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International Meteorological Organization

December 07, 2023

The International Meteorological Organization (IMO; 1873–1951) was the first organization formed with the purpose of exchanging weather information among the countries of the world. It came into existence from the realization that weather systems move across country boundaries; and that knowledge of pressure, temperature, precipitations, etc. upstream and downstream is needed for weather forecasting. It was superseded by the World Meteorological Organization.

International Meteorological Organization
Established11 September 1873  (150 years ago)

History edit

The Renaissance brought significant development of instruments to measure atmospheric phenomena and scales to compare them. Subsequent developments in atmospheric science in the 18th century confirmed the need for widespread measurement and uniform transnational measurement scales.[1] In the early 19th century, countries began to share meteorological data,[2][3] and on this basis a conference was held in Cambridge in 1845 with representation by the leading British and European meteorologists, including:[4][5][6]

Matthew Fontaine Maury, of the US Navy, initiated the convening of the first true International Meteorological conference from late August through early September 1853.[8] The conference opened its proceedings at Brussels, Belgium, on 23 August 1853, in the residence of M. Piercot, the Minister of the Interior. The governments represented at the first International Conference, and the names of the officers who attended were :

  • Adolphe Quetelet, director of the Royal Observatory of Belgium and general secretary of the Academie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts with Victor Lahure, navy captain and general director of the Navy, represented Belgium.
  • P. Rothe, navy captain and director of the depot of marine charts represented Denmark.
  • A. De la Marche, hydrographic engineer for the imperial navy represented France.
  • Frederick William Beechey, captain Royal Navy and member of the Naval Department or the Board of Trade with Henry James, captain royal engineers represented the United Kingdom.
  • Marin H. Jansen, lieutenant of the Royal navy represented the Netherlands.
  • Nils Ihlen, lieutenant of the royal navy represented Norway.
  • J. De Mattos Corroêa, captain-lieutenant of the Royal navy represented Portugal.
  • Alexis Gorkovenko, captain-lieutenant the Imperial navy represented Russia.
  • Carl Anton Pettersson, first lieutenant royal navy represented Sweden.
  • Matthew Fontaine Maury, lieutenant of the Navy represented the United States.

C. H. D. Buys Ballot's 1872 paper Suggestions on a Uniform System of Meteorological Observations pushed for the creation of an international body,[9][10] and a second International Meteorological Congress was held in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, in September 1873 which agreed to begin preparations for an International Meteorological Organization (IMO). There they decided that membership would be the directors of national meteorological services. A Permanent Meteorological Committee was established with Buys Ballot, director of the Dutch meteorological service, becoming the first president.[11]

A second congress in Rome 1879 decided on the IMO establishment and elected an International Meteorological Committee to prepare for the next Conference of Directors. The director of the Central Geophysical Observatory in Saint Petersburg, Swiss born Heinrich von Wild was appointed president, and the head of British Meteorological Office, Robert Scott was appointed secretary.[12] There was however no separate funding. Also the directors agreed on a collaborative research effort with the International Polar Year 1882–1883. The first International Meteorological Tables were published in 1889.

The 1891 Conference of Directors of Meteorological Services convened in Munich. The organization was further refined by electing an Executive Bureau and deciding upon the first permanent topic commission, the Commission for Terrestrial Magnetism.

The 1896 Conference of Directors in Paris established more commissions: the Commission for Radiation and Insolation, and the Commission for Aeronautics. At the same year IMO published the first International Cloud Atlas.

In 1905 the Conference of Directors convened in Innsbruck. Léon Teisserenc de Bort proposed a telegraph-based worldwide weather station network, the Réseau Mondial. Simplifying Teisserenc de Bort's vision, the IMO decided that the network should collect, calculate, and distribute monthly and annual averages for pressure, temperature, and precipitation from a well-distributed sample of land based on meteorological stations, in effect a global climatological database. The distribution standard was two stations within each ten-degree latitude/longitude quadrangle. Ultimately, the network comprises about 500 land stations between 80°N and 61°S. The first annual data set, for 1911, appeared in 1917.

Between the two world wars there were four further Conferences of Directors, 1919 in Paris, 1923 in Utrecht, 1929 in Copenhagen and 1935 in Warsaw. The IMO did not acquire a permanent secretariat until 1926, and the latter's annual budget never exceeded US$20,000.[13]

In September 1929 the Copenhagen Conference of Directors set up a technical Commission For Climatology, which held a meeting at Innsbruck discussing issues such as the relationship between dynamic meteorology and climatology. At its 1934 Wiesbaden meeting the Commission designated the thirty-year period from 1901 to 1930 as the reference time frame for climatological standard normals. the baseline for measuring climate fluctuations.[14]

The 1946 Conference of Directors acknowledged the need for an organisation supported by governments. Preparations continued with conferences in 1947 in Washington DC and 1961 in Paris. In 1951 the World Meteorological Organization became a specialized agency of the United Nations in direct succession of the IMO. The members of the WMO are representatives of their respective countries, not their weather services.

Presidents edit

Sources edit

  1. ^ Daniell, John Frederic (1823). Meteorological Essays and Observations. London: T. and G. Underwood. OCLC 1033707236.
  2. ^ Cawood, John (1977). "Terrestrial Magnetism and the Development of International Collaboration in the Early Nineteenth Century". Annals of Science. 34 (6): 551–587. doi:10.1080/00033797700200321.
  3. ^ Herschel, John Frederick William (1846). "Address". Report of the Fifteenth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. London: Murray. p. xxix.
  4. ^ Herschel 1846, p. xxxi
  5. ^ R.H.S. (1902). "The International Meteorological Committee". Nature. 66: 608.
  6. ^ Herschel 1846, Report..., p. 69–73, 70.
  7. ^ "Bogusławski, Palon Heinrich Ludwig Pruss v. B." Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie volume 3, page 58.
  8. ^ Memories of the Bureau Of Meteorology Chapter 2: International Meteorology
  9. ^ Buys-Ballot, Christoph Heinrich Diedrich (1872). Suggestions on a Uniform System of Meteorological Observations: Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute. Printing Office "The Industry".
  10. ^ Le Treut, H.; Somerville, R.; Cubasch, U.; Ding, Y.; Mauritzen, C.; Mokssit, A.; Peterson, T.; Prather, M. (2007). (PDF). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 101. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-23. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  11. ^ E. I. Sarukhanian and J.M. Walker. (PDF). WMO. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-05-27. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  12. ^ "History of IMO". public.wmo.int. 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  13. ^ Paul N. Edwards. "Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-06-01.
  14. ^ "Commission For Climatology: Over Eighty Years of Service" (pdf). World Meteorological Organization. 2011. pp. 6, 7–8. Retrieved 1 September 2015.

WikiSource links edit

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The International Meteorological Organization IMO 1873 1951 was the first organization formed with the purpose of exchanging weather information among the countries of the world It came into existence from the realization that weather systems move across country boundaries and that knowledge of pressure temperature precipitations etc upstream and downstream is needed for weather forecasting It was superseded by the World Meteorological Organization International Meteorological OrganizationEstablished11 September 1873 150 years ago Contents 1 History 2 Presidents 3 Sources 3 1 WikiSource linksHistory editThe Renaissance brought significant development of instruments to measure atmospheric phenomena and scales to compare them Subsequent developments in atmospheric science in the 18th century confirmed the need for widespread measurement and uniform transnational measurement scales 1 In the early 19th century countries began to share meteorological data 2 3 and on this basis a conference was held in Cambridge in 1845 with representation by the leading British and European meteorologists including 4 5 6 Austrian Empire Bohemia John Parish von Senftenberg the founder of the Astronomical Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory at Senftenberg now Zamberk Austrian Empire Bohemia Karl Kreil Director of the Imperial Observatory of Prague Kingdom of Bavaria Johann von Lamont Director of the Bogenhausen Observatory in Munich Prussia Georg Adolf Erman circumnavigator and meteorologist professor at Friedrich Wilhelms Universitat Humboldt University of Berlin Prussia Dr Palon Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawski Director of the Royal Prussian Observatory in Breslau Wroclaw 7 Prussia Heinrich Wilhelm Dove of the Friedrich Wilhelms Universitat Russia Adolph Theodor Kupffer Director General of the Russian System of Magnetic and Meteorological Observation John Frederick William Herschel committee chairman for the conference Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen geologist George Peacock Dean of Ely William Whewell astronomer Humphrey Lloyd physicist George Biddell Airy the Astronomer Royal Edward Sabine astronomer and geophysicist Thomas MacDougall Brisbane astronomer John Phillips geologist Matthew Fontaine Maury of the US Navy initiated the convening of the first true International Meteorological conference from late August through early September 1853 8 The conference opened its proceedings at Brussels Belgium on 23 August 1853 in the residence of M Piercot the Minister of the Interior The governments represented at the first International Conference and the names of the officers who attended were Adolphe Quetelet director of the Royal Observatory of Belgium and general secretary of the Academie royale des sciences des lettres et des beaux arts with Victor Lahure navy captain and general director of the Navy represented Belgium P Rothe navy captain and director of the depot of marine charts represented Denmark A De la Marche hydrographic engineer for the imperial navy represented France Frederick William Beechey captain Royal Navy and member of the Naval Department or the Board of Trade with Henry James captain royal engineers represented the United Kingdom Marin H Jansen lieutenant of the Royal navy represented the Netherlands Nils Ihlen lieutenant of the royal navy represented Norway J De Mattos Corroea captain lieutenant of the Royal navy represented Portugal Alexis Gorkovenko captain lieutenant the Imperial navy represented Russia Carl Anton Pettersson first lieutenant royal navy represented Sweden Matthew Fontaine Maury lieutenant of the Navy represented the United States C H D Buys Ballot s 1872 paper Suggestions on a Uniform System of Meteorological Observations pushed for the creation of an international body 9 10 and a second International Meteorological Congress was held in Vienna Austria Hungary in September 1873 which agreed to begin preparations for an International Meteorological Organization IMO There they decided that membership would be the directors of national meteorological services A Permanent Meteorological Committee was established with Buys Ballot director of the Dutch meteorological service becoming the first president 11 A second congress in Rome 1879 decided on the IMO establishment and elected an International Meteorological Committee to prepare for the next Conference of Directors The director of the Central Geophysical Observatory in Saint Petersburg Swiss born Heinrich von Wild was appointed president and the head of British Meteorological Office Robert Scott was appointed secretary 12 There was however no separate funding Also the directors agreed on a collaborative research effort with the International Polar Year 1882 1883 The first International Meteorological Tables were published in 1889 The 1891 Conference of Directors of Meteorological Services convened in Munich The organization was further refined by electing an Executive Bureau and deciding upon the first permanent topic commission the Commission for Terrestrial Magnetism The 1896 Conference of Directors in Paris established more commissions the Commission for Radiation and Insolation and the Commission for Aeronautics At the same year IMO published the first International Cloud Atlas In 1905 the Conference of Directors convened in Innsbruck Leon Teisserenc de Bort proposed a telegraph based worldwide weather station network the Reseau Mondial Simplifying Teisserenc de Bort s vision the IMO decided that the network should collect calculate and distribute monthly and annual averages for pressure temperature and precipitation from a well distributed sample of land based on meteorological stations in effect a global climatological database The distribution standard was two stations within each ten degree latitude longitude quadrangle Ultimately the network comprises about 500 land stations between 80 N and 61 S The first annual data set for 1911 appeared in 1917 Between the two world wars there were four further Conferences of Directors 1919 in Paris 1923 in Utrecht 1929 in Copenhagen and 1935 in Warsaw The IMO did not acquire a permanent secretariat until 1926 and the latter s annual budget never exceeded US 20 000 13 In September 1929 the Copenhagen Conference of Directors set up a technical Commission For Climatology which held a meeting at Innsbruck discussing issues such as the relationship between dynamic meteorology and climatology At its 1934 Wiesbaden meeting the Commission designated the thirty year period from 1901 to 1930 as the reference time frame for climatological standard normals the baseline for measuring climate fluctuations 14 The 1946 Conference of Directors acknowledged the need for an organisation supported by governments Preparations continued with conferences in 1947 in Washington DC and 1961 in Paris In 1951 the World Meteorological Organization became a specialized agency of the United Nations in direct succession of the IMO The members of the WMO are representatives of their respective countries not their weather services Presidents editChristophorus Henricus Didericus Buys Ballot Netherlands 1873 1879 Heinrich von Wild Russia 1879 1896 Eleuthere Mascart France 1896 1907 William Napier Shaw U K 1907 1923 Ewoud van Everdingen Netherlands 1923 1935 Theodor Hesselberg Norway 1935 1946 Sir Nelson King Johnson U K 1946 1951Sources edit Daniell John Frederic 1823 Meteorological Essays and Observations London T and G Underwood OCLC 1033707236 Cawood John 1977 Terrestrial Magnetism and the Development of International Collaboration in the Early Nineteenth Century Annals of Science 34 6 551 587 doi 10 1080 00033797700200321 Herschel John Frederick William 1846 Address Report of the Fifteenth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science London Murray p xxix Herschel 1846 p xxxi R H S 1902 The International Meteorological Committee Nature 66 608 Herschel 1846 Report p 69 73 70 Boguslawski Palon Heinrich Ludwig Pruss v B Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie volume 3 page 58 Memories of the Bureau Of Meteorology Chapter 2 International Meteorology Buys Ballot Christoph Heinrich Diedrich 1872 Suggestions on a Uniform System of Meteorological Observations Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute Printing Office The Industry Le Treut H Somerville R Cubasch U Ding Y Mauritzen C Mokssit A Peterson T Prather M 2007 Historical Overview of Climate Change In Climate Change 2007 The Physical Science Basis Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Solomon S D Qin M Manning Z Chen M Marquis K B Averyt M Tignor and H L Miller eds PDF Cambridge Cambridge University Press p 101 Archived from the original PDF on 2014 09 23 Retrieved 7 July 2014 E I Sarukhanian and J M Walker The International Meteorological Organization IMO 1879 1950 PDF WMO Archived from the original PDF on 2021 05 27 Retrieved 2022 06 27 History of IMO public wmo int 2015 12 08 Retrieved 2023 10 12 Paul N Edwards Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism PDF Retrieved 2011 06 01 Commission For Climatology Over Eighty Years of Service pdf World Meteorological Organization 2011 pp 6 7 8 Retrieved 1 September 2015 WikiSource links edit First International Maritime Conference Held for Devising an Uniform System of Meteorological Observations at Sea 1853 Marin H Jansen Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title International Meteorological Organization amp oldid 1183476299, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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