Click here to listen to episode 619 of Weather Break.
It’s hard enough for a scientist to make one really great, world-changing discovery in the course of his or her career–most scientists probably never accomplish that. German meteorologist Alfred Wegener, however, is credited with two such discoveries. Students in the Atmospheric Sciences know that he was [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Famous Meteorologists'
Alfred Wegener
November 12th, 2009 · No Comments
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Classic Weather Break: Dr. Suzanne van Cooten–Finding Meteorology
August 5th, 2009 · No Comments
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Dr. Suzanne van Cooten of the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma is the guest on Weather Break for the next three days. She’s a respected hydrometeorologist with strong interests in a variety of academic disciplines. Today on Weather Break, we start our conversation with [...]
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Wladimir Koeppen
June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Click here to listen to episode 546 of Weather Break.
It’s surprisingly difficult to come up with a way to quantitatively describe the climate of a region, in part because it is pretty much impossible to determine what the “normal” climate is supposed to be. Early in the history of the science that came to [...]
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Classic Weather Break — Luke Howard: The Man Who Named the Clouds
May 18th, 2009 · No Comments
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Every weather enthusiast can name his or her favorite types of clouds. With a little practice, anyone can be trained to quickly spot the differences between cloud types like “cirrostratus”, “stratocumulus”, or “altocumulus”. These names are part of a cloud identification and naming system developed by [...]
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Willard Scott
March 6th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Click here to listen to episode 480 of Weather Break.
If you’ve been listening to Weather Break for any amount of time, you know that a regular feature here on the show is to talk about famous meteorologists and atmospheric scientists. We like to use the occasion of their birthdays to talk about the contributions that [...]