Richard T. Wetherald
Research Meteorologist, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA, Princeton,NJ.
Richard T. Wetherald was born in Plainfield, New Jersey on March 28, 1938. In 1962 he graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science degree, and the following year his Masters degree, also from Michigan.
Richard T. Wetherald was first employed (1963-64) at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, MD designing numerical weather prediction algorithms to be applied to a parallel processing computer prototype. From 1964 to the present, he has been a Research Meteorologist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA, Princeton, N.J. His chief area of expertise is greenhouse warming of climate, and he has written or co-authored many scientific papers on this subject. He is also active in various educational outreach programs in the local area involving both elementary and middle schools with regard to both weather and astronomy.
In 1967, working with Syukuro Manabe, he published the first credible computer modeling calculation which showed that a doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide would warm the earth's surface by about 2
° C. This intern was the start of what would become future research and extensive discussions on global warming of the earth.In 1997, he co-authored three articles entitled Transient Response of a Coupled Model to Estimated Changes in Greenhouse Gas and Sulfate Concentrations, Geophysical Research Letters, 24 (11), 1335-1338., GCM Simulated East Asian Winter Monsoon: Results from Eight AMIP Models, PCMDI Report No. 39, 49 pp. and Comparison of the Seasonal Change in Cloud-Radiative Forcing from Atmospheric General Circulation Models and Satellite Observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102 (D14), 16,593 - 16,603.
Mr. Wetherald is a member of the American Meteorological Society, the IPCC Contributor and Reviewer, Working Group 1, Sections 4,5 and a DOE member and Contributor, GCM Intercomparison Group, 1987.
