Hendrik Tennekes

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Hendrik (Henk) Tennekes, born 1936, formerly director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, or KNMI), and a professor of aeronautical engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Tennekes pioneered methods of multi-modal forecasting. He authored The Simple Science of Flight and A First Course in Turbulence. Tennekes was a strong proponent of scientific modeling, and he challenged the use of incomplete or unproven scientific models by those trying to explain complex phenomena such as global warming.

[edit] References

The Simple Science of Flight,MIT Press, 1997,ISBN: 0-262-70065-4

A First Course in Turbulence,MIT Press, 1972,ISBN: 0-262-20019-8

[edit] External links

• A skeptical view of climate models
• The Lorenz paradigm and the limitations of climate models
• The limits of predictability National Post article, Feb. 2, 2007