William Welch Kellogg

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William Welch Kellogg (February 14, 1917 – December 12, 2007) was an American

prediction
.

Biography

Kellogg was born in

B-25s
into the heart of the storms.

Weather satellites

After the war, while working on a PhD from

satellites in meteorological research. His 1951 research paper (written with S. M. Greenfield)[2] introduced many of the concepts still in use today, including the effects of Earth's oblate shape, which is now exploited to produce solar synchronous satellites for weather observation and other forms of remote sensing. He chaired the committee that set the specifications for TIROS-1
, the first operational weather satellite.

Later work

He also collaborated on a procedure to predict close-in

Geneva, Switzerland
in 1978–79, where he was advisor to the Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization. In 1981, he and sociologist Robert Schware co-authored one of the first books on the subject of climate change. He retired from NCAR in 1987.

Positions held

He served on the National Academy of Science's Space Science Board (teaming with Carl Sagan to review our knowledge of the atmospheres of Mars and Venus), the Atmospheric Science Committee, and the Polar Research Board. He also served on the President's Science Advisory Committee, the USAF Scientific Advisory Committee, and the NASA Space Program Advisory Council.

He was Past President of the American Meteorological Society (1973) and the Meteorology Section of the American Geophysical Union. He was a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union.

Selected writings

References

Further reading