A few people worked to lift meteorology and climatology above the traditional statistical approach. Helmut Landsberg’s 1941 textbook Physical Climatology and a 1944 Climatology textbook written by two other meteorologists demonstrated how familiar physical principles underlay the general features of global climate, and provided a rallying-point for those who wanted to make the field truly scientific.
Leading the movement was a group at the University of Chicago, where in 1942 Carl-Gustav Rossby had created a department of meteorology.
The new thinking was displayed in full at a 1965 symposium held in Boulder ... Read even more
