Colonizing the Free Atmosphere: Wladimir Köppen’s ‘Aerology’, the German Maritime Observatory, and the Emergence of a Trans-Imperial Network of Weather Balloons and Kites, 1873-1906

R.B. Wille

Colonizing the Free Atmosphere: Wladimir Köppen’s ‘Aerology’, the German Maritime Observatory, and the Emergence of a Trans-Imperial Network of Weather Balloons and Kites, 1873-1906

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This article suggests that the meteorological science of ‘aerology’, the global study of the upper air with the help of balloons and kites, emerged most prominently in Imperial Germany in the first decade of the twentieth century as a consequence of trans-imperial networks and field work.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	95-123
Number of pages	29
Journal	History of Meteorology
Volume	8
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Colonizing the Free Atmosphere: Wladimir Köppen’s ‘Aerology’, the German Maritime Observatory, and the Emergence of a Trans-Imperial Network of Weather Balloons and Kites, 1873-1906

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