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Post on Norman A. Phillips (1923-2019) – Image Research and Licensing Report

All candidate images verified against Wikimedia Commons file pages on 2026-05-17. Direct CDN URLs confirmed working on upload.wikimedia.org. No fair-use images included. Reuse from existing repo assets is preferred where possible (this is a 42-post series; same images recur).

The 1956 Phillips QJRMS paper itself (Figure 1, the grid layout, etc.) is RMS copyright and is NOT included as a candidate.

A. Already in /assets/images/ – reuse, do not re-download

1. header-phillips.jpg

  • What it shows: Existing post-header crop used by 2026-03-30-The-first-climate-model-had-5KB-of-RAM.md. Confirmed in repo.
  • Use: This is the existing teaser/overlay image. Reuse for the new long-form Phillips post for header consistency.
  • Action: No license check needed – already in series.

2. header-charney.jpg

  • What it shows: Existing post-header crop used by 2026-03-29-The-man-who-tamed-the-equations.md.
  • Use: If you cross-link from the Charney post, reuse this. Otherwise skip.

3. header-ias-clones.jpg

  • What it shows: Existing header from a previous IAS-clones post. Reuse if your post discusses the IAS architecture spread (MANIAC/JOHNNIAC/BESK lineage).

4. MIT_Green_Building_2017.jpg

  • What it shows: I.M. Pei’s Cecil and Ida Green Building (MIT Building 54), the EAPS tower where Phillips spent his MIT career (1956-1974, as professor and department head 1970-1974).
  • Source: File:2017Green_Building(MIT_Building_54).jpg
  • License: CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Author / date: Beyond My Ken, 12 August 2017.
  • Caveat: Building 54 opened in 1964. Phillips joined MIT in 1956 and would have worked initially in the older Building 24 with Charney. Use the Green Building for “where Phillips chaired the department,” not “where he arrived in 1956.”
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/2017Green_Building%28MIT_Building_54%29.jpg
  • Suggested caption: “The Cecil and Ida Green Building (MIT Building 54), I.M. Pei, opened 1964. Phillips chaired the MIT Department of Meteorology from this building 1970-1974. Foto: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.”

5. World_Weather_Building_1974.png

  • What it shows: The NMC’s headquarters at 5200 Old Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD – where Phillips worked 1974-1988 as Principal Scientist at NMC after leaving MIT.
  • Source: From NWS Heritage page / NOAA Magazine 1975. PD-USGov-NOAA per prior IMAGES_SHUMAN_NMC.md research.
  • Use: Drop into the “1974-1988 NMC years” section. Already correctly licensed.

6. Rossby_1939_LOC.jpg (and/or Rossby_1939.jpg)

  • What it shows: Carl-Gustaf Rossby in formal Harris & Ewing studio portrait, 1939, when he became Assistant Chief of the US Weather Bureau.
  • Source: File:Carl_G.A._Rossby_LCCN2016875745(cropped).jpg
  • License: Public domain. +, Library of Congress Harris & Ewing Collection.
  • Author / date: Harris & Ewing, 1939.
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Carl_G.A._Rossby_LCCN2016875745%28cropped%29.jpg
  • Why use it: Rossby founded both the MIT met department (1928) and the U Chicago Institute of Meteorology (1940). Phillips switched from chemistry to meteorology at Chicago specifically because of Rossby’s program. The Rossby lineage is the single most important institutional context. Already in repo, just verify which filename your post uses.
  • Suggested caption: “Carl-Gustaf Rossby na zdjęciu Harris & Ewing z 1939 roku, po objęciu funkcji Assistant Chief w US Weather Bureau. Założył w 1940 roku Institute of Meteorology na University of Chicago – program, który zmienił Phillipsa z chemika w meteorologa. Fotografia: Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing Collection, domena publiczna.”

7. IAS_bigelow_goldstine_oppenheimer_vonneumann.jpg

  • What it shows: The four-man tableau in front of the IAS machine at Princeton (left to right: Julian Bigelow, Herman Goldstine, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John von Neumann).
  • Important provenance note: The same photograph is on Commons as File:Julian_Bigelow.jpg (uploaded by user “Ibigelow,” presumably a Bigelow family member, in 2012, CC BY-SA 3.0). The version of this image in the repo was credited in the earlier post (2026-04-02 From-cables-to-chaos) to “Alan Richards, Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, IAS, CC BY 4.0.” Both attributions appear in circulation but the Commons route (Julian_Bigelow.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, uploaded by Ibigelow) is the verifiable free-license path. The IAS Archives themselves typically require permission requests, so the Commons upload is what gives us a clean license – not the IAS Archives provenance. If you re-caption, use the Commons attribution.
  • Commons URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julian_Bigelow.jpg
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Julian_Bigelow.jpg
  • Suggested caption (cleaner): “Julian Bigelow, Herman Goldstine, J. Robert Oppenheimer i John von Neumann przed maszyną IAS, Princeton, ok. 1952. Fotografia: archiwum rodzinne Bigelowów (Wikimedia user Ibigelow), CC BY-SA 3.0.”

8. IAS_machine_Oppenheimer_vonNeumann.jpg

  • What it shows: Oppenheimer and von Neumann standing in front of the IAS machine, 1952 (the more famous two-man version, from the same dedication ceremony).
  • Commons file: File:Oppenheimer_and_von_Neumann_in_front_of_the_IAS_machine.jpg
  • License: CC BY 4.0 (Jeremy Norman Collection / historyofinformation.com)
  • Date: 10 June 1952 (IAS machine dedication).
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Oppenheimer_and_von_Neumann_in_front_of_the_IAS_machine.jpg
  • Suggested caption: “J. Robert Oppenheimer i John von Neumann przed maszyną IAS w dniu jej uruchomienia, 10 czerwca 1952. To na tej maszynie Phillips uruchamiał swój model w 1955 roku. Fotografia: Jeremy Norman Collection / historyofinformation.com, CC BY 4.0.”

9. IAS_pomerene_williams_tube.jpg

  • What it shows: James Pomerene holding a Williams tube, working on the IAS machine.
  • Commons file: File:James_Pomerene_IAS_machine.jpg
  • License: CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Author / date: Apomerene (Wikimedia user, presumably a Pomerene family member), 11 January 2022 upload.
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/James_Pomerene_IAS_machine.jpg
  • Use: Strong “look inside the machine” image. Williams tube memory is the technology Phillips’s 5 KB of RAM was stored on – this image literally shows that. Use it in the technical section.

10. Walker_circulation.png and the existing general-circulation diagrams in repo

  • What it shows: Walker circulation schematic. Repo also has Geodesic_icosahedral_polyhedron.svg, early_GCM.jpg, NCEP_T62_gaussian_grid.png. None of these directly illustrate Phillips’s 1956 two-level quasi-geostrophic setup, but they can substitute as “what general-circulation modelling looks like.”
  • Action: Reuse early_GCM.jpg if you’ve used it before. Otherwise consider the new Earth_Global_Circulation image (below).

11. Smagorinsky_portrait.jpg, Syukuro_Manabe.jpg, Kirk_Bryan.jpg, Manabe_portrait.jpg, Bryan_Manabe_Smagorinsky_1969.png

  • All already in repo. Use if your post pivots to the GFDL legacy of Phillips’s 1956 experiment (von Neumann persuaded Weather Bureau / AF / Navy to fund what became GFDL).

B. New candidates worth downloading

12. Norman_Phillips_at_Symposium_on_the_50th_Anniversary_of_Operational_NWP.jpg

  • What it shows: Norman Phillips speaking at the NWP-50 Symposium at the University of Maryland College Park, 16 June 2004. This is the only confirmed free-licensed photo of Phillips on Commons. He is 80 years old in this image and instantly recognizable from his Wikipedia infobox.
  • File page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norman_Phillips_at_Symposium_on_the_50th_Anniversary_of_Operational_NWP.jpg
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Norman_Phillips_at_Symposium_on_the_50th_Anniversary_of_Operational_NWP.jpg
  • License: Public domain. `` – material from US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken as part of an employee’s official duties.
  • Author / date: William G. Collins (NCEP/NOAA), 16 June 2004. Source: http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/nwp50/Photos/Wednesday/
  • Why it suits the post: This is THE Phillips portrait. Use it as the post’s primary biographical image. The 2004 symposium itself was the 50th anniversary of operational NWP – thematically perfect for a post about Phillips’s 1955-56 GCM experiment that helped trigger the NMC’s founding. (Phillips himself said his work “convinced the Weather Bureau, the Air Force, and the Navy to set up the original version of the NMC in 1954.”)
  • Suggested filename in repo: Norman_Phillips_2004_NWP50.jpg
  • Suggested caption: “Norman Phillips podczas Sympozjum z okazji 50. rocznicy operacyjnej numerycznej prognozy pogody, University of Maryland College Park, 16 czerwca 2004. Fotografia: William G. Collins, NCEP/NOAA, domena publiczna (PD-USGov-NOAA).”

13. Jule_Gregory_Charney.png

  • What it shows: The canonical Charney portrait used by Wikipedia. Studio-quality head-and-shoulders. MIT Museum collection but released to public domain via the `` template (published 1978-89 without copyright notice).
  • File page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jule_Gregory_Charney.png
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jule_Gregory_Charney.png
  • License: PD-US-1978-89 (public domain because published in US between 1978 and Feb 1989 without copyright notice).
  • Caveat to flag in caption: The PD-US-1978-89 tag means the photo is PD in the United States but may still be copyrighted in countries that don’t apply the rule of the shorter term (Canada, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland). Wikimedia accepts the file. For a Polish-language blog hosted on GitHub Pages this is acceptable – US-server, US-PD is the relevant jurisdiction.
  • Author / date: MIT Museum, originally circa 1970s.
  • Source page: https://science.mit.edu/chaos-and-climate/
  • Suggested filename in repo: Jule_Charney_portrait.png (note repo already has header-charney.jpg which is a different crop).
  • Why it suits the post: Phillips’s 1948 reading of Charney’s “On the scale of atmospheric motions” was the moment that pulled him into dynamic meteorology. Charney recruited Phillips to the IAS in October 1951. Charney’s baroclinic instability theory is the mechanism the 1956 model uses to grow cyclones from quiescent initial conditions. You need a Charney portrait somewhere.
  • Suggested caption: “Jule Charney, ok. lata 70. Charney napisał w 1948 roku artykuł ‘On the scale of atmospheric motions’, który zmotywował Phillipsa do zajęcia się dynamiką atmosfery, a w październiku 1951 ściągnął go do zespołu IAS. Teoria niestabilności baroklinicznej Charneya jest mechanizmem, według którego w modelu Phillipsa z 1956 roku rosną cyklony. Fotografia: MIT Museum, domena publiczna (PD-US-1978-89).”

14. JohnvonNeumann-LosAlamos.jpg

  • What it shows: The famous head-and-shoulders portrait of John von Neumann from his Los Alamos period (1943-45).
  • File page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JohnvonNeumann-LosAlamos.jpg
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/JohnvonNeumann-LosAlamos.jpg
  • License: Public domain. PD-LosAlamos / PD-USGov-DOE. Source: “Los Alamos: Beginning of an era, 1943-1945” (LASL, 1986). The LANL license states the public may copy and use without charge.
  • Author / date: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1940s.
  • Suggested filename in repo: John_von_Neumann_LANL.jpg
  • Why it suits the post: Von Neumann founded the Electronic Computer Project at IAS that built the machine Phillips used, organized the Meteorology Group at IAS that hired Charney and Phillips, and personally championed Phillips’s 1956 GCM result to the Weather Bureau / Air Force / Navy – the lobbying that built NMC and seeded GFDL.
  • Suggested caption: “John von Neumann w okresie Los Alamos. To on założył w IAS Electronic Computer Project oraz Meteorology Group (z Charneyem na czele, ściągającym do siebie Phillipsa), a po obejrzeniu wyniku Phillipsa z 1956 przekonał Weather Bureau, US Air Force i US Navy do sfinansowania programu, z którego wyrósł NMC i GFDL. Fotografia: Los Alamos National Laboratory, domena publiczna.”

15. Earth_Global_Circulation_-_en.svg

  • What it shows: The canonical three-cell (Hadley / Ferrel / Polar) general atmospheric circulation diagram with labels, jet streams marked, and surface winds annotated. SVG, scalable. Has English-text labels.
  • File page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Global_Circulation_-_en.svg
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Earth_Global_Circulation_-_en.svg
  • License: CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Author / date: Wikimedia user Kaidor, 16 January 2013.
  • Why it suits the post: Phillips’s 1956 result was that a quasi-geostrophic two-level model on a beta-plane, starting from rest, spontaneously generated jet streams, westerlies and trade winds. This diagram shows the textbook end state his model recovered – and emerging from his simulation, no less. Put it next to the “the model recovered the general circulation” beat in the post.
  • Suggested filename in repo: Earth_Global_Circulation.svg (already English-labelled).
  • Suggested caption: “Trzyczęściowy model ogólnej cyrkulacji atmosferycznej – komórki Hadleya, Ferrela i polarna, z pasatami i westerlies. To jest dokładnie ta struktura, która spontanicznie wyłoniła się w modelu Phillipsa z 1956 roku ze stanu spoczynku. Diagram: Kaidor, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.”

16. Jetstream_-_Rossby_Waves_-_N_hemisphere.svg

  • What it shows: Simple schematic of the polar jet stream meandering as Rossby waves over the Northern Hemisphere – exactly the kind of wavy disturbance that grew in Phillips’s 1956 simulation through baroclinic instability.
  • File page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jetstream_-Rossby_Waves-_N_hemisphere.svg
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Jetstream_-Rossby_Waves-_N_hemisphere.svg
  • License: CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Author / date: Wikimedia user “Fred the Oyster,” 7 September 2014.
  • Why it suits the post: Pair with the general-circulation diagram. This one shows Rossby waves explicitly – naming Rossby in the figcaption gives you a Rossby-Charney-Phillips visual lineage (Rossby waves -> Charney baroclinic instability -> Phillips simulating both in 1956).
  • Suggested filename in repo: Jetstream_Rossby_waves.svg
  • Suggested caption: “Schemat fal Rossby’ego w prądzie strumieniowym (jet stream) półkuli północnej. Tego rodzaju meandrujące zaburzenia są właśnie tym, co rosło w modelu Phillipsa z 1956 roku z drobnych fluktuacji wedle mechanizmu niestabilności baroklinicznej Charneya. Diagram: ‘Fred the Oyster’, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.”

17. Carl-Gustaf_Rossby,_1935.jpg (alternate Rossby, optional)

  • What it shows: Higher-resolution alternate Rossby portrait from the LA Times Photographic Collection at UCLA Library, dated 1935 (the year Rossby moved from MIT to head the new US Weather Bureau Research Division).
  • File page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl-Gustaf_Rossby,_1935.jpg
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Carl-Gustaf_Rossby%2C_1935.jpg
  • License: CC BY 4.0 (Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection at UCLA Library; copyright transferred to UCLA, CC BY 4.0 release).
  • Author / date: Los Angeles Times, 1935.
  • Use: Higher resolution than the Harris & Ewing 1939 – pick whichever is sharper in your layout. The 1939 LOC version is already in repo, so default to that.

18. Rosenwald-Hall-Szmurlo.jpg

  • What it shows: Julius Rosenwald Hall, University of Chicago, the Gothic-style geology/geography building that housed the Rossby-era meteorology group in the 1940s (Reynolds Club was the institute’s HQ, but met courses and research were spread across Rosenwald/Ryerson). Phillips would have walked through this building as a grad student 1947-51.
  • File page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosenwald-Hall-Szmurlo.jpg
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Rosenwald-Hall-Szmurlo.jpg
  • License: CC BY 3.0 / GFDL (dual)
  • Author / date: Chuck Szmurlo (Cszmurlo), 28 October 2007.
  • Why it suits the post: Establishes “the place” for the Chicago grad-student years. CAVEAT: the Henry Hinds Laboratory (which now houses Geophysical Sciences) was built 1968-69 – it is WRONG for the Phillips grad-student period. Do not use Henry Hinds. Rosenwald Hall is the appropriate institutional anchor for 1940s-1950s Chicago meteorology.
  • Suggested filename in repo: Rosenwald_Hall_UChicago.jpg
  • Suggested caption: “Rosenwald Hall na University of Chicago – gotycki budynek, w którym w latach 40. mieściła się część działalności Institute of Meteorology Rossby’ego. Phillips studiował tutaj 1947-51 (najpierw chemia, potem meteorologia pod George’em Platzmanem). Fotografia: Chuck Szmurlo, CC BY 3.0.”

19. Casco_Bay_from_Falmouth,_ME.jpg

  • What it shows: Coastal vista from Falmouth, Maine looking out at Little and Great Diamond islands. From a 1910 postcard, so unambiguously public domain.
  • File page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casco_Bay_from_Falmouth,_ME.jpg
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Casco_Bay_from_Falmouth%2C_ME.jpg
  • License: Public domain (US, pre-1929 publication).
  • Author / date: Hugh C. Leighton Co., 1910 postcard.
  • Caveat: Phillips’s listed obituary place of death is Grace House, Windham, NH, not Falmouth, ME. Verify your bio source for the late-life location before captioning. If Phillips retired in Falmouth, this is a nice quiet establishing shot for the “after MIT/NMC” section. If not, swap in a New Hampshire image instead.
  • Suggested caption (if Falmouth is correct): “Wybrzeże Casco Bay od strony Falmouth, Maine, na pocztówce z 1910 roku. Pocztówka: Hugh C. Leighton Co., domena publiczna (sprzed 1929).”

20. HarpswellME_CascoBayFromPottsPoint.jpg (modern Maine coast alternative)

  • What it shows: Modern color photograph of Casco Bay from Potts Point on the mainland of Harpswell, Maine. Higher resolution than the 1910 postcard, contemporary color.
  • File page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarpswellME_CascoBayFromPottsPoint.jpg
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/HarpswellME_CascoBayFromPottsPoint.jpg
  • License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (also dual GFDL)
  • Author / date: Wikimedia user Magicpiano, 31 July 2018.
  • Use: Modern alternative to the 1910 postcard.

21. Mill_Brook,_Falmouth_Foreside.jpg

  • What it shows: Modern color photograph of Mill Brook in Falmouth Foreside, Maine – quiet woodland stream, appropriate “retirement” mood.
  • File page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mill_Brook,_Falmouth_Foreside.jpg
  • Direct URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Mill_Brook%2C_Falmouth_Foreside.jpg
  • License: CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Author / date: Seasider53, 16 May 2023.
  • Use: If you want a literal Falmouth Foreside photo rather than a wider Casco Bay shot.

C. DO NOT USE – tempting but legally unsafe

IAS Archives photos (Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Princeton)

  • IAS holds many photographs of von Neumann, Bigelow, Goldstine, Charney, Phillips at the machine – including the 1952 dedication group photos, the Charney-Smagorinsky-Phillips-Lewis-Gilbarg-Platzman group in front of the computer (photographed by Joseph Smagorinsky himself), etc. All require written permission from archives@ias.edu unless they have been individually uploaded to Commons. Do not lift from albert.ias.edu or ias.edu directly. The two-man and four-man IAS-machine photos that ARE on Commons (Oppenheimer_and_von_Neumann… and Julian_Bigelow.jpg) are the only safe IAS shots and we already have them.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives – Charney_Jule_D1

  • The famous 1952 Smagorinsky-shot photo of “the Meteorology Project at IAS” (Charney + Phillips + Lewis + Gilbarg + Platzman in front of the machine) is held by AIP ESVA. Not on Commons, not free-licensed. AIP’s standard image license requires per-use permission for publication. This would have been the dream image – showing Phillips alongside Charney at the IAS machine in 1952, exactly the moment the post pivots on – but it is not available for free reuse. Do not lift from AIP. Mention in text that the photo exists, with a citation to AIP ESVA, but do not embed.

MIT Museum / MIT News press photos of Phillips and Charney

  • MIT Museum holdings and MIT News press images are not released under CC unless individually tagged. The MIT Museum’s portrait of Phillips at his desk, the MIT-era photo of Charney at the blackboard, the “Chaos and Climate” symposium 2018 photos – all press-use-only. The Jule_Gregory_Charney.png file IS in this category but Wikimedia accepts it under PD-US-1978-89 because it was published in MIT promotional material 1978-89 without copyright notice – so for that specific file the PD claim survives Commons review. Do not generalize – other MIT Museum photos of Phillips are not safe.

AMS Bulletin obituary photos of Phillips

  • BAMS obituaries are AMS copyright (post-1977). Not reusable.

The 1956 QJRMS Phillips paper figures

  • The original Figure 1 grid layout, Figure 2 model schematic, and the cyclone-development figures from “The general circulation of the atmosphere: a numerical experiment” (QJRMS 82, 1956) are RMS copyright. Do NOT scan or reuse. This is the same prohibition that applies to AMS journal figures pre-2014.

Henry Hinds Laboratory (UChicago)

  • Built 1968-69. Phillips was a grad student 1946-51, before this building existed. Using a Henry Hinds photo for the Chicago section would be a factual error. Use Rosenwald Hall (1916) or Reynolds Club / Ryerson (1894) instead – those are buildings Phillips would actually have walked through.

Getty Images / Alamy / commercial stock of Phillips, Charney, IAS, MIT, NMC

  • All commercial. Not Commons. Not reusable.

CHM (Computer History Museum) catalog photos

  • The same rule as for the Cyber 205 post (Post 42) applies: CHM photos of IAS-machine artifacts at the museum are NOT free-licensed even though the artifacts themselves are PD-by-age. Do not lift from computerhistory.org. Use Wikimedia uploads only.

D. Verification checklist before publishing

For each image you embed, the final caption block in the Markdown post should include:

  1. The author or photographer name (exact spelling).
  2. The license tag (CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 / PD-USGov / PD-Harris-Ewing / PD-US-1978-89 / etc.).
  3. For PD images, the basis (PD-old / PD-USGov / PD-no notice).
  4. For CC images, the version number (3.0 vs 4.0) – they ARE different licenses.
  5. A pointer to the Commons file page (helpful for readers who want to verify).

Run before publishing:

# Confirm all referenced images exist locally
grep -oE '/assets/images/[a-zA-Z0-9_.\-]+' _posts/<your-post>.md | sort -u | while read f; do
  test -f ".$f" || echo "MISSING: $f"
done

E. Summary – recommended 9-image set for the Phillips post

If the post needs a tight image set ordered roughly by narrative arc:

  1. Norman_Phillips_2004_NWP50.jpg – opening biographical portrait, PD-USGov-NOAA (#12 above). NEW.
  2. Rossby_1939_LOC.jpg – Rossby Harris-Ewing 1939, PD. Already in repo (#6).
  3. Rosenwald_Hall_UChicago.jpg – the 1940s Chicago grad-student years, CC BY 3.0 (#18). NEW.
  4. John_von_Neumann_LANL.jpg – the IAS sponsor, PD-LANL (#14). NEW.
  5. IAS_bigelow_goldstine_oppenheimer_vonneumann.jpg – the Princeton team, CC BY-SA 3.0. Already in repo (#7).
  6. IAS_pomerene_williams_tube.jpg – the Williams-tube memory tech, CC BY-SA 4.0. Already in repo (#9).
  7. Jule_Charney_portrait.png – the dissertation advisor’s mentor and recruiter, PD-US-1978-89 (#13). NEW.
  8. Earth_Global_Circulation.svg – what the 1956 model recovered, CC BY-SA 3.0 (#15). NEW.
  9. MIT_Green_Building_2017.jpg – the MIT chair years 1970-74, CC BY-SA 4.0. Already in repo (#4).
  10. World_Weather_Building_1974.png – the NMC late career 1974-88, PD-USGov-NOAA. Already in repo (#5).

That gives you 6 brand-new candidates to download plus 4 existing reuses. The arc lands on operational forecasting – the long career exit from theory into the day-to-day work of the federal weather machine that Phillips’s own 1956 paper had helped create.

Optional add-ons if the post is long:

  • Jetstream_Rossby_waves.svg (#16) for a Rossby-wave visual at the baroclinic-instability beat.
  • Casco_Bay_from_Falmouth,_ME.jpg (#19) for the late-life retirement section if you can confirm Falmouth Maine was his retirement home (the Wikipedia obituary lists Windham NH as place of death – verify before captioning).
  • One of the GFDL-era portraits (Bryan, Manabe, Smagorinsky) if the post lands on Phillips-as-godfather-of-GFDL.