This is a tribute to the scientific career and life of Jule G. Charney (1917-1981).

Frontispiece.- Contributors.- Foreword.- Jule Charney's Vitae and Primary Publications.- Part I. JULE CHARNEY'S LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS.- 1 Charney Remembered.- 2 The Atmosphere - A Challenge.- Part II. JULE CHARNEY'S INFLUENCE.- 3 Charney - A Remarkable Colleague.- 4 Charney and the Revival of Numerical Weather Predication.- 5 Charney's Influence on Meteorology.- 6 Charney's Influence on Physical Oceanography.- 7 Charney's Influence on Desert Research.- 8 Charney as a leader of GARP.- 9 Charney as a Bowie Laureate.- Part III. JULE CHARNEY'S ACHIEVEMENTS.- 10 Baroclinic Instability: The Charney Paradigm.- 11 The Emergence of Quasi-Geostrophic Theory.- 12 Charney's Work on Vertically Propagating Rossby Waves.- Part IV. JULE CHARNEY'S WORK.- 13 They Dynamics of Long Waves in a Baroclinic Westerly Current (1947).- 14 On the Scale of Atmospheric Motions (1948).- 15 Numerical Integration of the Barotropic Vorticity Equation (1950).- 16 The Gulf Stream as an Inertial Boundary Layer (1955).- 17 Propagation of Planetary-Scale Disturbances from the Lower into the Upper Atmosphere (1961).