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Carl-Gustaf Rossby

Carl-Gustaf Rossby
Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish-American meteorologist and academic (d. 1957)

Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby was a Swedish-born American meteorologist who first explained the large-scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics. He identified and characterized both the jet stream and the long waves in the westerlies that were later named Rossby waves.

28 December 1898

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