Henry van de Boogaard, 1923Ð1994

Long-time NCAR scientist Henry van de Boogaard died last Wednesday, 
14 September in Boulder.  An expert in tropical meteorology, Henry was 
at NCAR from 1963 until his retirement in 1988.

Born in The Hague, Netherlands, Henry served in that nation's army in 
England during World War II.  From 1946 to 1960, he was a meteorologist 
with the South African weather service.  Henry came to the United States 
in 1962 and served one year as an assistant professor of meteorology at 
the University of Utah before joining NCAR.  In the latter 1960s, he was 
an affiliate professor at the University of Miami, teaching there for 
several summer terms.

Henry was part of NCAR's Laboratory for Atmospheric Science and, 
later, the Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction Division.  He also served 
on the planning committees for the Nimbus-B and -D satellites and on 
several Navy panels on tropical meteorology.  Henry also participated in 
the Global Atmosphere Research Program's Atlantic Tropical 
Experiment, the major field effort focused on the eastern tropical Atlantic 
in 1973Ð74.  He compiled an exhaustive atlas, The Mean Circulation of 
the Tropical and Subtropical AtmosphereÑJuly (NCAR Technical Note 
#118, 1977) and was more recently working toward completion of a 
companion volume for the month of January.

"Henry was Mr. Tropical when I came to NCAR," says Ed Zipser, now a 
professor at Texas A&M University.  "I learned a lot about tropical 
systems from him.  He'd been everywhere, but the one thing you could 
count on was that his Dutch background would always come to the fore.   
During the Line Islands Experiment in 1967, NCAR had arranged with a 
contractor to supply food and other necessities of life to over 100 
scientists and technical staff on three isolated islands in the central Pacific 
[Palmyra, Fanning, and Christmas].  When Henry found the menu 
lacking in certain essentials, he insisted on having a month's supply of 
brussels sprouts sent to the islands."

Surviving Henry are his wife, six children, and 19 grandchildren.  
Contributions in his name may be made to the Kidney Foundation of the 
Rocky Mountain Region, 1805 Bellaire, Suite 301, Denver, CO  80222, or 
to a charity of the donor's choice.  --BH