of Chicago, Department of Meteorology
Occupation Geophysical Fluid Dynamicist

Norman (Norm) Phillips is an American geophysical fluid dynamicist. He is a former director of the National Meteorological Center of NOAA NWS.[1]

His work includes perhaps the first General Circulation Model in 1956,[2] and the Nested Grid Model (NGM) used 1987–2009 in the NWS for operational weather prediction.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/nwp50/Presentations/
  2. ↑ Phillips, Norman A. (April 1956). "The general circulation of the atmosphere: a numerical experiment". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 82 (352): 123–154. Bibcode:1956QJRMS..82..123P. doi:10.1002/qj.49708235202.


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