Prior to joining the Florida State faculty, he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles.

[1] In 2006, he co-authored An Introduction to Global Spectral Modeling, Second Edition, Springer, 317 pp.

In 1985, the American Meteorological Society awarded him the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal.

[1] In 2012 the Indian Meteorological Society gave him their Sir Gilbert Walker Gold Medal.

[2] A symposium in his honor was held in 2012 as part of the American Meteorological Society annual meeting in New Orleans.