Chapter fifteen: Storm Patrol

Details scattered through chapter 15 come from the following: Interviews with Verner Suomi, Bob Ohckers, Bob Sutton, and Leo Skille.

“Initial Technical proposal for a ‘Storm Patrol’ Meteorological Experi­ment on an ATS Spacecraft” by V. E. Suomi and R. J. Parent, September 28,1964;

“Spin Scan Camera System for a Synchronous Satellite” prepared for NASA by V. E. Suomi and R. J. Parent—July 1965; and “The Spin Scan Camera System: Geostationary Meteorological Satellite Workhorse for a Decade.” Optical Engineering 17 (1),January—February 1978.

Books of Value for the Meteorology Section

Planet Earth: The View from Space, by D. James Baker (Flarvard University Press, 1990).

Watching the World’s Weather; by W. J. Burroughs (Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Weather Cycles: Real or Imaginary; by W. J. Burroughs (Cambridge Univer­sity Press, 1992).