HERBERT RIEHL, PIONEER IN TROPICAL STORM RESEARCH, AT 82: - June 10, 1997
Atmospheric scientist Herbert Riehl, a pioneer in tropical storm research, died June 1 in Denver. He was 82.
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 14 at 1200 Humbolt St. in Denver.
Riehl played a principal role in establishing Colorado as a center for atmospheric and weather studies, as well as conducting research in equatorial regions. He founded the atmospheric sciences department at Colorado State University in 1960 and wrote several textbooks and more than 100 articles.
Riehl was born March 30, 1915, in Munich, Germany. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1933 and became a citizen in 1939. In 1942, he received a master's degree in meteorology from New York University and taught at the University of Washington.
In 1945-46, he directed the Institute of Tropical Meteorology at the University of Puerto Rico with the U.S. Army and the University of Chicago. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1947, and taught there until 1960 when he moved to Fort Collins.
He left CSU in 1972 to return to Berlin as director of the Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics at the Free University of Berlin.
He came to Boulder in 1976 to join the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint laboratory of the federal government and the University of Colorado. He retired in 1989, but continued to consult on tropical weather issues.
In addition to his research, Riehl was an avid mountaineer. He climbed Kilamanjaro and Mount Blanc, as well as several Colorado peaks.
Riehl married Janis VanValin on Jan. 2, 1972, in Denver. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Natalie Ann Riehl of Hamilton, Mont.; a son, Herbert Ernst Riehl of Lafayette; stepsons Bruce Clifford Dunning, Robert Carroll Otto and Harry Earl Otto, all of the Los Angeles area; and eight grandchildren.
Contributions may be made to the Herbert Riehl Memorial Fund, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 80523.
Friends may contribute to a memorial book by letter to Mrs. Herbert Riehl, 1200 Humboldt St. Denver, 80218 or fax at 303-832-8933.
Atmospheric scientist Herbert Riehl, a pioneer in tropical storm research, died June 1 in Denver. He was 82.
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 14 at 1200 Humbolt St. in Denver.
Riehl played a principal role in establishing Colorado as a center for atmospheric and weather studies, as well as conducting research in equatorial regions. He founded the atmospheric sciences department at Colorado State University in 1960 and wrote several textbooks and more than 100 articles.
Riehl was born March 30, 1915, in Munich, Germany. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1933 and became a citizen in 1939. In 1942, he received a master's degree in meteorology from New York University and taught at the University of Washington.
In 1945-46, he directed the Institute of Tropical Meteorology at the University of Puerto Rico with the U.S. Army and the University of Chicago. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1947, and taught there until 1960 when he moved to Fort Collins.
He left CSU in 1972 to return to Berlin as director of the Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics at the Free University of Berlin.
He came to Boulder in 1976 to join the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint laboratory of the federal government and the University of Colorado. He retired in 1989, but continued to consult on tropical weather issues.
In addition to his research, Riehl was an avid mountaineer. He climbed Kilamanjaro and Mount Blanc, as well as several Colorado peaks.
Riehl married Janis VanValin on Jan. 2, 1972, in Denver. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Natalie Ann Riehl of Hamilton, Mont.; a son, Herbert Ernst Riehl of Lafayette; stepsons Bruce Clifford Dunning, Robert Carroll Otto and Harry Earl Otto, all of the Los Angeles area; and eight grandchildren.
Contributions may be made to the Herbert Riehl Memorial Fund, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 80523.
Friends may contribute to a memorial book by letter to Mrs. Herbert Riehl, 1200 Humboldt St. Denver, 80218 or fax at 303-832-8933.
HERBERT RIEHL, PIONEER IN TROPICAL STORM RESEARCH, AT 82: - June 10, 1997
Atmospheric scientist Herbert Riehl, a pioneer in tropical storm research, died June 1 in Denver. He was 82.
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 14 at 1200 Humbolt St. in Denver.
Riehl played a principal role in establishing Colorado as a center for atmospheric and weather studies, as well as conducting research in equatorial regions. He founded the atmospheric sciences department at Colorado State University in 1960 and wrote several textbooks and more than 100 articles.
Riehl was born March 30, 1915, in Munich, Germany. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1933 and became a citizen in 1939. In 1942, he received a master's degree in meteorology from New York University and taught at the University of Washington.
In 1945-46, he directed the Institute of Tropical Meteorology at the University of Puerto Rico with the U.S. Army and the University of Chicago. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1947, and taught there until 1960 when he moved to Fort Collins.
He left CSU in 1972 to return to Berlin as director of the Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics at the Free University of Berlin.
He came to Boulder in 1976 to join the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint laboratory of the federal government and the University of Colorado. He retired in 1989, but continued to consult on tropical weather issues.
In addition to his research, Riehl was an avid mountaineer. He climbed Kilamanjaro and Mount Blanc, as well as several Colorado peaks.
Riehl married Janis VanValin on Jan. 2, 1972, in Denver. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Natalie Ann Riehl of Hamilton, Mont.; a son, Herbert Ernst Riehl of Lafayette; stepsons Bruce Clifford Dunning, Robert Carroll Otto and Harry Earl Otto, all of the Los Angeles area; and eight grandchildren.
Contributions may be made to the Herbert Riehl Memorial Fund, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 80523.
Friends may contribute to a memorial book by letter to Mrs. Herbert Riehl, 1200 Humboldt St. Denver, 80218 or fax at 303-832-8933.
Atmospheric scientist Herbert Riehl, a pioneer in tropical storm research, died June 1 in Denver. He was 82.
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 14 at 1200 Humbolt St. in Denver.
Riehl played a principal role in establishing Colorado as a center for atmospheric and weather studies, as well as conducting research in equatorial regions. He founded the atmospheric sciences department at Colorado State University in 1960 and wrote several textbooks and more than 100 articles.
Riehl was born March 30, 1915, in Munich, Germany. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1933 and became a citizen in 1939. In 1942, he received a master's degree in meteorology from New York University and taught at the University of Washington.
In 1945-46, he directed the Institute of Tropical Meteorology at the University of Puerto Rico with the U.S. Army and the University of Chicago. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1947, and taught there until 1960 when he moved to Fort Collins.
He left CSU in 1972 to return to Berlin as director of the Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics at the Free University of Berlin.
He came to Boulder in 1976 to join the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint laboratory of the federal government and the University of Colorado. He retired in 1989, but continued to consult on tropical weather issues.
In addition to his research, Riehl was an avid mountaineer. He climbed Kilamanjaro and Mount Blanc, as well as several Colorado peaks.
Riehl married Janis VanValin on Jan. 2, 1972, in Denver. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Natalie Ann Riehl of Hamilton, Mont.; a son, Herbert Ernst Riehl of Lafayette; stepsons Bruce Clifford Dunning, Robert Carroll Otto and Harry Earl Otto, all of the Los Angeles area; and eight grandchildren.
Contributions may be made to the Herbert Riehl Memorial Fund, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 80523.
Friends may contribute to a memorial book by letter to Mrs. Herbert Riehl, 1200 Humboldt St. Denver, 80218 or fax at 303-832-8933.
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