HENRY LANSFORD

SCIENCE WRITING

Books and Booklets

Challenges of Our Changing Atmosphere--
Careers in Atmospheric Research and Applied Meteorology,
American Meteorological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1993.
The AMS commissioned this booklet to provide career information
for students. It incorporates many visual images and extended captions
that complement and amplify points that are discussed in the text.

UCAR at 25, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, Colorado, 1985. This informal institutional history of the
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research includes discussions
of some fundamental areas of atmospheric science such as thunderstorms,
atmospheric chemistry, sun-earth connections, global atmospheric
modeling and global change, all written for non-specialist readers.

Living With the Weather, Xerox Educational Publications, Middletown, Connecticut, 1980. This eeducational booklet for middle-school students presents the basic principles of weather and climate and examines how they affect our lives, both directly and indirectly.

The Climate Mandate, with Walter Orr Roberts, W.H. Freeman & Company, San Francisco, 1979. This hardcover book examines the complex interrelationships of climate fluctuation, food production and population growth and their impacts on human life and society.

Articles on Scientific and Technical Subjects

"TOGA COARE International Data Workshop,"
UCAR Quarterly, Winter 1994.

"Capital of the Atmosphere," Flatirons, the Boulder Magazine, Fall/Winter 1994.

"Global Climate Crucible," The World & I, November 1993.

"The Other Rain Forests," The World & I, November 1992.

"TOGA COARE: University Scientists Help Unravel Mysteries of the Western Pacific Warm Pool," UCAR Newsletter, January-February 1993.

"Thunderstorms 101," Plane & Pilot, July 1992.

"Old King of the Green Desert," The World & I, April 1992.

"The Aspen Paradox," The World & I, October 1991.

"The Regional Acid Deposition Model: New Tool for Policy Assessment," with Hugh Patrick, Cray Channels, Winter 1990.

"Phoenix in Space: Rising From the Ashes Into Orbit," The World & I, December 1990.

"Aircraft Icing," Plane & Pilot, December 1990.

"Protecting Airports from Wind Shear: Terminal Doppler Weather Radar," with John McCarthy, Airport Technology International 1989 (London)

"Summer Flying, Mountain Style," Plane & Pilot, June 1989.

"Watch Out for the Wave," Plane & Pilot, December 1988.

"Thunder Blunders," Plane & Pilot, March and April 1988.

"Rime's Reason," America West Airlines Magazine, December 1987.

"Out on a Limb," America West Airlines Magazine, September 1987.

"Saline Solution," America West Airlines Magazine, August 1987.

"Avoiding Hazardous Weather," Air Line Pilot, April 1987.

"The Big Sleep," America West Airlines Magazine, December 1986.

"The Might of the Microburst," Air & Space/Smithsonian, August/September 1986.

"Chill Factor," America West Airlines Magazine, August 1986.

"It's in the Air," America West Airlines Magazine, July 1986.

"To Understand the Atmosphere," Weatherwise, August 1985.

"The Weather Busters," Continental, September 1984.

"The Global Circuit," Mosaic, May/June 1983.

"The Metropolitan Water Roundtable: Resource Allocation Through Conflict Management," with W.J.D. Kennedy, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, March 1983.

"Ice in the Summer Sky," Mosaic, July/August 1982.

"Vulcan's Chimneys--Subduction-Zone Volcanism," Mosaic, March/April 1981.

"Modeling the Climate System," Mosaic, November/December 1979.

"Supergas," Colorado/Rocky Mountain West, November-December 1979.

"The Weather, Myths and Politics," The Christian Science Monitor, October 31, 1979.

"Tree Rings: Predictors of Drought?" Weatherwise, October 1979.

"Harvest Nights," Colorado/Rocky Mountain West, September-October 1979.

"The Frightening Mystery of the Electrical Storm," Smithsonian, August 1979.

"Acid from the Sky," Mosaic, July/August 1979.

"Rocky Mountain Highs. . . and Lows," Colorado/Rocky Mountain West, January-February 1979.

"The Winter of '77--What Was It Trying to Tell Us?" in 1977 Corn Annual, Corn Refiners Association, Inc., Washington, 1977.

"Solar Heat: The 60 to 80 Percent Solution," Colorado/Rocky Mountain West, March/April 1977.

"The Winter of '77--What is It Trying to Tell Us?" Outlook '77, special supplement to The Boulder Daily Camera, February 20, 1977.

"Science in Colorado: The Second Century Begins," Science, 4 February 1977.

"[Earthquake] Prediction: The Negative Aspects," Nature (London), January 6, 1977.

"Cloud Seeding--No Cure-All for Weather Problems," The Peanut Farmer, January 1977.

"What Can the Weatherman Tell the Farmer?" Marzhaye Now (published in Farsi in Iran by the U.S. Information Agency), January 1977.

"Colorado--World Center of Atmospheric Studies," Colorado, the Centennial State, special supplement to The Denver Post, July 4, 1976.

"The National Hail Research Experiment," Weatherwise, August 1976.

"The Cold Facts About Our Weather," The Flue Cured Tobacco Farmer, May 1976.

"Colder, Warmer, Dryer or Wetter?" The Flue Cured Tobacco Farmer, April 1976.

"Project GATE," in 1975 Encyclopedia Science Supplement, Grolier, New York, 1975.

"Climate Outlook: Variable and Possibly Cooler," Smithsonian, November 1975.

"Weather Watchers," Nature (London), August 28, 1975.

"We Can Change the Weather," United Mainliner, August 1975.

"Skylab Spinoff: Scanning the Sun," Empire Magazine, The Denver Post, April 20, 1975.

"What We Should Do About Our Changing Climate," Perspective, The Denver Post, November 10, 1974.

"We're Changing the Weather by Accident," Science Digest, December 1973.

"Weather Modification: The Public Will Decide," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, July 1973.

"The People Will Decide About the Weather," Perspective, The Denver Post, January 21, 1973.

"Estará O Homem Mudando O Tempo?" Diálogo (published in Portuguese in Brazil by the U.S. Information Agency), January-February-March 1973.

"Environmental Pollution," in The Book of Popular Science, Grolier, 1972.

"Atmospheric Sciences," in 1972 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1971.

"Meteorology," in Collier's 1971 Yearbook, Crowell-Collier Educational Corporation, 1971.

"A Cathedral for Science," Horizons (published for distribution in Malaysia by the U.S. Information Agency), 1971.

"Werden Wetter und Klima heute künstlich verändert?" Universitas (Stuttgart), November 1971.

"Why the Sands Aren't Red," Science Digest, May 1971.

"Ändern wir Menschen das Wetter?" Das Tier (Frankfurt), April 1971.

"The NCAR Mesa Laboratory," Swatantra Vishwa (published in Nepalese in Kathmandu by the U.S. Information Agency), February 1971.

"Man and the Weather," in The Book of Popular Science, Grolier, 1970.

"Why the Sands Aren't Red," Empire Magazine, The Denver Post, October 25, 1970.

"Science World Takes You to Fossil Butte," Science World, October 5, 1970.

"Science World Takes You to a High-Altitude Lab," Science World, April 13, 1970.

"The Harsh Life on Niwot Ridge," Empire Magazine, The Denver Post, January 11, 1970.

"The Weird Things That Happen When Planes and Birds Collide," Science Digest, May 1969.

"Science World Takes You to Chinook Country," Science World, September 13, 1968.

"Today's Scientists--Professor Lewis Grant," Science World, May 16, 1968.

"Senior Science Takes You There--Sun Watching Atop a Volcano," Senior Science, March 14, 1968.

"Rendezvous on a Small Planet," Empire Magazine, The Denver Post, January 28, 1968.

"Senior Science Takes You There--Florissant's Fossil Treasures," Senior Science, January 18, 1968.

"Life in the Green Desert," Desert Magazine, December 1967.

"The Desert's Declining King," Empire Magazine, The Denver Post, January 15, 1967.

"Treasure in Stone," Empire Magazine, The Denver Post, December 4, 1966

"The Botanic Wonderland of Mesa Trail," Empire Magazine, The Denver Post, August 21, 1966.

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