'Dishpan science' explains mysteries of atmosphere
Meteorologists use a simple dime store kitchen utensil—a dishpan—to study the circulation of the atmosphere!
Edward N. Lorenz, Sigma Xi national science lecturer for 1966, spoke to the KU chapter of the society Friday about "dishpan experiments" which use a dishpan of water on a turntable to simulate the flow of air currents. Meteorologists study what types of circulation patterns will form to account for the types of air flow patterns which have already been observed in nature.
Lorenz, professor of meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used slides to illustrate the various types of circular air movements. The total view of air currents is really composed of different scales of circulation patterns, Lorenz said.
"The TORNADO, which is very familiar to midwest inhabitants, is, in one sense, an atmospheric rarity. As an example of a small-scale circulation pattern, a tornado is relatively unimportant in the total circulation system. The chances of it occurring are about one in a trillion," he explained.
Waterspouts and "dust-devils" are more important than tornados to the meteorologist because they are more frequent, he said. Other slides showed radar views and Tiros V satellite photographs of hurricanes, tropical storms and valley fog patterns.
Lorenz also discussed the implications of his studies for future weather forecasting. His research includes simulation, in rotating tanks, of global air currents, as well as of smaller scale disturbances such as the storms that affect the day-to-day weather. He has also simulated the circulation of the atmosphere by use of electronic computers.
"Accurate five-day weather forecasts may be possible in the future, but it is doubtful that meteorologists will be able to accurately forecast the weather 30 days in advance." Lorenz said. "So far, there is no machine large enough to compute accurate predictions that far in advance."
HOWEVER, WEATHER satellites orbiting the earth significantly add to the accuracy of weather forecasting, he said. Satellites provide visual cloud pictures, transmit infra-red measurements as to temperatures and observe regions presently unobserved by meteorologists.
Lorenz's visit to KU is part of a lecture tour that includes seven states.
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Daily Kansan Monday, March 28, 1966
Local hero given U.S. Flying Cross
A Lawrence soldier stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, has been awarded the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism in Viet Nam.
Capt. Richard M. Hogan flew through heavy Viet Cong fire to lend air support to a company of Marines pinned down without reinforcement, March 31, 1965.
Official Bulletin
Foreign Students; Sign up in People's
People office; Sign up in Kansas City; major
league baseball game, zoo visit and
first day of school. First
do who sign up will be taken.
Peace Corps Director of Training Programs scheduled for Summer, 66. Available from P.C. laison officer, 228 Strong.
TODAY
Coffee-Forum, 5.30 p.m. Dr. Robert
Cockburn, M.D., at 206 W. 49th St.
Picasso,
Museum of Art, Auditorium.
Ph.D. Exam, 3:30 p.m. Edward T. Haugan, chemical engineering, 124 University of Chicago
Lecture, 4:30 p.m. Dr. Lof Storf
musicology, Ud. of Oslo,
Norway. Eindley Aud.
American Society Class, 7 p.m.
Father Moriarty, St. John's. 330 Mu.
Student Peace Union Open Meeting,
7:30 p.m. Union.
"Man and the World" Informal Discourse
Jacobie Abeloves B. C. Union. Everyone invited.
Lecture. 8 p.m. Masao Abe, Column
Buddin Buddhism Jayhawk
Room, Union
TOMORROW
Protestant Worship: 7 a.m. and 9:15
p.m. Wesley Foundation Methodist
Lecture, 3:30 p.m. Masso Abe, Cochin
Church, Parish of the Archdiocese and
Christianity, Ducie Auditorium.
Lecture, 4 p.m. Nelson Algren,
novelist. Big Eight Room, Union.
Duplicate Bridge, 7 p.m. 306 W.
Kansas Union.
Tau Sigma Honorary Dance Fraternity 7:30 p.m.
Robinson Gymnasium.
Christian Science Organization, 7:30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
Humanities Lecture, 8 p.m. Dr. Robert Rosenblum, Princeton, on painting. Illustrated. University Theatre. Reception following by Faculty Club.
A DEBATE ...
MARTIN-ANDERSON
VS.
RADER-DARVILLE
Tuesday, March 29, 1966
in the Forum Room.
Teacher to serve in Peru
J. Eugene Fox, associate professor of botany at KU, will be on leave during April to serve the Institute for International Education as a consultant in biology at San Marcos University in Lima, Peru.
At San Marcos, the oldest university in the western hemisphere, Prof. Fox will help the department of basic sciences set up a program in modern biology at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He will advise on the purchase of books and counsel on research.
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