History

The following publications, conferences, and workshops relate to the development and activities of the Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Technical Committee and its predecessors. Some of the publications can be obtained at the AMS Journals Online website at http://journals.ametsoc.org.

 

September 2011 Vaughan, W. W., and D. L. Johnson: Aerospace meteorology: some lessons learned from the development and application of NASA terrestrial environment design criteria. Bull. Amer. Meteor., 92, 1149-1157.
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2011BAMS3133.1
July 2001 McCarthy, John, 2001: meeting summary: The Aviation Weather Forecasting Task Force Reunion. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, 1415-1422
September 11-15, 2000 Ninth Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology (Sand, Vaughan, Boyd, Ehernberger, Harms, Pearson, Politovich, Rodenhuis, Sankey, Whitefield) Co-Sponsored with AIAA Atmospheric Environment Technical Committee, Orlando, Florida
January 10-15, 1999 Eighth Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology (Sankey, Adang, Albersheim, Cairns, Ernst, Fahey, Sherretz), Dallas, Texas
February 2-7, 1997 Seventh Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology (Sherretz, Carney, Meyer, Sankey, Sinclair), Long Beach, California
January 15-20, 1995 Sixth Conference on Aviation Weather Systems (Henderson, Sherretz, Meyer, Sand), Co-sponsors AIAA Atmospheric Environment Technical Committee, International Civil Aviation Organization, World Meteorological Organization, Dallas, Texas
August 1-6, 1993 Fifth International Conference on Aviation Weather Systems (Poellot, Henderson, Heuwinkel), Co-sponsors World Meteorological Organization, National Weather Association, Vienna, Virginia
June 24-28, 1991 Fourth International Conference on Aviation Weather Systems (Wagoner, Clyne, Heuwinkel, Miner, Glickman, Ladd, Moore, Goas, Madura, Poellot, Goff, MdGinley, Travers), Paris, France
January 29-February 3, 1989 Third International Conference on the Aviation Weather System (McCarthy, Heckman, Stith, Clyne, MacDonald, Travers, Ernst, McLeod, Waagoner, Goff, Sand, Wilson, Gross, Smith), Anaheim, California
June 19-21, 1985 Second International Conference on the Aviation Weather System (Sand, Kelley, Nancoo, Cramer, MacDonald, Uecker, Froeschl, Mandel, Young, Gross, McCarthy, Zak, Hinkelman, Mason), Montreal, Canada
May 4-6, 1981 International Conference on the Aviation Weather System, Co-sponsored by AMS Committee on Aviation Meteorology, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, National Weather Association, International Civil Aviation Organization), Montreal, Canada
November 14-16, 1978 Conference on Atmospheric Environment of Aerospace Systems and Applied Meteorology, Cosponsored by AMS Committee on Meteorological Aspects of Aerospace Systems, AMS Committee on Weather Forecasting and Analysis, AIAA Technical Committee on Atmospheric Environment (Vaughan, Flattery, Meyer, Daniel, Kays, Scoggins, Dvoskin), New York, N. Y.
October 16-19, 1978 Seventh Conference on Weather Forecasting and Analysis and Eighth Conference on Aeronautical Meteorology, Silver Spring, Maryland
May 31-June 2, 1978 Meteorological Symposium on Remote Sounding of the Atmosphere from Space, Cosponsored with COSPAR, Innsbruck, Austria
April 10-14, 1978 Fourth Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, Denver, Colorado
November 1977 BAMS Issue. Three articles:
Aeronautical Meteorology: Progress and Challenges---Today and Tomorrow (Bromley)
Airport Weather Service: Some Future Trends (Beran et al.)
Automation---Some Potential Applications to Aviation Weather (Lindquist)
December 1976 BAMS Issue. Article on Aerospace Operations (Daniel)
November 16-19, 1976 Seventh Conference on Aerospace and Aeronautical Meteorology and Symposium on Remote Sensing from Satellites, Cosponsored by AMS and AIAA, Melbourne, Florida
June 8-10, 1976 Symposium on Meteorological Observations from Space, Philadelphia, Pa.
February 10-13, 1975 Third Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, Washington, D.C.
November 12-15, 1974 Sixth Conference on Aerospace and Aeronautical Meteorology (Webb, Frost, Good, Moreland, Pieriuissi), Cosponsored by the AMS and AIAA, El Paso, Texas
September 30-Oct. 4, 1974 Conference on the Upper Atmosphere, Atlanta, Ga.
July 8-10, 1974 Second International Conference on the Environmental Impact of Aerospace Operations in the High Atmosphere (Collis, Romo, Luna), San Diego, California
June 11-13, 1973 International Conference on Environmental Impact of Aerospace Operations in the High Atmosphere, Cosponsored by the AIAA and AMS (Collis, Bortner, London), Denver, Colorado
May 22-26, 1972 International Conference on Aerospace and Aeronautical Meteorology (Quiroz, Romo) Cosponsored by AMS Committee on Aeronautical Meteorological Problems (Lieurance), AMS Committee on Atmospheric Problems of Aerospace Vehicles (Bundgaard), and AIAA Committee on Atmospheric Environment (Collis), Washington, D.C.
April 1972 BAMS Issue. Report of the Committee on Aeronautical Meteorological Problems by Lieurance who suggested that the Committee be formed to focus on needs of aeronautics.
March 27-30, 1972 Second Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, San Diego, California
May 24-26, 1971 Joint Conference on Aeronautical Meteorology with the French Meteorological Service (Fletcher, Laufer, Lilly, Goldman, Beckwith, Silverman, Reiter, Lacy, Paulsen), Paris, France
January 1971 BAMS Issue. Action noted by AMS Council on October 22, 1970 to establish a Committee on Aeronautical Meteorological Problems.
September 1970 BAMS Issue. Article on Progress in Aerospace Meteorology and Review of Atmospheric Consideration for the Space Shuttle (Vaughan and Smith)
August 1970 BAMS Issue. Charter of the Committee on Atmospheric Problems of Aerospace Vehicles presented. Aerospace Vehicles defined as including balloons, aircraft, rockets, missiles, and spacecraft. Atmospheric Problems defined as involving interactions of planetary atmospheres with aerospace vehicle operations.
June 15-18, 1970 Symposium on the Dynamics of the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere, Boulder, Colorado
May 4-7, 1970 Fourth National Conference on Aerospace Meteorology (Sissenwine, Vaughan, Gleeson, Charak, Hull, Handman, Kantor, Martin, Romo), Las Vegas, Nevada
December 1969 BAMS Issue. Referenced proposal for new AMS Committee on Aeronautical Meteorology, a subject covered by the Committee on Atmospheric Problems of Aerospace Vehicles in past. Was deferred to STAC to investigate need.
February 10-14, 1969 Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation (Cunningham, Johnson, Nou, Ruskin, Vaughan, Ringenbach, Rockney), Washington, D.C.
November 6-8, 1968 Conference on Composition and Dynamics of the Upper Atmosphere (Morris, Bolen, Jetton, Webb, Williamson), El Paso, Texas
May 6-9, 1968 Third National Conference on Aerospace Meteorology (Vaughan, O'Bryan, Earnshaw, Hildreth, Kuettner, Sissenwine, Smith), Cosponsored by AMS Committee on Atmospheric Problems of Aerospace Vehicles and AIAA Atmospheric Environment Technical Committee, New Orleans, La.
May 31-June 2, 1967 Symposium on Meteorological Investigations Above 70 Kilometers, Miami Beach, Florida
March 29-31, 1967 Conference on High Altitude Meteorology and Space Weather, Houston, Texas
January 23-26, 1967 Joint Session by AMS Committee on Atmospheric Problems of Aerospace Vehicles and AIAA Atmospheric Environment Technical Committee at the 47th AMS Annual Meeting, New York, N. Y.
November 8-10, 1966 Fourth Conference on the High Atmosphere: Dynamic Structure of the Free Atmosphere (Jehn, Vestine, Hines, Johnson, Kellogg, Champion)-Conference focused attention of Meteorological Rocket Network on High Atmosphere issues, El Paso, Texas
March 28-31, 1966 Sixth National Conference on Applied Meteorology (Aerospace Meteorology) Cosponsored with the AIAA Atmospheric Environment Technical Committee, Los Angles, Calif.
July 26-29, 1965 Symposium on Advanced Atmospheric Measuring Systems at Second AIAA Annual Meeting, Cosponsored by AMS Committee on Atmospheric Problems of Aerospace Vehicles and AIAA Atmospheric Environment Technical Committee (Fletcher, Kuettner), San Francisco, Calif.
June 1965 BAMS Issue. Year long stratospheric humidity research program by AFCRL from Chico, Calif. (Sissenwine, Grantham, Salmela, Cowne)
January 1965 BAMS Issue. Item on Status of Jimsphere Development by Scoggins, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
March 1964 BAMS Issue Referenced Proposed Statement on Meteorology and Aerospace Vehicles prepared by the AMS Committee on Atmospheric Problems of Aerospace Vehicles and AIAA Atmospheric Environment Technical Committee. Statement published in June 1964 BAMS Issue
March 2-6, 1964 Fifth Conference on Applied Meteorology: Atmospheric Problems of Aerospace Vehicles (Hilsenrod, Sissenwine, Berry, Swingle), Atlantic City, New Jersey
November 19-21, 1963 Conference on Stratosphere-Mesosphere Structure, Cosponsored with AIAA, (Jenkins, Tolefson, Johnson, Christensen, Carr, Smith), El Paso, Texas
July 10-12, 1963 Specialists Meeting on Meteorology in Support of Aerospace Testing and Operations, Joint Meeting with AIAA (Harrison, Tepper, Fletcher, Simpson, Reiter, Haurwitz, Allison), Fort Collins, Colo.
May 1963 BAMS Issue Reference to AIAA Committee on Atmospheric Environment (Riehl, Betts, Charles, Fletcher, Harrison, Kuettner, Reiter, Simpson, Singer, Tepper, Webb)
September 10-14, 1962 Fourth Conference on Applied Meteorology (Lea, Henry, Hustead, Thompson), Hampton, Va.
August 7-9, 1962 Low Level Wind Conference with the U. S. Army Signal Missile Support Agency, El Paso and Dallas, Texas
December 5-6, 1961 Conference on Status of Meteorological Rocketry, El Paso, Texas
November 8-11, 1960 Fourth conference on Applied Meteorology, Atlanta, Ga.
April 5-8, 1960 Third Conference on Applied Meteorology (Frank, Crow, Orville, Malone, Elliott, Berry, Dennis), Santa Barbara, Calif.
October 1959 BAMS Issue, Committee on the Upper Atmosphere and Satellite Exploration (Haurwitz, Bellamy, Goody, Greenberg, Holzman, Kellogg, Roberts, Shapiro, Suomi, Whipple)
Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 1959 Conference on Stratospheric Meteorology, Minneapolis, Minn.
January 1959 BAMS Issue made reference to statement of the Committee on the Upper Atmosphere and Satellite Exploration and Air Pollution Committee being referred to Committee (Austin, Craig, Fleagle, Landsburg, Bellamy) for consideration as BAMS publication.
October 14-16, 1958 First National Conference on the High Atmosphere (Barnes, Brooks, Fugate, Schumaker, Sherburne, Thompson, Webb), El Paso, Texas
September 9-11, 1958 Second Conference on Applied Meteorology, Ann Arbor, Mich.
October 28-29, 1957 Workshop on Applied Meteorology, Hartford, Conn.
October 8-10, 1957 National conference on Upper Air of the American Meteorological Society (Stapowich, Franklin, Sipple, Sorenson, Wilcox), Omaha, Neb.
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June 1930 Henry, A. J., 1930: Aviation Weather Hazards. Mon. Wea. Rev., 58, 231-234.
May 1930 Humphreys, W. J., 1930: Meteorology and its Importance to Aviation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 58, 196-197.
December 1928 Gregg, W. R., 1928: Commercial Airways Weather Service -- Present Status and Future Prospects. Mon. Wea. Rev., 56, 505-509. http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/056/mwr-056-12-0505.pdf
April 1921 Dobson, G., 1921: Meteorology in the Service of Aviation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 49, 239-239.
August 1917 Dines, W. H., 1917: Meteorology and Aviation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 45, 401-401.