Dr. Joseph Smagorinsky's team
at the Environmental Sciences
Service Administration in Washington
D.C. worked out the mathematical
problems designed to simulate real
weather patterns in the earth's
atmosphere. The program gives the
viewer an idea of the immense amount
of work involved in collecting weather
data all over the world, applying
complex mathematical formulas to
this data, working out the formulas
with the help of the computers of the
1960's, and comparing the
mathematically produced maps to
actual weather maps for the same
area and time period.

Possible application to weather control
and long-range forecasting are suggested.

Dr. Smagorinsky founded the Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in 1955 and
received the Gold Medal Award in 1966
from the National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration.