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April 2001  NCAR archivist Diane Rabson sheds light on our
institutional history in this bimonthly series. In this year's
installments, Diane commemorates the 40th anniversary of UCAR
and NCAR by focusing on key periods in our history.  Flights
over the Fires of Kuwait  Ten years ago, in May 1991, a team of
NCAR scientists participated in an effort, jointly supported by
NSF and the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA), with additional funds
from the National Geographic Society, to study the effects of
burning oil wells set alight by Iraq during the Persian Gulf
war. NCAR staffers Lawrence Radke (then manager of RAF and co-
principal investigator with Peter Hobbs of the University of
Washington), Darrel Baumgardner (then ATD manager of the
project, recently retired from UCAR, and now at the National
Autonomous University of Mexico), Gregory Kok (then of ATD, now
of RAP), Bruce Morley (then of SRI International, now of RAF),
Ronald Schwiesow (then of ATD,