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