[2] In 1959, Orlanski enrolled in the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (Spanish: Facultad de Ciencias Exactas) at the University of Buenos Aires, where he studied physics.
[3] His thesis, titled Instability of Frontal Waves, earned the Carl Gustav Rossby Award.
[4] Orlanski moved to the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL),[5] where he initially worked with Joseph Smagorinsky.
[8] While on sabbatical in Argentina in 1985, Orlanski established an organization for numerical modeling that became the Centro de Investigaciones para el Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA).
[13] This framework was used in the design of field experiments for mesoscale observations, as well as in defining the spatial and temporal scales necessary for forecast models.