Wladimir koppen biography channel

(b. St. Petersburg, Russia, 25 September 1846, d. Graz, Austria, 22 June 1940)

climatology, meteorology, paleoclimatology.

Köppen was a principal founder of modern meteorology and climatology.

Wladimir koppen biography channel

The word founder is used here in both its conceptual and organizational sense: Köppen produced a useful and durable scheme of descriptive climatology; a modified version of the system bearing his name remains in use more than a century after he proposed it.

He was an early proponent of synoptic meteorology, and an active worker in developing the international network of observing stations that made this approach to meteorology possible. He was also the founding editor of the Meteorologische Zeitschrift and, during the half century of his contributions, maintained its position as the leading meteorology periodical in the world.

In 1924 he produced a major survey of the climates of the Earth’s past, and he is rightly considered one of the founders of modern p