| Reference number | EC/1962/20 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVII, 49; A06327 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Sawyer, John Stanley: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Certificate of Election |
| Citation | Mr. Sawyer is recognised as a leader in meteorological research, both in this country and abroad. With F.H. Bushby he devised the well-known 'baroclinic' model for numerical forecasting, using electronic computation, which is rightly regarded as a landmark in this difficult subject. His work on the characteristics of fronts is one of the few successful attempts to deal quantitatively with the dynamics (as distinct from the kinematices) of these important phenomena. He has done markedly original work on dynamical similarity in meteorology and his recent numerical calculations of air flow over mountains are believed to be the first realistic computations of their kind. In addition, he has contributed much to the detailed analysis of the salient features of large-scale atmospheric disturbances, including studies of the rainfall of depressions, the behavious of the tropopause, and the cloud systems associated with fronts. His work is characteristic of the younger school of dynamical meteorologists, and is doing much to make meteorology a more exact science than hitherto. |
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge: Proposer - O G Sutton; Seconder - R C Sutcliffe; David Brunt; G M B Dobson; E Gold; George C simpson
From General Knowledge; J Proudman; Harold Jeffreys; G K Batchelor |
| Access status | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA4980 | Sawyer; John Stanley (1916 - 2000) | 1916 - 2000 |