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  • To the publications given below should be added the works given in our list of publications by Tor Bergeron (L.P.).

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I met Tor Bergeron for the first time in 1939 at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) in Stockholm. As a junior meteorologist in the weather service under him I had rich opportunities to get to know him well, also later as a student of meteorology, also under him, and as co-author of a duplicated text-book of meteorology.

In 1949–58 I was either away from Sweden or worked at Stockholm University, while Bergeron was a professor at Uppsala. We met only sporadically during that time.

In 1958 I too became a professor of the Meteorological Institute at Uppsala. After that we met almost every day, especially so in the 1970's. We talked a good deal on bygone days. In 1973 we did this more systematically and used a tape-recorder in order to preserve what he had to say on meteorological history and on events in his own life.

Much of the present biography is built upon my own knowledge of Tor Bergeron and upon our discussions and my interviews with him, and also upon interviews with Mrs Vera Bergeron. These data have been checked with the help of the available literature. Bergeron's visits to Russia and his work there are described in detail in a certificate which he received from the Russian authorities on his departure.

At the end of this biography is added a Curriculum Vitae, which was written by Tor Bergeron in 1966, and also a List of the Publications by Tor Bergeron, compiled by the author of this biography. The List of Publications is referred to under the abbreviation L.P.

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Liljequist, G.H. Tor Bergeron. PAGEOPH 119, 409–442 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00878151

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