Thread: Gordon Manley
View Single Post
  #25   Report Post  
Old June 8th 06, 10:07 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
John Hall John Hall is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by Weather-Banter: Nov 2003
Posts: 6,314
Default Gordon Manley

In article .com,
Waghorn writes:
Thanks for incorporating the changes, the whole thing reads well.


Thanks.

I
guess Manley will always be remembered as the ' CET man ', despite the
Dun fell period.
The reason why I was so keen on the helm wind point is that I think
Manley probably belongs to that tradition in British
meteorology/hydrodynamics, (many trained at Cambridge), whose knowledge
was based in practice/engineering/observations but made fundamental
theoretical contributions based on such, eg. Richardson, G I Taylor,
...........


I've added an External Links section, so that I could include a link to
this excellent description of his work at Moor House:

http://www.ecn.ac.uk/ecnnews/ecnnews6/ecnews67.html


Really, somebody shld write a biography of Manley...........


Not me!
--
John Hall

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)