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Undoubtedly, the legacy of John Russell Mather is inextricably linked to his pioneering research with the climatic water balance and his extensive collaborations with Charles Warren Thornthwaite. What is not as well known is that Mather's research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Bachelor's of Science degree in 1947 and a Master's of Science degree in 1948, was equally pioneering. Under the tutelage of James M Austin, Mather's research focused on the examination of storm trajectories using weather radar—a newly discovered meteorological remote sensing tool. This research, an inherently spatial problem of assessing storm cell size and movement, was both innovative and an appropriate melding of geography and meteorology. |
