Bergen School of Meteorology

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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.

Contents 1 Bjerknes' assistants during the period 1917-1926: 2 See also 3 Related articles 4 External links

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• Norwegian cyclone model

[edit] Related articles

• Cyclogenesis
• Surface weather analysis

[edit] External links

• (English) Biography of Jacob Bjerknes by Arnt Eliassen with description of the School