science

Joe Witte

Joe Witte is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Joe Witte rather than just read about it. In short: Joe Witte recently retired as an Outreach Specialist for Aquent, a contractor of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. He adapted science content for use by 2,000 television meteorologists around the country.

Key takeaways

Joe Witte belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Joe Witte to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Joe Witte from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Joe Witte recently retired as an Outreach Specialist for Aquent, a contractor of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. He adapted science content for use by 2,000 television meteorologists around the country. Joe Witte began his career as a glaciologist with the USGS, conducting research on the South Cascade Glacier in the northern Cascades of Washington State, as well as on the Nisqually Glacier on Mount Rainier and the Blue Glacier on Mount Olympus. He was the principal investigator on ice island T-3 in the Arctic Ocean studying the Greenhouse infrared radiation budget as well as the ice crystals of the Arctic clouds, winter and summers. Next was 1 year at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton, where original climate change computer modeling was created. An unexpected opportunity put Joe in front a TV news studio camera in 1970 at KING TV, Seattle, Wa. Four decades of TV news gave Witte opportunities across the country with 2 local TV news-team Emmys (NYC Blizzard coverage and Wash.DC hurricane coverage.) Witte has contributed to numerous skunkworks projects that have evolved into successful initiatives. Notably, in 2009, he played a key role in the original concept team that led to the establishment of the NSF-funded “Climate Matters” programme. This initiative now supports over 1,000 TV meteorologists in communicating the science and solutions related to climate change. (https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/weathercasters/) Witte has worked for WCBS-TV, WABC-TV, and WNBC-TV in New York City, as well as at stations in Seattle, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. While at WNBC-TV, he was the longtime weatherman on the morning program Today in New York. Witte served as the weatherman for the former NBC News program NBC News at Sunrise from 1983 to 1999, and as the weatherman and occasional fill-in host for Sunday Today from 1992 to 1995. Witte has also filled in for John Coleman on ABC's Good Morning America, and for Janice Huff, Willard Scott, and Al Roker on NBC's Today. He helped make John Coleman's beta project tape for the initial Weather Channel. Witte then served 4 years reporting on the weather's effects on the business world for CNBC from 1999 to 2003. He performed voiceover work for sponsor idents that appeared before various segments of NBC's Today. Witte has often reported on NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC as a weather expert and was chief meteorologist for NBC's Super Channel NBC Asia, and NBC Europe. He has also made appearances as a meteorologist on MSNBC. Witte was on the air non-stop for Hurricane Gloria in 1985, and also for the Blizzard of 1996 for over eight hours each for both events. Local Emmys for Blizzard of 1996 and 2003's Hurricane Isabel are among his awards. Joe is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society as well as of The Explorers Club.

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Joe Witte

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Joe Witte claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Joe Witte before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Joe Witte ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Joe Witte

In research: Joe Witte appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Joe Witte in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Joe Witte is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1943 births, CNBC people, Fellows of the American Meteorological Society, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Joe Witte outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Joe Witte in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Joe Witte means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Joe Witte out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Joe Witte in simple terms?

Why does Joe Witte matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Joe Witte?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Joe Witte.