Putting faces to names: snapshots of two committee meetings, 95 years apart, emphasize continuous international cooperation in the atmospheric sciences

Kurzfassung

Spectacular advances have been made in the atmospheric sciences on a global level during a period of one hundred years or more, which is arguably most evident through “the quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction” (Bauer et al., 2015). A cornerstone of such scientific success is generally regarded to be steady and orchestrated international cooperation. The intergovernmental World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has since 1952 been serving as the global umbrella organization for the National Hydro-Meteorological Services, with its work divided into a number of technical commissions.