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Hugo Hildebrand-Hildebrandsson

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Hildebrand-Hildebrandsson, Hugo 

Born Aug. 19, 1838, in Stockholm; died July 29, 1925, in Uppsala. Swedish meteorologist. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

From 1878 to 1906, Hildebrand-Hildebrandsson was the director of the observatory at the University of Uppsala and a professor at the university. His main works dealt with atmospheric general circulation and the interrelationship of individual centers of action.

Hildebrand-Hildebrandsson carried out cloud observations to study air currents at different altitudes. Together with L. Teis-serenc de Bort, he organized studies of the upper layers of the atmosphere by means of sounding balloons in Denmark and Sweden. Hildebrand-Hildebrandsson was one of the compilers of the International Cloud Atlas (1896), which was the first work of its kind.

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Atlas des mouvements supérieurs de I’atmosphère. Uppsala, 1877.
Quelques Recherches sur les centres d’action de l’atmosphère, Uppsala-Stockholm, 1898, vol. 29, no. 3, p. 36; 1900, vol. 32, no. 4, p. 22; 1909, vol. 45, no. 2, p. 11; 1909, vol. 45, no. 11, p. 22; 1914, vol. 51, no. 8, p. 16.

REFERENCE

Khrgian, A. Kh. Ocherki razvitiia meteorologii, 2nd ed. Leningrad, 1969.


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