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Atmospheric scientists

Cleveland Abbe Cleveland Abbe (December 3, 1838 in New York City – December 29, 1916 in Chevy Chase, Maryland) was a famous American meteorologist and advocate of time zones. ... For other uses, see Aristotle (disambiguation). ... Sir David Bates, FRS (born 18 November 1916) was an Irish mathematician and physicist. ... Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, FRS, FRGS (7 May 1774 – 17 December 1857) was an Irish hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy. ... Tor Bergeron (1891 August 15 - 1977 June 13) is the Swedish meteorologist who proposed a mechanism for the formation of precipitation in clouds. ... This article lacks information on the subject matters importance. ... Vilhelm Bjerknes Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes (March 14, 1862 - April 9, 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting. ... Bert R. Bolin (born 15 March 1925) is a Swedish meteorologist who served as Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from 1988 to 1998. ... Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort (November 5, 1855 in Paris, France – January 2, 1913 in Cannes, France) was a French meteorologist who became famous for his discovery of the stratosphere. ... Keith Browning is a British meteorologist who worked at Imperial College, the Met Office and University of Reading department of meteorology. ... Sir David Brunt (June 17, 1886 – February 5, 1965) was a British meteorologist. ... Donald Christopher Burgess (born February 8, 1933) is a retired track cyclist from Great Britain, who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. ... C.H.D. Buys Ballot Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot (also Christoph Heinrich Diedrich Buys Ballot) (October 10, 1817-February 3, 1890) Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys-Ballots law and the Buys Ballot table are called. ... Horace Robert Byers (b. ... Jule Gregory Charney (January 1, 1917 – June 16, 1981) was an American meteorologist who played an important role in developing weather prediction. ... == [[ Isaac Cline om sri sathya sai ram Isaac Monroe Cline (October 13, 1861 – August 3, 1955) was the chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas office of the US Weather Bureau from 1889 to 1901. ... Balfour Watson Currie, C.C., B.Sc. ... John Dalton John Dalton (September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844) was an English chemist and physicist, born at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland. ... William Morris Davis (February 12, 1850 - February 5, 1934) was an American geographer, geologist and meteorologist, often called the father of American geography. He was born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of Edward M. Davis and Maria Mott Davis (a daughter of the womens advocate Lucretia... Jean-André Deluc (8 February 1727 - 7 November 1817) was a Swiss geologist and meteorologist. ... Dusan Djuric (born September 16, 1984 in Loznica, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Swedish football midfielder, of Serbian descent. ... Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (October 6, 1803 – April 4, 1879) was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist. ... Vagn Walfrid Ekman (May 3, 1874 - March 9, 1954) was a Swedish oceanographer. ... Kerry Emanuel is an American Professor of Meteorology currently working at MIT in Boston. ... William Ferrel This page is about the meteorologist; for the comedian, see Will Ferrell. ... John Park Finley John Park Finley (b. ... Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwins famous voyage, and as a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality. ... Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most well known Founding Fathers of the United States. ... Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (藤田哲也, October 23, 1920–November 19, 1998) was one of the great severe storms researchers of the twentieth century. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... William M. Bill Gray, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU), and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at CSUs Department of Atmospheric Sciences. ... Thomas P. Grazulis (born 1942) is a meteorologist who has written extensively about tornadoes and is head of the Tornado Project. ... George Hadley (1685-1768) was an English lawyer and amateur meteorologist who proposed the atmospheric mechanism by which the Trade Winds were sustained. ... // Portrait of Edmond Halley painted around 1687 by Thomas Murray (Royal Society, London) Portrait of Edmond Halley Bust of Edmond Halley in the Museum of the Royal Greenwich Observatory Edmond Halley FRS (sometimes Edmund; IPA: ) (November 8, 1656 – January 14, 1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist. ... Julius von Hann (1839-1921) was an Austrian meteorologist. ... Fredrick Kenneth Hare (February 5, 1919 - September 3, 2002) was a Canadian meteorologist and academic, who researched atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate change, drought, and arid zone climates. ... Professor Brian Hoskins FRS is a British dynamical meteorologist and climatologist based at the University of Reading. ... Luke Howard Luke Howard (November 28, 1772 – March 21, 1864) was a British meteorologist with broad interests in science. ... Wladimir Peter Köppen (September 25, 1846 in Saint Petersburg, Russia — June 22, 1940 in Graz, Austria) was a German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist. ... This is a Chinese name; the family name is Shen Shen Kuo or Shen Kua (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) (1031–1095) was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). ... Hubert H. Lamb was an English climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. ... Richard Siegmund Lindzen, Ph. ... Dr. Lorenz at work Edward Norton Lorenz is an American mathematician and meteorologist, and a contributor to the chaos theory and inventor of the strange attractor notion. ... Charles Frederick Marvin (1858- ?), was an American meteorologist, born at Putnam, Ohio. ... Patrick Duncan McTaggart-Cowan, O.C., M.B.E., D.Sc. ... Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. ... Milutin Milanković (1879–1958) Milutin Milanković (Serbian Cyrillic: Милутин Миланковић) (also known as Milankovitch) (May 28, 1879, Dalj near Osijek, (Austria-Hungary) – December 12, 1958, Belgrade) was a Serbian geophysicist, best known for his theory of ice ages, relating variations of the Earths orbit and long-term climate change, now known... Erik Palmén (1898-1985) was the most famous researcher of meteorology in Finland. ... Allen Pearson was the Director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center from 1965-79 and began to collaborate with Dr. Fujita on tornado physical characteristics soon after the 1970 Lubbock tornado. ... The weather on June 5th, 1944 Sverre Petterssen (1898-1974) was a Norwegian meteorologist, he was a big figure in the field of weather analysis and forecasting and an international leader in meteorology. ... Ron W. Przybylinski is an American meteorologist with primary areas of interest in bow echoes, mesovortices, and quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) tornadoes. ... William John Macquorn Rankine (July 2, 1820 - December 24, 1872) was a Scottish engineer and physicist. ... John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who (with William Ramsay) discovered the element argon, an achievement that earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. ... For the Hollyoaks character, see Lewis Richardson (Hollyoaks) Lewis Fry Richardson (October 11, 1881 - September 30, 1953) was an innovative mathematician, physicist and psychologist. ... Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby (December 28, 1898 – August 19, 1957) was a Swedish-US meteorologist who first explained the large_scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics. ... Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (February 17, 1740 - January 22, 1799) was a Swiss physicist and Alpine traveller. ... George James Symons (August 6, 1838 - March 10, 1900) , English meteorologist, was born in Pimlico, London. ... Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (7 March 1886 - 27 June 1975) was a physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. ... Vilho Väisälä (September 28, 1889 – August 12, 1969) was a Finnish meteorologist and physicist, and founder of Vaisala. ... Dr. Bernard Vonnegut (August 29, 1914 – April 25, 1997) was an atmospheric scientist credited with discovering that silver iodide could be used effectively in cloud seeding to produce snow and rain. ... Alfred Wegener, around 1925 Alfred Lothar Wegener (Berlin, November 1, 1880 – Greenland, November 2 or 3, 1930) was a German interdisciplinary scientist and meteorologist, who became famous for his theory of continental drift (Kontinentalverschiebung or die Verschiebung der Kontinente in his words). ... Heinrich Wild I (1833-1902) was a Swiss meteorologist and physicist. ... Joshua Wurman (b. ...

Weather presenters

Ben Abell has been a professor of meteorology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Saint Louis University (SLU) since 1962[1]. He also volunteered as the sole meteorologist for St. ... Suzanne Charlton was born in Urmston, Lancashire. ... Spencer Christian (born on July 23, 1947 in Charles City, Virginia) is an American television broadcaster, best known as the former weather forecaster for ABCs Good Morning America from 1986 to 1998. ... Barbara Edwards became the BBCs first female television weather presenter in January 1974. ... Michael Fish (born April 27, 1944) was a weather forecaster, most known for his BBC television weather presentations, although he was actually employed by the Met Office. ... Greg Forbes is The Weather Channels current severe weather expert and has a significant research background in the areas of severe storms and tornadoes. ... Gary England is the chief meteorologist for KWTV-9 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ... Bill Giles is a British weather forecaster and television presenter. ... Dr. Mel Goldstein Dr. Mel Goldstein (or Dr. Mel) is an American meteorologist, best known as the chief meteorologist for News Channel 8 in Connecticut. ... John Raymond Hope (May 4, 1919-June 13, 2002) was an American meteorologist who specialized in hurricane forecasting and was an on-air personality on The Weather Channel. ... Janice Huff (born September 1, 1960) is an American local and national television meteorologist // As she has sometimes noted on her newscast, though born in New York City, at an early age she moved to her grandparents in Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated from Eau Claire High School with honors... John Kettley is a freelance weatherman. ... Colleen Jones (born December 16, 1959 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is the most successful Canadian womens skip in curling history. ... Eva Ulrika Jonsson (born 16 August 1967)) is a Swedish television presenter whose most famous work has been on British television. ... Jörg Kachelmann (b. ... Don Kent (meteorologist) Don Kent was a meteorologist for several decades in Boston. ... David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.) is an award-winning American comedian, late night talk show host, television producer, philanthropist, and IRL IndyCar Series car owner. ... Image:ITVSiânLloyd. ... Ian McCaskill (born July 28, 1938) is a former BBC weatherman. ... Tony Perkins was the weather forecaster for ABCs Good Morning America. ... Audrey Puente on WCBS in 2006. ... Larry Rice (born March 24, 1946, Linden, Indiana), is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series. ... Al Roker (born August 20, 1954) is an American television broadcaster, best known as the weather anchor for NBCs Today show. ... Willard Herman Scott, Jr. ... Tom Skilling on WGN News at Noon in 2005. ... Odd Reinsfelt (born 1941) is a Norwegian Conservative politician and meteorologist. ... Harold Taft, 1975 Harold Ernest Taft Jr. ... Harry Volkman is a popular former meteorologist from Oklahoma and later Chicago, Illinois. ... Wincey Willis (born 8th November 1949) was a British television presenter in the 1980s. ...

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