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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Richard „Dick“ Tryon Wetherald</b> (<a href="1936" title="1936">1936</a> – <a href="9._Oktober" title="9. Oktober">9. Oktober</a> <a href="2011" title="2011">2011</a> in <a href="Newtown_(Bucks_County%2C_Pennsylvania)" title="Newtown (Bucks County, Pennsylvania)">Newtown</a>, <a href="Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a><sup id="cite_ref-matherhodge_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-matherhodge-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) war ein <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US-amerikanischer</a><sup id="cite_ref-nzz-1420749_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nzz-1420749-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Klimawissenschaftler. Er leistete Pionierarbeit bei der rechnergestützten <a href="Klimamodell" title="Klimamodell">Klimamodellierung</a>.
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<p>Er war verheiratet und Vater dreier Kinder.<sup id="cite_ref-matherhodge_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-matherhodge-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Im Jahr 1967 konnte Wetherald gemeinsam mit <a href="Syukuro_Manabe" title="Syukuro Manabe">Syukuro Manabe</a> mit einem der ersten Klimamodelle die Stärke der Erwärmung der Atmosphäre durch die Verdopplung von Kohlendioxid auf den Wert 2,3 Grad Celsius berechnen.<sup id="cite_ref-nzz-1420749_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nzz-1420749-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>zusammen mit Syukuro Manabe: <i>Thermal equilibrium of the atmosphere with a given distribution of relative humidity.</i> In: <i>Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences</i>, Band 24, Nr. 3, 1967, Seiten 241–259. <span class="-print"><a href="Internationale_Standardnummer_f%C3%BCr_fortlaufende_Sammelwerke" title="Internationale Standardnummer für fortlaufende Sammelwerke">ISSN</a> <span style="white-space:nowrap"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://zdb-katalog.de/list.xhtml?t=iss%3D%221520-0469%22&key=cql">1520-0469</a></span></span></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-matherhodge-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-matherhodge_1-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-matherhodge_1-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://matherhodge.com/tribute/details/84/Richard-Wetherald/obituary.html">https://matherhodge.com/tribute/details/84/Richard-Wetherald/obituary.html</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-nzz-1420749-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-nzz-1420749_2-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-nzz-1420749_2-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/klimawandel-die-wichtigsten-fakten-im-ueberblick-ld.1420749">https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/klimawandel-die-wichtigsten-fakten-im-ueberblick-ld.1420749</a></span>
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