Abstract Mike Lockwood and Mat Owens discuss how eclipse observations are aiding the development of a climatology near-Earth space

This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth-century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO’s World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to...

Diagnostic meteorology is intertwined with the role of humans in forecasting, as discussed in D86a. Truly, weather forecasting is part of the science of meteorology, but recent history has created the illusion of a dichotomy between them. This paper attempts to illustrate how we envision diagnostic meteorology should proceed. In the process, we shall provide a basis for understanding why the ga...