Personal Recollections about the Bergen School

Abstract

In 1979 I succeeded in convincing Erik Palmén (1898–1985) that he should give an informal lecture about his participation in the activities of the “Bergen school” and “Chicago school” of meteorology. The lecture was organized in our department on February 21, 1979, and recorded. This report contains Palmén’s personal recollections about the Bergen school. The second part of the lecture dealing with the Chicago school is not included here. The substance of this latter part is well reflected in the interview, published in 1981 by H. Taba (WMO Bulletin Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 92–100). Some additional comments by Erik Palmén on the Bergen school and the Chicago school have appeared in his article ‘In my opinion...” from year 1985 (Geophysica 21, 5–18), which also contains a list of Palmén’s publications.