Wasaburo Ooishi and the Jet Stream | Cosmos Magazine

“The jet stream is arguably the greatest weather system on Earth,” says Tim Woollings, a climate scientist in the Oxford University Department of Physics. “If you were only given one piece of information from which to infer something about the weather, then across much of the Earth’s surface you’d want it to be about the jet stream.”

… “However, along with his duties as a meteorologist, Ooishi was coincidentally deputy director of the Japan Esperanto Society.”

Read the Article | Cosmos Magazine | Jeff Glorfeld

A book dedicated to jet stream, our understanding of it and how it affects global weather:

Jet Stream: A Journey Through our Changing Climate by Tim Woollings

and a highly recommended scholar article :

Ooishi’s Observation Viewed in the Context of Jet Stream Discovery by John M. Lewis

Jet Stream, Print Resolution NASA