CURRICULUM VITAE short
Roland
List, FRSC
Department
of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A7,
Canada Phone: (+1) 416
978 2982; Fax: (+1) 416 978 8905;
MAJOR
PRIMARY INVOLVEMENTS
- Professor Department of Physics, University
of Toronto 1984-94
- Deputy Secretary-General WMO* (UN), Geneva 1982-84
- Professor (full) Department of Physics, University of Toronto 1963-82
- Head Hail Section, Swiss Federal Institute for Snow & Avalanche Research
1952-63
- Visiting
Professor Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Zurich Switzerland, 1974 and
1998 - Secretary General
International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, IAMAS, 1995 -
2003 - Architect ALLIANCE for
CAPACITY TRANSFER, IUGG/WMO/UCAR* 1996- -
Professor emeritus University of Toronto 1994-
*IUGG: International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics
*WMO: World Meteorological Organization (UN), Geneva, Switzerland
*UCAR: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO, USA
EDUCATION
AND
CERTIFICATION
- Dr. sc. nat.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zurich Switzerland 1960
- Dipl. phys. ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zurich
Switzerland 1952
also: CCM Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Amer. Meteor. Society
MAJOR
SECONDARY INVOLVEMENTS
- Associate Chairman Department of Physics University of Toronto 1969-72
- Board of Trustees (Directors) US University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research, UCAR (NCAR), 1975-78
- Administrator NRC Grant for developing an Atmospheric Dynamics Group at the
University of Toronto 1974-79
- Architect of the Precipitation Enhancement Project, PEP, of WMO in
Valladolid, Spain
- Founding Chair EC Panel
Weather Modification, WMO, and Working Group for Cloud Physics, WMO 1969-82
- Member US Space Shuttle Science Council 1978-81
OTHER
ACTIVITIES SINCE RETIREMENT IN 1994
- Chair Italian Scientific Committee "Projetto Pioggia" (Rain
enhancement in Italy) 1989- 1998
- Representative of Intern. Union for Geodesy and Geophysics with WMO
1995-2003 and with the World Climate Research Programme, WCRP, of WMO and the
International Union for Science, ICSU, 1999-2003
- Chair Committee of Experts for the Evaluation of the Faculty and Department of
Environmental Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institut for technology, ETH, Zurich
1995/96
- Committee for Advertent and Inadvertent Weather Modification,
- American
Meteorological Society, AMS, member 1996 - 2003, chairman 1999-2002
- Member Graduate School, University of Toronto 1994-
- Member's Representative UCAR, Boulder, USA 1993-1998, 1999, 2000
- IAMAS Organizer of Joint IAMAS/IAPSO Assembly in Melbourne, July 1997
(750 attendees)
- Organizer of IAMAS part at the IUGG Assembly in Birmingham, UK, July 1999 (780
attendees from IAMAS).
- Organizer (with Professor M. Kuhn) of IAMAS Assembly in Innsbuck,
Austria, 10-18 July, 2001 (~1000 attendees, 1200 abstracts)
OTHER previous
Meeting Functions:
Chair Overall and Scientific Planning Committees of international conferences (4
on Weather Modification by WMO, 1 on Typhon Moderation by WMO, 1 Cloud Physics)
- Organizer of
a series of WMO meetings (1 Congress, 2 Executive Council meetings, etc.);
General
Area of Work
Over 220 publications on laboratory and field experiments, theory and
applications in the fields of cloud physics (evolution and growth of hail,
graupel, rain), aerodynamics of freely falling bodies, heat and mass transfer,
including transfers from bodies with non-homogeneous surface temperatures,
Doppler radar operation and observations (electromagnetic and acoustic radars),
cloud modeling, field experiments, classical physics and weather modification.
Training of top specialists ( 33 PhDs, 47 MScs). Provision of leadership in the
international arena. Lecturer on weather modification at international
training seminars of WMO in Valladolid, Spain, and Chang Mai, Thailand.
Guest lecturer and invited speaker all over the world.
The
involvement in field experiments was in GATE of GARP, PEP in Spain, Hailswath in
South Dakota, NHRE in Colorado; the Joint Rain Project was with Malaysian
Meteorological Service in Penang*, Malaysia, 1986 and 1990;
while the Projects in Inuvik*, North West Territories and Saint Johns*,
Newfoundland, were sponsored by the Canadian Meteorological Service, etc. Other
experiment locations: Hawaii, Switzerland, Italy.
* with my Doppler radar
GRADUATE STUDENTS PHd:33; MSc: 45
Special
achievements of research group
Basic contributions to the growth of cloud particles, in particular:
- Establishment of physical properties of hailstones and graupel by study
of natural ice particles and by simulation of their growth and behavior in
pressure-controlled icing wind tunnels.
- Establishment of collection efficiencies of graupel and hailstones, in
windtunnels
- Establishment of the general heat and mass transfer of ice crystals, graupel
and hailstones, fixed, rotating and gyrating in free fall or in wind tunnels,
with various degrees of surface
roughness and air turbulence
- Establishment of the general free fall behavior of particles such as graupel
and hailstones, with first theory on free fall of gyrating particles (the most
general type of free fall motion)
- Discovery of the dominant, hitherto unknown factor controlling thunderstorm
electrification: the relative humidity of the air (P. Berdeklis)
- Establishment of collision, coalescence, collection and breakup processes of
growing raindrops, including parameterization of data (allowing calculations of
raindrop spectra evolution
- Numerical and field studies of warm rain and raindrop spectra evolution in
warm and cold clouds (Spain, Italy, Hawaii, Malaysia (2x), the Canadian Arctic,
Newfoundland, Switzerland, USA, etc.), with disdrometers, PMS 2-dimensional grey-scale
laser probes, Doppler radar, etc.
- Cloud modelling
- Development of two Doppler radar methods to simultaneously extract raindrop
spectra and vertical winds
- High volume resolution Doppler radar experiments demonstrating the high
variability of raindrop spectra properties.
- Establishment of a new, revolutionizing, fast processing evaluation of
hurricane properties, based on Principal Component analysis (P. Harasti)
Guidance as chair of WMO committees on how to carry out weather modification experiments, including the initiation of the Precipitation Enhancement Experiment, PEP, of WMO (34 WMO Reports under my leadership) and the periodically updated WMO position on the State of the Art of Weather Modification.
Engineering
Aspects
- Development and
proof of theory of freely falling particles (gyrational motion) in the range of
5000 < Re < 80000 - Development of first methods to study the heat and
mass transfer of smooth and rough, spherical and spheroidal+ particles with
non-homogeneous surface temperatures, followed by first extensive laboratory
experiments, in two-component, 3-phase flow, with accretion.
- Software development for raindrop spectra measurements and hurricane
characteristics involving Doppler radar.
Facilities
Builder of major and unique icing wind tunnel facilities, with pressure,
temperature, "updraft", liquid water content, and mixed particle
control (droplets and ice crystals); facilities to study
1) free fall behavior and aerodynamics of particles [in wind tunnels and a fall tower with a falling highspeed camera to follow freely falling particles] (now dismantled),
2) heat and mass transfer (simulation of diffusion of H2O molecules in a liquid tunnel by studying ion diffusion in a redox electrolysis (sold for one beer),
3) heat and mass transfer by scanning surface temperature distribution during particle growth, followed by iteratively matching internal conduction to temperature distribution;
4) Electrification of graupel growing in a cloud of supercooled and separately controlled and grown ice crystals: the Triple Interaction Facility (icing wind tunnel linked with 7 m3 cold chamber in cold room);
5) acoustic Doppler radar to study city boundary layer, with thermals and snow (sold);
6) portable Doppler radar to study evolution of rain and raindrop spectra;
7) Cold rooms for the study of crystallographic structure of natural and
artificial hailstones; etc.
ALLIANCE
FOR CAPACITY TRANSFER, ACT,
a Global Exchange of Knowledge, Information and Experience in the Fields of
Meteorology and Related Sciences, such as Hydrology and Oceanography
Architect of ALLIANCE or ACT, slowl developed over the past four years to bring
together UN and other international organizations, national meteorological and
hydrological services, national institutions, universities, individual
scientists and the related private sector to share existing
knowledge and information and to create better conditions for improved research
and operations across the world. WMO has approved my proposal at its Executive
Council meeting in June 1997; UCAR, the University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research in Boulder CO and the Executive Committee of IUGG have also given the
final go ahead in 1997.
Honors
Fellow, Royal
Society of Canada, Member Canadian Academy of Science, Patterson Medal, Member
Swiss Academy of Sciences, Medals from Leningrad University and the Government
of Thailand, Fellow Royal Meteor. Soc. (UK) and Amer. Meteor. Soc.
Consultant
UN, WMO, World Bank, UNDP, UNEP; Governments of Canada, US, Italy, Malaysia,
Thailand, Switzerland, Germany, etc., Industry (Rayethon, INCO, Lonza, etc.)
15 March 1998 / 10 March 2001/28 August 2008