Vilhelm Timeline Treasure Hunt [Chapters 8, and 9],
Event
Vilhelm attempts to lay down a stable foundation on which he can
develop a school of meteorology for the postwar era
The electoral platform of Prime Minister Knudsen’s liberal party
includes the development of research capabilities in Norway
The wealthy merchant Johan Mowinckel donates a large house to the
Bergen museum for the meteorology group of the Geophysical Institute
Vilhelm becomes head of the West Norwegian Weather Bureau
The year of the summer forecasting experiment in which Vilhelm
divides the southern half of Norway into nineteen forecasting districts
In an August lecture, Vilhelm relates how numerous lines of
convergence had swept across the coast during the summer
Year of publication of the figure depicting a squall surface in
which the peculiar shape of the “head” of the advancing cold air is
based on Schmidt’s laboratory of line squalls
Vilhelm travels up and down the coast of Norway to the outermost reefs
and to the remote ends of fjords, acquiring new insights into weather
prediction
Year of publication of Shaw’s first edition of Forecasting Weather
Year of case study analyzed both by Abercromby and Bergeron
Vilhelm and his assistants learn of Shaw’s cyclone model
First meeting of the International Meteorological Committee since
World War I
Norwegian economy enters a depression
First successful transatlantic flights
Some European nations begin taking observations four times daily
Year of publication of the figure depicting an “Early polar front”
Two conferences are held in Bergen in the summer, one for the
Allied countries in July and the other for the Central Powers
countries in August
Jacob writes to the Japanese Minister in Sweden and Norway, “Our
recent results seem to promise great progress in weather forecasting.”
Solberg writes “…will leave all of France permeated with the
Norwegian poison.”
Jacob Bjerknes writes in a letter, “It’s a question of making up
with him, now when he is becoming the big boss in Berlin after
Hellmann.”
Solberg writes, “the crystal-clear drops [of water] seem more
refreshing to a thirsty soul than a whole flood of muddy
water.”
Tie Breaker: Name the decade that Reichelderfer visited
Germany after a sojourn in Bergen
November 10, 2015
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