International Meteorological Organization

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Although there had been significant developments in meteorology in the 18th century, Matthew Fontaine Maury, of the US Navy, was instrumental in convening the first true International Meteorological Organization held in Brussels, Belgium on August 23, 1853.

Maury's initiative was followed by an agreement at an International Meteorological Conference in Vienna, Austria, September 1873 that an International Meteorological Organization (IMO) should be formed. The members of that Organization were the directors of meteorological services.

Then the 1873 International Meteorological Organization was succeeded by the World Meteorological Organization in 1950.

[edit] External links

• http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0945.html -- Memories of the Bureau Of Meteorology: Chapter 2: International Meteorology