The Travelers Weather Research Center (1954-1961) was the world's first privately-owned research institute for the scientific study of weather.
It pioneered the use of statistical methods, mathematical models, and computers to improve weather forecasting techniques, and was the first to state weather predictions in terms of probabilities ("20% chance of rain").
The Travelers Weather Research Center was established by J. Doyle DeWitt, president of the Travelers Insurance Company, to more accurately estimate weather phenomena with relation to property damage, crop losses, and accidents.
Under Malone's direction, the center won the 1958 Gold Medal from the New York Board of Trade for its research.
In 1969, the subsidiary was incorporated as the Research Corporation of New England, also known as TRC, which continues to this day.