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Other Interesting Information: 

  
Where were they at the time of GATE? 

What did they do in GATE?

-B.S.E. Princeton University, 1958 (Aeronautical Engineering)  

-M.S. Florida State University, 1960 (Meteorology) 

-Ph.D. Florida State University, 1965 (Meteorology) 

Tropical meteorology 

Chief scientist for U.S. participation in GATE. 

He was the lead scientist for Convection and NASA Aircraft in TOGA COARE 

NOAA Award for Outstanding Contributins to [GATE] 1975 

Special Award, AMS, 1977, for "Outstanding Contributions and Leadership in [GATE]", 1997 

Zipser, E. J., and M. A. LeMone, 1980: Cumulonimbus vertical velocity events in GATE. Part II: Synthesis and model core structure. J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 2458-2469 

Barnes, G. M., E. J. Zipser, D. Jorgensen, and F. Marks, Jr., 1983: Mesoscale and convective structure of a hurricane rainband. J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 2125-2137 

NCAR 

Cloud-Cluster-Scale Phenomena Including Undisturbed Conditions: Clouds and Convection in the GATE, 12 September Case Study 

(Zipser, 1998) 

(National Science Foundation, 1977)