Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

Joseph Smagorinsky  

Definition

  • AMERICAN METEOROLOGIST AND the first director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Joseph Smagorinsky developed influential methods for predicting weather and climate conditions and lectured at Princeton for many years. With his decision to move the GFDL to Princeton, Smagorinsky made the university a leading center for the study of global warming.Joseph Smagorinsky was born to Nathan Smagorinsky and Dina Azaroff. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change; Smagorinsky, Joseph (1924–2005)]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Joseph_Smagorinsky

Download this concept: