Word: bryson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best-seller list. Many are now used in courses here because there are no competitors in their field. Such is the case with Y.C. Ho's "Applied Optimal Control," which the co-author used to teach Engineering 202, "Optimization and Control of Deterministic and Dynamic Systems." Ho and Arthur Bryson, who first taught the course here and then moved to teach at Stanford, compiled their voluminous lecture notes, making their ground-breaking work accessible to thousands--and facilitating their own teaching...
...substantial number believe the earth is undergoing a cooling trend and is returning to the conditions of the "Little Ice Age"-the generally cold, damp weather that prevailed from around 1600 to 1850. British Climatologist Hubert Lamb believes the change is cyclical, occurring every 200 years or so. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin and many others blame the earth's cooling on an increase of dust particles in the atmosphere; the particles act like tiny mirrors, reflecting back some of the sunlight sinking the atmosphere and depriving the earth's surface of solar heat...
Despite such regional woes as America's Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the world's major agricultural areas have enjoyed an unparalleled record of beneficent weather for the past half-century. It has been "the most abnormal period in at least a thousand years," says Reid A. Bryson, director of the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Environmental Studies. Temperatures were surprisingly high, and the warmth fostered plant growth in normally well-watered areas, while some deserts shrank under the influence of regular rainfall...
...that era may well be ending. From his studies of weather history, British Climatologist Hubert H. Lamb concludes that climate runs in roughly 200-year-long cycles, and that the earth is now entering one of its chilly phases. Perhaps the gloomiest of the weather prophets, Bryson speculates that the earth may be reverting to a frigid interlude comparable to what some scientists call the "little ice age" that cooled Europe from the 16th through 19th centuries. During those years Greenland's once lush fields vanished, England's productive vineyards withered, and agricultural disasters like Ireland...
...Bryson, for one, blames the earth's cooling on an increase of dust in the atmosphere. Acting like tiny mirrors, dust particles reflect some of the sunlight striking the earth's atmosphere, depriving the surface of solar heat. Bryson believes that the excess dust comes in part from volcanic eruptions, which seem to have increased in recent years. Still other atmosphere polluters could be: 1) extensive land clearing and deforestation by slash-and-burn techniques, and 2) the increased use of fossil fuels, which release soot into...