Gösta Hjalmar Liljequist (1914–1995) was a
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.
In Sweden, radio broadcast
weather forecast
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s begun in 1926, and, starting in 1941, Liljequist was one of the recurrent meteorologists appearing in Swedish radio for many years. Following his debut, his peculiar dialect caused mass protests which, together with an attack published by the humorist
Kar de Mumma in the paper
Svenska Dagbladet, caused broadcast forecasts to be taken over by Swedish public service radio during the war.
After the war, Liljequist took part in the
Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE) (1949-1952). During the expedition he became the first to observe a rare type of
halo
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, an
optical phenomenon
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subsequently named
Liljequist parhelia after him.
During his life Liljequist wrote several books related to his field, besides textbooks on climatology and meteorology also overviews of Swedish polar history and research.
Bibliography
* ''Arktisk utpost: Berättelsen om den svensk-finsk-schweiziska expeditionen till Nordostlandet 1957-1958'', 1960
* ''Antarctica'', 1960 (together with Emil Schulthess)
* ''Meteorologi'', 1962
* ''Klimatologi'', 1970
* ''Jordens klimat'', 1975
* ''Moln - deras uppkomst och formationer'', 1979
* ''Sweden and Antarctica'', 1985
* ''High Latitudes - A History of Swedish Polar Travels and Research 1758-1980'', 1993
References
1914 births
1995 deaths
Swedish meteorologists
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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