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Jan 1, 1000
Pomponius Mela
Formalizes the climatic zone system -
Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Invented the term, "hurricane" -
Francis Bacon
analyzes the scientific method in his Great Instauration of Learning. -
Blaise Pascal
Discovered Atmospherich Pressure. -
Christopher Wren
Invented a tipping bucket rain gauge -
Edmund Halley
presents a systematic study of the trade winds and monsoons and identifies solar heating as the cause of atmospheric motions. -
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Creates a reliable scale for measuring temperature with a mercury type theremometer -
Anders Celsius
a swedish astronomer, proposed the centigrade scale for thermometers. -
Elias Loomis
performed an experiment to gain insight into the wind speed needed to defeather a chicken. He loaded a cannon with gun powder and a chicken. -
Joseph Lockyer
Joseph Lockyer starts the scientific journal Nature. -
Nikola Tesla
Discovered radio layers. -
Vilhelm Bjerknes
Invented mathamatical forecasting -
Milutin Milankovic
proposes that long term climatic cycles may be due to changes in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and changes in the Earth's obliquity. -
Edward Appleton
DIscovered the Ionosphere -
Robert Watson-Watt
Him and his assistant Arnold Wilkins published a report in February 1935, titled The Detection of Aircraft by Radio Methods. -
Guy Stewart Callendar
Discovered global warming -CO2 -
Edward Lorenz
Discovered the Chaos Theory -
Saffir-Simpson
Invented a hurricane scale. -
Ted Fujita
introduces the Fujita scale for rating tornadoes. -
Steven R. Hare
Invented the Pacific decadal oscillation
