Sverre Petterssen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sverre Petterssen was a Norwegian meteorologist, prominent in the field of weather analysis and forecasting. Early life Born in Norway into a humble family, he paid for his higher education by working at the telegraph office, and a nursery provided by the armed forces that he joined as a recruit. He studied in Bergen where he met Tor Bergeron during a lecture, and was so impressed by his analysis of a 1922 storm that he joined the Bergen School of Meteorology in 1923. In the late 1920s, he worked at the Geophysical Institute in Tromsø, northern Norway.
Sverre Petterssen's Published Works
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- Weather analysis and forecasting (1940) (540)
- On the development of extratropical cyclones (1971) (287)
- Introduction to Meteorology (1941) (135)
- Motion and motion systems (1956) (69)
- a General Survey of Factors Influencing Development at Sea Level. (1955) (68)
- ON SOME WEATHER INFLUENCES DUE TO WARMING OF THE AIR BY THE GREAT LAKES IN WINTER (1959) (66)
- On the Causes and the Forecasting of the California Fog (1936) (53)
- Changes in the General Circulation Associated with the Recent Climatic Variation (1949) (38)
- On the Relation between Vorticity, Deformation and Divergence and the Configuration of the Pressure Field (1953) (26)
- REPORT OF AN EXPERIMENT IN FORECASTING OF CYCLONE DEVELOPMENT (1955) (26)
- Weather Analysis And Forecasting. 1st Ed. (1940) (26)
- Weather analysis and forecasting : a textbook on synoptic meteorology (1942) (21)
- Weather Observations, Analysis, and Forecasting (1957) (17)
- On the application of the richardson criterion to large ‐ scale turbulence in the free atmosphere (1947) (16)
- On the propagation and growth of jet‐stream waves (1952) (13)
- An investigation of subsidence in the free atmosphere (1947) (11)
- Cyclogenesis over Southeastern United States and the Atlantic Coast (1941) (9)
- Fronts and frontogenesis in relation to vorticity (1942) (9)
- Weather and weather systems (1956) (9)
- On the dynamics of the indian monsoon (1953) (7)
- Contribution to the theory of pressure variations (1945) (7)
- Meteorology of the Arctic (1956) (7)
- The Atmospheric Sciences 1961–1971 (1962) (4)
- recent demographic trends and future meteorological services (1966) (4)
- Cloud and weather modification : a group of field experiments (1957) (3)
- meteorological problems: weather modification and long-range forecasting (1964) (3)
- Recent Fog Investigations (1941) (3)
- On the Sensitivity of the Wind Field Relative to Pressure Variations (1950) (2)
- A Note on Verification of Prognostic Charts (1957) (2)
- HEAT EXCHANGE AND CYCLONE DEVELOPMENT ON THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN (1961) (2)
- An outline of international programs in the atmospheric sciences (1963) (2)
- AN INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURE OF CLOUD AND WEATHER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATED WITH CYCLONES IN THE UNITED STATES (1963) (1)
- Reports on Experiments with Artificial Cloud Nucleation (1957) (1)
- Meteorology as a Science and a Service (1960) (1)
- HEAT EXCHANGE AND WEATHER FORECASTING (1959) (1)
- Cloud and Weather Modification (1957) (1)
- AN EXPERIMENT IN PROGNOSTICATION (1957) (1)
- Dynamic Meteorology and Weather Forecasting . C. L. Godske, T. Bergeron, J. Bjerknes, and R. C. Bundgaard. American Meteorological Society, Boston, and Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1957. xvi + 800 pp. Illus. $15. (1957) (0)
- Physical Sciences: Dynamic Meteorology and Weather Forecasting (1957) (0)
- 1959—A Year of Growth (1960) (0)
- 1001 Questions Answered About the Weather . Frank H. Forrester. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1957. 419 pp. Illus. + plates. $6. (1958) (0)
- STUDIES IN WEATHER ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING. (1963) (0)
- Expected Developments in Meteorology During the Coming Ten-Year Period (1960) (0)
- The Rossby Memorial Fund—An Appeal for Contributions (1958) (0)
- SECTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND METEOROLOGY: THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE* (1951) (0)
- Book Reviews: 1001 Questions Answered About the Weather (1958) (0)
- Condensation caused by mixing (1942) (0)
- Thermodynamics of clouds: by Louis Dufour and Raymond Defay. International Geophysics Series, Vol. 6, 255 pages, diagrams, 6 × 9 in. New York, Academic Press, 1963. Price, $10.00 (1965) (0)
- 1958 A Year of Progress (1959) (0)
- Weather Analysis and Forecasting: A Textbook on Synoptic Meteorology@@@Introduction to Meteorology (1942) (0)
- The Vilhelm Bjerknes Centenary1 (1962) (0)
- Meteorological Research Reviews (1957) (0)
- ON THE MAGNITUDE OF CYCLONE DEVELOPMENT AND THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE-SCALE MODIFICATIONS (1955) (0)
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