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Jacob Bjerknes
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Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes was a Swedish-born Norwegian-American meteorologist, the son of the Norwegian meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes, one of the pioneers of modern weather forecasting. He is known for a key paper describing the dynamics of the polar front and the mechanism of north-south heat transport, work for which he earned a doctorate from the University of Oslo in 1924, and he helped develop the Norwegian cyclone model within the Bergen School of Meteorology. He also helped establish scientific understanding of the El Nino weather phenomenon.
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