Ernest Hovmöller (1912–2008) was a Danish born meteorologist. He is best known for his Hovmöller diagram. Hovmöller joined

Danish Meteorological Institute The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI; ) is the official Danish meteorological institute, administrated by the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities. It makes weather forecasts and observations for Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Is ...

(DMI) in 1937 when he was 25. He was interested in upper atmosphere aerology and worked in 1936 for 4 months in Lindenberg outside

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, Germany. Hovmöller joined aerological section at

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (, SMHI) is a Swedish government agency and operates under the Ministry of Climate and Enterprise. SMHI has expertise within the areas of meteorology, hydrology and oceanography, and has exte ...

in November 1946 where he worked with, among others,

Carl-Gustaf Rossby Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby ( 28 December 1898 – 19 August 1957) was a Swedish-born American meteorologist who first explained the large-scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics. He identified and characterized both the jet ...

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