Impacts of the Brussels Maritime Conference
of 1853 on European Meteorological Services
Dr. Gaston R. Demarée
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Department of Meteorological Research and Development
An Historical Perspective of Operational Marine Meteorology and Oceanography
A Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Brussels Maritime Conference of 1853 in association with CLIMAR-II
Brussels, November 17-18, 2003
Contents
- Lt. Mathew Fontaine Maury & Adolphe Quetelet
- The role of the Royal Academy of Belgium
- Buys Ballot vs. Lt. Jansen in The Netherlands
- Project of an international Conference in 1861
- The report of Messrs. Stas and Quetelet to the Minister
- Lt. Victor Lahure, the second Belgian representative at the Conference
- The Belgian maritime meteorological archives ?
- Conclusions
An Historical Perspective of Operational Marine Meteorology and OceanographyA Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Brussels
Maritime Conference of 1853 in association with CLIMAR-IIBrussels, November 17-18, 2003
Acknowledgements
Mr. Wouter Jansen, Librarian at the KNMI, De Bilt
Mrs. Liliane Wellens-De Donder, Science Historian, Brussels
Dr. Jean-Luc De Paepe, Secretary of the Royal Academy
Mr. François Brouyaux, RMIB
An Historical Perspective of Operational Marine Meteorology and Oceanography
A Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Brussels Maritime Conference of 1853 in association with CLIMAR-II
Brussels, November 17-18, 2003
Mr. Jef Van Langenhove, RMIB
