TheBergen school of meteorology is a school of thought which is the basis for much of modernweather forecasting.
Founded by the meteorologistProf. Vilhelm Bjerknes and his younger colleagues in 1917, the Bergen School attempts to define the motion of theatmosphere by means of themathematics of interactions betweenhydro- andthermodynamics, some of which had originally been discovered or explained by Bjerknes himself, thus making mathematical predictions regarding theweather possible by systematic data analysis. Much of the work was done at theGeophysical Institute,University of Bergen, inBergen,Norway.
The Bergen school was crucial in the early development and operationalization of numerical weather forecasting in the 1940s and 1950s, which was largely a cooperation betweenScandinavian andUS researchers.[1] In this development, extant meteorological theories were synthesized. Due to the vast amount of calculations necessary for producing viable forecasts, the mathematical models were adapted to computer programs.[2] The cross-Atlantic cooperations was also important to the development of the Bergen School and the Norwegian meteorology community[3]
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