Tor Bergeron
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| Awards | Symons Gold Medal (1949) International Meteorological Organization Prize (1966) |
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| Fields | Meteorology |
Tor Bergeron[Bergeron Process, and is believed to be the primary process by which precipitation is formed.
Bergeron was one of the principal scientists in the
Bergen School of Meteorology, which transformed this science by introducing a new conceptual foundation for understanding and predicting weather. While developing innovative methods of forecasting, the Bergen scientists established the notion of weather fronts and elaborated a new model of extratropical cyclones that accounted for their birth, growth, and decay. Bergeron is credited with discovering the occlusion process, which marks the final stage in the life cycle of an extratropical cyclone
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In 1949 he was awarded the Symons Gold Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society.[1] In 1966 he was awarded the prestigious International Meteorological Organization Prize from the World Meteorological Organization.[2]
References
- ^ Fleming, James. Historical Essays on Meteorology, 1919–1995. p. 191.
- ^ "Winners of the IMO Prize". World Meteorological Organization. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- A complete bibliography for Bergeron can be found in Liljequist (1981):
- Liljequist, Gösta H. “Tor Bergeron: A Biography.” Pure and Applied Geophysics 119 (1981): 409–442.
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