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Tor Bergeron

A Biography

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Weather and Weather Maps

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In 1908 a 17-year-old schoolboy was told by his teacher to read the barometer every morning during a whole month. The boy was a sixth former at the boarding school of Lundsberg, situated near the town of Filipstad in central Sweden.

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  1. Meteorological Institute, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    G. H. Liljequist

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  1. Meteorologiska Institutionen, Box 516, S-75120, Uppsala, Sweden

    Gösta H. Liljequist

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Liljequist, G.H. (1981). Tor Bergeron. In: Liljequist, G.H. (eds) Weather and Weather Maps. Contributions to Current Research in Geophysics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5148-0_1

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