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Jørgen Holmboe (November 8, 1902 – October 29, 1979) was a Norwegian-American meteorologist.


Life and career

Jørgen Holmboe was born near Hammerfest, Norway, on an island a short distance from the northernmost point in Norway. He was the son of priest Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe, Jr. and his wife Thea Louise Schetelig. He had several brothers and sisters. His great-grandfather Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe was a priest and national politician.Norwegian He received his early education from his father, who was a minister, attended secondary school in
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, and took his university entrance examinations in Bodø. He entered the
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in 1922. In 1925, he was appointed research assistant to Professor Vilhelm Bjerknes, who had moved from
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where as founding director of the Geophysical Institute he had led development of the Bergen School of Meteorology. In 1930, he passed his Candidate Real examinations and took a position as meteorologist in the Norwegian Weather Service in Tromsø. In 1932, he was transferred to Bergen, and, from 1933 to 1935, he served as meteorologist with the Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition. In 1936, he was invited to the
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, where he served as assistant professor. In 1940, he was asked to join in establishing a meteorology program at
University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...
. The program was initially part of the physics department; it became a separate department in 1946. Holmboe was chairman for the first year after the Department of Meteorology was established and served as chairman again for the period from 1949 through 1958. In 1944, Holmboe became a naturalized American citizen. Holmboe was elected fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union and foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.''Jorgen Holmboe, Meteorology: Los Angeles'' (by Morris Neiburger, James G. Edinger, and Norton G. Wurtele. The Regents of The University of California

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Selected works

*''On the Theory of Cyclones'' (paper jointly with J. Bjerknes. 1944) *''Dynamic Meteorology'' (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1952) *''On the instability of stratified shear flow'' (Universitetsforlaget. 1966) *''Instability of baroclinic three-layer models of the atmosphere'' (Universitetsforlaget. 1968)


References


Sources

* ''A Biography of Jorgen Holmboe, 1902-1979'' (by Jason Zarat


External links


Jorgen Holmboe Papers
MSS-S 101
Special Collections & Archives
UC San Diego Library. Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty Norwegian meteorologists People from Hammerfest University of California, Los Angeles faculty Norwegian emigrants to the United States University of Oslo alumni 1902 births 1979 deaths Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Fellows of the American Geophysical Union Fellows of the American Meteorological Society {{Norway-scientist-stub