Hermann Flohn

Hermann Flohn (February 19, 1912 - June 23, 1997) was "one of the world greatest climatologists"(1). Flohn was professor at the University of Bonn and head of the department at the Institute of Meteorology of Bonn University. He produced about 360 publications.Flohn was member in numerous scientific socieies such as the Bavarian Academy, the Leopoldina in Saxonia, and the Royal Belgium Academy (2).

In 1941 Flohn published the first German article concerning anthropogenic climate change. From 1950, Flohn helped develop the theory of atmospheric circulation. Flohn was one of the first and leading global climate change researchers.

Selected works

* Flohn H. 1941: Die Tätigkeit des Menschen als Klimafaktor. Z. f. Erdkunde, 9, 13-22.
* [http://www.iiasa.ac.at/cgi-bin/pubsrch?ER81003 "Life on a Warmer Earth--Possible Climatic Consequences of Man-Made Global Warming"] , 1981.
* [http://www.iiasa.ac.at/cgi-bin/pubsrch?RR80030 "Possible Climatic Consequences of a Man-Made Global Warming"] , 1980.
* Flohn H. 1954: Witterung und Klima in Mitteleuropa, 2. Auflage. Forschungen zur Deutschen Landeskunde, 78, S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart, S. 214.
* Flohn H. 1968: Contributions to a meteorology of the Tibetan highlands In: Atmospheric Science Paper 130, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 120 p.
* Flohn H. 1968: Le temps et le climat. L´Univ. Connaissances, Hachette, Paris.
* Flohn H. 1968: Clima y tiempo. Biblioteca para el Hombre Actual, Ediciones Guadarrama, Madrid.
* Flohn H. 1969: Climate and Weather. World Univ. Library, McGraw-Hill, New York.
* Flohn H. 1969: Local wind systems. In: World survey of climatology, Vol. 2, General climatology 2, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 139-171.
* Flohn H. 1971: Arbeiten zur allgemeinen Klimatologie. 315 S. Wiss. Buchges., Darmstadt.
* Flohn H., Fantechi R. 1984: The climate of Europe: Past, Present and Future. D. Reidel Publ. Comp., Dordrecht.
* Flohn H. 1985: Das Problem der Klimaänderungen in Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Erträge der Forschung, Bd. 220, Wiss. Buchges., Darmstadt.
* Flohn H. 1977: Climate and Energy: A Scenario to a 21st Century Problem. Climatic Change, 1, 5-20
* Flohn H. 1979: Climatology as a Geophysical Science. Climate Monitor, Special Edition, March 1979, Hubert Lamb - Professor Emeritus, 10-18. (Gewidmet H. Lamb zum 65. Geburtstag)
* Flohn H. 1979: Summary Review and some thoughts on future climatic evolutions. In: NES Colleque International: Evolution des Atmosohères Planetaires et Climatologie de la Terre, Nice 16-20 Oct. 1978, 569-574.
* Flohn H. 1979: Possible Climatic Consequences of a Man-Made Global Warming. In:Working Paper, Internat. Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, WP 79-86 (XI + 103 p). (auch in Internat. Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, RR-80-30, Dec. 1980)
* Flohn H. 1980: Man's increasing impact on climate: Atmospheric Processes. In: N. Polunin (Ed.): Growth without ecodisaster? Proc. 2nd Intern. Conf. Environmental Future. Reykjavik, June 1977, McMillan Press, London, 31-44. (Diskussion 45-59)
* Flohn H. 1980: Possible climatic consequences of a man-made global warming. In: R. Kavanagh (Ed.): Energy System Analysis. Proc. Intern. Conf. Dublin, 9-11 Oct. 1979, D. Reidel Publ. Comp., Dordrecht, 558-568. (1981: Life on a warmer Earth, Possible climatic consequences of man-made global warming. Executive Report 3, based on research by H. Flohn, Intern. Inst. for Applied System Analysis IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, pp. 59.)

References

*(1) C.D Craig: Flohn, Hermann. In: The Encyclopedia of World Climatology.2005, p. 379
*(2) Obituary, January 1998. Klaus Fraedich Hermann Flohn. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 124 (546), Part B, p.653

Awards

* WMO [http://www.wmo.ch/web-en/awards_imo.html International meteorological association prize] , 1986 (nb: this page doesn't display properly in Mozilla)

External links

* http://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/deutsch/mflohn/