Necrologies

Herbert Riehl 1915-1997 Herbert Riehl, founder of the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, died on 1 June 1997 at a Denver hospital.

Widely regarded as the father of tropical meteorology, Riehl was born in Munich, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1933 and became a citizen in 1939. In 1942, he received an M.S. in meteorology from New York University and taught at the Department of Meteorology at the University of Washington during 1924-43. He then returned and was associated with the University of Chicago until 1960.

When the U.S. Army Air Corps and University of Chicago established the Institute of Tropical Meteorology on the campus …