'Photocopy of significant extracts from a very important file of notes by L.F.R. for possible second edition of "Weather Prediction by Numerical Process"
Scope and Contents
Notes and Drafts is comprised of notes and designs for meteorological instruments, 1916-20; notes on visits to Bergen, 1920-21, and Danzig, 1939; drafts on psychology, 1940s; lectures on differential equations; notes on experiments on angular motion; and notes on 'The geostrophic wind', 'Dynamical meteorology', and 'Barometric gradient and wind speed'.
Creator
- From the Fonds: Richardson, Lewis Fry, 1881-1953 (mathematician and pacifist) (Person)
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Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Chree, Charles, 1860-1928 (astronomer) (Person)
- Dines, William Henry, 1855-1927 (Meteorologist) (Person)
- Jeffreys, Sir Harold, 1891-1989 (Knight, geophysicist) (Person)
- Lamb, Hubert Horace, 1913-1997 (meteorologist) (Person)
- Simpson, Sir George Clarke, 1878-1965 (Knight, meteorologist) (Person)
- Sutcliffe, Reginald Cockcroft, 1904-1991 (meteorologist) (Person)
- Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram, 1886-1975 (Knight, physicist) (Person)
- Shaw, Sir William Napier, 1854-1945 (Knight, meteorologist) (Person)
- Whipple, Francis John Welsh, 1876-1943 (meteorologist) (Person)
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