CURRICULUM VITAE short
Roland List, FRSC
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A7- Visiting Professor Swiss Federal Institute for Technology,
Zurich Switzerland 1998
- Secretary General International Association of Meteorology and
Atmospheric Sciences, IAMAS, 1995 - 2007
- Architect WMO-IUGG Assessment of the Effect of Aerosol Pollution on Precipitation- Architect Alliance for Capacity Transfer, IUGG/WMO/UCAR* 1996- 99
- 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
- Visiting Professor Institute for Atmospheric Physics, ETH,
Zurich 1974
- 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
- 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 and WCRP 1995- 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
- Member Committee for Advertent and Inadvertent Weather
Modification, American
Meteorological Society, AMS 1996 -
- Member Graduate School, University of Toronto 1994-
- Member and Univeristy Representative UCAR, Boulder, USA 1993-
- IAMAS Organizer of Joint IAMAS/IAPSO Assembly in Melbourne,
July 1997 (1050 attendees)
- Organizer of IAMAS part at the IUGG Assemblies in Birmingham, UK,
July 1999, Sapporo 2003, and Perugia 2007
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, 6 IAMAS) and Organizer of a
series of WMO meetings (1 Congress, 2 Executive Council meetings,
etc.);
General Area of Work
Over 250 publications on laboratory and field
experiments, theory and applications in the fields of cloud
physics (evolution and growth of hail, graupel, rain),
aerodynamics, heat and mass transfer, Doppler radar operation and
observations (electromagnetic and acoustic radars), cloud
modelling, field experiments, classical physics and weather
modification. Training of top specialists ( 33 PhDs, 47 MScs).
Provision of leadership in the international arena.
STUDENTS
PhD students 33; MSc Students 44
Special achievements
Basic contributions to the growth of cloud
particles, in particular:
- Establishment of properties of hailstones and graupel- Establishment of collection efficiencies of graupel and
hailstones- Study of the positions of c- and a-axes in hailstone cross sections- Discovery of spongy ice as a major haistone growth product
- Establishment of the general heat and mass transfer of ice
crystals, graupel and hailstones under various fall modes and rotations
- Establishment of the general free fall behavior of
particles such as graupel and hailstones- Discovery of the main free fall modes for the growth of spherical and ellipsoidal hailstones
- Establishment by experiment of collision, coalescence, collection and breakup
processes of growing raindrops, at laboratory pressured and 50 kPa, with parameterization
- 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 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 - Vertyical scanning of particle spectra when Doppler radar was hit by hail, observation of 3-peak spectra indicating mix of hailstones and (shed) water drops, indication also that hail was falling in sheets, 100-200 m thick and of limited length- Application of Principle Componment Analysis for the determination of hurricane centers and maximum winds from single Doppler scans.
- Provision of leadership in weather modification world-wide
- 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).
Engineering Aspects and 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, 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 liked with 7 m3 cold
chamber in cold room); 5) acoustic Doppler radar to study city
boundary layer, with thermals and snow (sold); 5) portable
Doppler radar to study evolution of rain and raindrop spectra; 6)
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 (overtaken by Google)
Architect of ALLIANCE or ACT, created over the past 2
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
Honorary Member of the International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (1 of four living members0, Honorary rofessor, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Scviences, 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.)
28 AUGUST 2008
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