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Anders Oscar Persson
Born(1944-05-20)May 20, 1944
Gothenburg, Sweden
DiedJanuary 23, 2021(2021-01-23) (aged 76)
Ärentuna, Uppsala County, Sweden
OccupationsMeteorologist, author, amateur historian

Anders Oscar Persson (20 May 1944 – 23 January 2021) was a Swedish meteorologist, amateur historian and author.

Education

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Persson completed his secondary education at Göteborgs högre samskola in 1964 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stockholm University in spring 1967, following two years of studies in mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Gothenburg and meteorology at Stockholm University.[1] He obtained an additional qualification in meteorology in 1971.

Career

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In spring 1968, Persson began working as an assistant meteorologist in the weather forecasting division "Vädertjänsten". He was promoted to forecast meteorologist in 1973 and served as a relief meteorologist at the airports in Gothenburg and Malmö in 1976, 1977 and 1989–1990. In 1972, he was among the founders of the Swedish meteorological journal Polarfront. From 1993 to 2013, he was periodically affiliated with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in England, holding a permanent position as a scientist from 1991 to 2001. Between 2008 and 2010, he worked at the Met Office in Exeter.

From 1990 to 1992, he was part of the meteorological editorial staff of the Swedish national encyclopaedia Nationalencyklopedin, and served as a subject expert in meteorology for the encyclopaedia AHA between 2004 and 2006. From 1993 to 2013, he was engaged by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as a lecturer in Toulouse, Darwin, Seoul, Frankfurt, Brasilia, Macau, Pretoria, Shanghai, Tripoli, Hong Kong and Curitiba. From 2003 to 2015, he was a guest lecturer in meteorology courses at the University of Bologna. In 2016–2017, he held a fellowship from the Swedish Institute as a visiting scientist and lecturer at the hydrometeorological universities in Kyiv, Odessa, Pskov and Saint Petersburg.

Research

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Persson's meteorological research focused primarily on forecast accuracy, the applicability of probabilistic methods, and the use of statistical methods to improve weather forecasts.

From 1991 to 2001, he participated in the development of the ensemble forecasting system at ECMWF.

From 2011 onwards, his research turned to the foundations of dynamic meteorology — in particular how the Earth's rotation influences atmospheric flow — leading to several results that were considered controversial but gained recognition in 2015 through publication in the theoretical journal Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society of the Royal Meteorological Society.

From 2014, he was a regular contributor to the French scientific website Bibnum, with articles based on the works of Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Albert Einstein, among others.

Persson's work was acknowledged by Boyd F. Edwards and John M. Edwards in their 2021 article in the American Journal of Physics, where they credited a two-year correspondence with Persson as having "helped to shape their understanding" of motion on the Earth's surface.[2]

Memberships and awards

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Persson won first prize in the Swedish Young Scientists competition and third prize in his category at the Science Fair in 1964.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, an honorary member of the Swedish Meteorological Society,[3] and a member of the Danish and American meteorological societies.

Selected bibliography

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Meteorology

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  • Gaspard Gustave Coriolis et ses deux théorèmes, La Météorologie, pp. 36–52, 1998
  • The Coriolis effect: Four centuries of conflict between common sense and mathematics, Hist. Meteorol. 2, 1–24 (2005)
  • Hadley's principle: understanding and misunderstanding the trade winds, Hist. Meteorol. 3, 17–42 (2006)
  • Mathematics versus common sense: the problem of how to communicate dynamic meteorology, Meteorological Applications, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 236–242. doi:10.1002/met.205
  • Early operational Numerical Weather Prediction outside the USA: an historical introduction. Part I: Internationalism and engineering NWP in Sweden, 1952–69, Meteorological Applications, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 135–159. doi:10.1017/S1350482705001593
  • Early operational Numerical Weather Prediction outside the USA: an historical introduction. Part II: Twenty countries around the world, Meteorological Applications, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2005, Pages 269–289. doi:10.1017/S1350482705001751
  • Early operational Numerical Weather Prediction outside the USA: an historical introduction. Part III: Endurance and mathematics – British NWP, 1948–1965, Meteorological Applications, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2005. doi:10.1017/S1350482705001933
  • With M. J. Rodwell et al., Characteristics of Occasional Poor Medium-Range Weather Forecasts for Europe, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, 1393–1405, September 2013
  • With J. D. Doyle et al., Mesoscale Modeling over Complex Terrain: Numerical and Predictability Perspectives, in Mountain Weather Research and Forecasting: Recent Progress and Current Challenges, ed. Chow et al., pp. 531–90, Springer Verlag, 2013
  • Is the Coriolis effect an 'optical illusion'?, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 141, Part A, Pages 1957–1967, July 2015. doi:10.1002/qj.2477
  • Experiences of Teaching the Coriolis Effect, Hydrometeorology and Education, No. 3, 2020, pp. 91–107

History

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References

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  1. ↑ MISU
  2. ↑ Boyd F. Edwards and John M. Edwards, "Forces and conservation laws for motion on our spheroidal Earth", American Journal of Physics 89, 830 (2021). doi:10.1119/10.0004801
  3. ↑ Svenska Meteorologiska Sällskapet
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