Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes was a meteorologist.
12 Facts About Jacob Bjerknes
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Jacob Bjerknes is known for his key paper in which he pointed the dynamics of the polar front, mechanism for north-south heat transport and for which he was awarded a doctorate from the University of Oslo.
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Jacob Bjerknes was part of the team that made the first crossing of the Arctic in the airship Norge.
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Jacob Bjerknes helped gain an understanding of the weather phenomenon El Nino.
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Jacob Bjerknes's father was the Norwegian meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes, one of the pioneers of modern weather forecasting.
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Jacob Bjerknes was part of a group of meteorologists led by his father, Vilhelm Jacob Bjerknes, at the University of Leipzig.
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Jacob Bjerknes returned to Norway in 1917, where his father founded the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen in Bergen.
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In 1926, Jacob Bjerknes was a support meteorologist when Roald Amundsen made the first crossing of the Arctic in the airship Norge.
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Jacob Bjerknes founded the UCLA Department of Meteorology.
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In 1969, Jacob Bjerknes helped toward an understanding of El Nino Southern Oscillation, by suggesting that an anomalously warm spot in the eastern Pacific can weaken the east-west temperature difference, disrupting trade winds, which push warm water to the west.
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Jacob Bjerknes died on 7 July 1975 in Los Angeles, California.
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Jacob Bjerknes was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1932 and a member of both the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 1933.