Bergen School of Meteorology
- Bergen School of Meteorology
The "Bergen School of Meteorology" is a school of thought which is the basis for much of modern weather forecasting.
Founded by the meteorologist Prof. Vilhelm Bjerknes and his younger co-workers in 1917, the Bergen School attempts to define the motion of the atmosphere by means of the mathematics of interactions between hydro- and thermodynamics, some of which had originally been discovered or explained by Bjerknes himself, thus making mathematical predictions regarding the weather possible by systematic data analysis.
Bjerknes' assistants during the period 1917-1926:
*Jacob Bjerknes
*Halvor Solberg
*Tor Bergeron
*Carl-Gustaf Rossby
*Sverre Petterssen
*Erik Palmén
*Erik Björkdal
*Svein Rosseland
*Carl Ludvig Godske
*Johan Sandström
ee also
*Norwegian cyclone model
Related articles
* Cyclogenesis
* Surface weather analysis
External links
* [http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/jbjerknes.html Biography of Jacob Bjerknes] by Arnt Eliassen with description of the School
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