Open AccessComment [on “Norwegians led the way in training wartime weather officers”]
Author(s) -
McPeak William
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/99eo00077
Subject(s) - sverdrup , norwegian , perspective (graphical) , history , meteorology , art history , geography , geology , oceanography , philosophy , art , visual arts , arctic , linguistics
With such a rarity of historical pieces dealing with the atmospheric sciences, Sheldon Levin's article ( Eos , December 30, 1997) recalling the wartime weather school at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) was most welcomed. For further perspective's sake, I wish to point out a few discrepancies in the article as well as some background information. Jacob Bjerknes, Jorgen Holmboe,and Harald Sverdrup were all disciples of Jacob's father's (Vilhelm Bjerknes) seminal dynamic/synoptic meteorology work (the so called Bergen School) in Norway early in the century. Sverdrup was among the first students—followed by Jacob, then Holmboe. Joseph Kaplan of UCLA actively recruited Jacob, whose offer from Berkeley was from the geography department rather than the geology department.