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To: Brumar89 who wrote (14740)	12/7/2009 10:53:18 AM
From: Eric	Respond to of 86356

They do, and it's getting better every year. I used to bump into this guy starting in the late 1970's when I worked on campus in a building next to his. I first met him while I was wiring up KCTS TV's new, state of the art TV remote truck and he was about fifty feet away working on his new "baby", an ultrasonic atmospheric sounder. Cliff had started working at the U at about the same time I did. An interesting story about Cliff was that his faculty advisor while working on his Phd in Atmospheric Science was Carl Sagan! Cliff wanted to go to MIT to finish his degree but Sagan said to him that that would be a mistake. He recommended that he attend the University of Washington instead as he felt the U of W had the best atmospheric dept in the country. While attending some of his lecturers over the years I learned a lot about wx and forecasting. He is still a professor at the U of W and just released a book on weather in the northwest. Cliff has made many breakthroughs in weather forecasting. I remember him complaining about the accuracy of computer forecasting in the early eighties. The best we could resolve was a cell of 36 sq Kilometers in size. Today it's down to less than 4 sq kilometers! artsci.washington.edu artsci.washington.edu cliffmass.blogspot.com