Richard T. Wetherald Obituary

Richard T. Wetherald attended Scotch Plains-fanwood High School in Scotch Plains, NJ. View the obituary, post a memory, or share a photo about Richard T. Wetherald.

Graduation Year	Class of 1954
Date of Passing	Oct 09, 2011
About	Dick was a Senior Research Metrologist with NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University. He was credited with co-authoring the Seminal research paper on Global Warming in 1968. "Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with given Distribution of Relativity on the" has become the most cited climate change paper of all time. He has been credited with 33 publications, 1247 citations and 31 collaborations with co-authors from 1987 to 2011 along with many honors to numerous to cite here. Quite a career that many of us did not know. Rest in peace Dickie you made us proud. geophysical Fluid Dynamics