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05070aam a2200613 i 4500 001 BCF9C7284F2711EB9A63D65926ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210105012357 008 200217s2020 txua b 001 0aeng 010 $a 2020007520 020 $a 1623498678 020 $a 9781623498672 035 $a (OCoLC)1128431206 040 $a TXA/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCL $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a QC858.N67 $b N67 2020 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a North, Gerald R. $e author. 245 14 $a The rise of climate science : $b a memoir / $c Gerald R. North. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a College Station : $b Texas A&M University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a viii, 306 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Appalachian origins -- University and Oak Ridge days -- The love of physics and more -- Woods Hole and paleoclimatology -- Tashkent and glaciers -- Leningrad summer, 1977 -- Camelot: NASA/Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres -- Adventures of a government scientist -- Traveling salesman for Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission -- Return to academe: last stop -- Texas A&M University and academics -- Geezer gigs -- The future climate -- Summing up -- Epilogue. 520 $a "In a career spanning four decades, Gerald R. North contributed groundbreaking research that continues to shape the modern field of climate science. However, the route he has taken was full of surprising twists and turns that included hate mail, eavesdropping by the KGB, and sometimes acrimonious debate with climate-change deniers. Ten years into a successful career as a physicist and professor, North made the unorthodox decision to change course and become a climate scientist. Since that pivotal decision, North's significant contributions to the field include his innovative "toy model" analysis of climate change based on ingeniously simplified models and his lead proposal for and successful approval of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. Launched in 1997, the TRMM's purpose was to collect data on the global climate system. The TRMM operated successfully for 17 years before it was deactivated in 2015. In The Rise of Climate Science, North recounts in detail his life in the vanguard of modern climate science. He offers an insider look at the academic research and government initiatives around global warming and what that means for the planet. He includes stories of conversations with top Soviet climate scientists at the height of the Cold War in the late 1970s-complete with clandestine electronic surveillance. He also describes the experience of testifying before Congress and engaging in public exchanges with those who doubted the reality of the phenomenon his research field described. Climate science today has advanced into a mature phase, combining global observations ranging from paleoclimate data retrieval to measurements of Earth's properties from space vehicles with field programs in the most remote parts of the planet and the continuously evolving power of supercomputers and simulations. As North notes, the give and take among observation, experiment, and theory via modeling are alive and constantly advancing our understanding."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a North, Gerald R. 610 20 $a Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission $x History. 610 27 $a Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00648423 650 0 $a Climatologists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a College teachers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Climatology $x History. 650 0 $a Global warming $x Research $z United States. 650 0 $a Climatic changes $x International cooperation. $x International cooperation. 650 0 $a Global warming $x Political aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Global warming $x Government policy $x Government policy $z United States. 650 7 $a Climatic changes $x International cooperation. $x International cooperation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00864263 650 7 $a Climatologists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00864280 650 7 $a Climatology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00864281 650 7 $a College teachers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00868114 650 7 $a Global warming $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00943523 650 7 $a Global warming $x Research. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00943526 650 7 $a Global warming $x Government policy. $x Government policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00943528 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919894 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210105040424.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BCF9C7284F2711EB9A63D65926ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search