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Volume 1, Number 1, 2010K. Aplin and K. Arora and M. Ertsen and G. A. Good and G. P. Gregori and J. M. Herndon and T. Kikuchi and T. Kutsukake and T. V. Kuznetsova and S. Papamarinopoulos and R. J. Pellinen and P. Richet and K. Schlegel and W. Schröder and V. Schwach Introductory Editorial . . . . . . . . . 1--2 A. Nishida Early Japanese contributions to space weather research (1945--1960) . . . . . 1--12 A. Egeland and W. J. Burke Kristian Birkeland's pioneering investigations of geomagnetic disturbances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--24 J. M. Herndon Inseparability of science history and discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--41 K. L. Taylor Book Review: ``\booktitleA Natural History of Time'' . . . . . . . . . . . 43--44 W. Schröder The development of the aurora of 18 January 1770 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
F. Halberg and G. Cornélissen and K.-H. Bernhardt and M. Sampson and O. Schwartzkopff and D. Sonntag Egeson's (George's) transtridecadal weather cycling and sunspots . . . . . . 49--61 M. Mandea and M. Korte and A. Soloviev and A. Gvishiani Alexander von Humboldt's charts of the Earth's magnetic field: an assessment based on modern models . . . . . . . . . 63--76 W. Schröder and K.-H. Wiederkehr and K. Schlegel Georg von Neumayer and geomagnetic research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--87
P. Stauning Danish auroral science history . . . . . 1--28 C. Marx On the precision of Ptolemy's geographic coordinates in his \booktitleGeographike Hyphegesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--37 M. W. Ertsen ``A not completely satisfactory attempt'' --- peak discharges and rainfall-runoff relations for Javanese rivers between 1880 and 1940 . . . . . . 39--55 R. B. Cathcart Anthropic Rock: a brief history . . . . 57--74 R. G. Barry and J. Jania and K. Birkenmajer Review article: ``A. B. Dobrowolski --- the first cryospheric scientist --- and the subsequent development of cryospheric science'' . . . . . . . . . 75--79 G. K. Hartmann ``Between unmanned and manned space research'': Dr. Siegfried J. Bauer for his 80th birthday . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82 K. Schlegel and G. Gregori ``Historian of geomagnetism and aeronomy'': Obituary --- Dr. Wilfried Schröder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
T. S. Jòrgensen Comment on ``Danish auroral science history'' by P. Stauning in Hist. Geo Space Sci., \bf 2, 1--28, 2011 . . . . . 85--86 P. Stauning Reply to Comment on ``Danish auroral science history'' by P. Stauning in Hist. Geo Space Sci., \bf 2, 1--28, 2011 87--87 K. Schlegel and S. Silverman Johann Christian Heuson, a little-known auroral scholar of the early 18th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--95 A. Rivera Book Review: ``\booktitleIn the Shadow of Melting Glaciers. Climate change and Andean Society'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98 A. Egeland C. S. Deehr Roald Amundsen's contributions to our knowledge of the magnetic fields of the Earth and the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . 99--112 R. Pellinen and A. Brekke Introduction: ``The history of ionospheric radars'' . . . . . . . . . . 113--114 B. Hultqvist History of EISCAT --- Part 1: On the early history of EISCAT with special reference to the Swedish part of it . . 115--121 J. Oksman History of EISCAT --- Part 2: The early history of EISCAT in Finland . . . . . . 123--128
Y. I. Feldstein and L. I. Gromova and M. Förster and A. E. Levitin Spiral structures and regularities in magnetic field variations and auroras 1--31 N. Ptitsyna and A. Altamore Father Secchi and the first Italian magnetic observatory . . . . . . . . . . 33--45 O. Holt History of EISCAT --- Part 3: The early history of EISCAT in Norway . . . . . . 47--52 K. Moss and P. Stauning Sophus Peter Tromholt: an outstanding pioneer in auroral research . . . . . . 53--72 D. L. Carpenter and U. S. Inan Robert Helliwell, pioneer of whistler-mode research . . . . . . . . . 73--74 K. R. Aalto Edwin James' and John Hinton's revisions of Maclure's geologic map of the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--86 P. Dalin and N. Pertsev and V. Romejko Notes on historical aspects on the earliest known observations of noctilucent clouds . . . . . . . . . . . 87--97 C. Marx Rectification of the ancient geographic coordinates in Ptolemy's \booktitleGeographike Hyphegesis . . . . 99--112 P. Richet Book Review: From Hooke and Leibniz to Rouelle and Lavoisier, the eventful world of early geologists. A review of ``\booktitleStudies on Eighteenth-Century Geology, a Selection of Papers by Rhoda Rappaport'' . . . . . 113--115 L. Kristjánsson Iceland spar and its legacy in science 117--126 S. Silverman Book Review: ``\booktitleHarald Moltke --- Painter of the Aurora'' . . . . . . 127--129
A. Egeland W. J. Burke The ring current: a short biography . . 131--142 J. K. Nielsen and S. Helama Christian Theodor Vaupell, a Danish 19th century naturalist and a pioneering developer of the Quaternary geoscience 143--150 R. G. A. Fricke and K. Schlegel 100th anniversary of the discovery of cosmic radiation: the role of Günther and Tegetmeyer in the development of the necessary instrumentation . . . . . . . 151--158
M. A. McCready and C. J. Heinselman The Chatanika and Sondrestrom Radars --- a brief history . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 L. Ya. Emelyanov and T. G. Zhivolup History of the development of IS radars and founding of the Institute of Ionosphere in Ukraine . . . . . . . . . 7--17 J. D. Mathews A short history of geophysical radar at Arecibo Observatory . . . . . . . . . . 19--33 O. M. Raspopov and S. N. Sokolov and I. M. Demina and R. Pellinen and A. A. Petrova The first aeromagnetic survey in the Arctic: results of the Graf Zeppelin airship flight of 1931 . . . . . . . . . 35--46 F. Halberg and N. Düll-Pfaff and L. Gumarova and T. A. Zenchenko and O. Schwartzkopff and E. M. Freytag and J. Freytag and G. Cornelissen $ 27$-day cycles in human mortality: Traute and Bernhard Düll . . . . . . . . 47--59
Helge Kragh Svante Arrhenius, cosmical physicist and auroral theorist . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--69 K. Arora and D. Cole and J. Urrutia Fucugauchi and M. G. Johnson Introduction: ``History of geophysical institutes and observatories'' . . . . . 71--71 F. Medina Contribution of the ``Institut Scientifique Chérifien'' to the development of geoscientific research in Northwest Africa since its creation in 1914 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--82 K. L. Aplin and R. G. Harrison Lord Kelvin's atmospheric electricity measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--95 P. Bauer and A. Giraud and W. Kofman and M. Petit and P. Waldteufel How the Saint Santin incoherent scatter system paved the way for a French involvement in EISCAT . . . . . . . . . 97--103 V. Schwach Book Review: ``\booktitleThe Fluid Envelope of our Planet: How the Study of Ocean Currents Became a Science'' . . . 105--106 N. Nagarajan Book Review: \booktitleCarl Stòrmer, Auroral Pioneer . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
H. Steffen and W. Brunk and M. Leven and U. Wedeken From San Francisco to Tohoku --- 111 yr of continuous earthquake recording in Göttingen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 K.-H. Glassmeier and B. T. Tsurutani Carl Friedrich Gauss --- General Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism --- a revised translation of the German text . . . . . 11--62 E. Nielsen and W. Schmidt The STARE/SABRE story . . . . . . . . . 63--72 M. Carey Book Review: \booktitleLocales of Happiness: Colonial Irrigation in the Netherlands East Indies and its Remains, 1830--1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74 H. Nevanlinna On the early history of the Finnish Meteorological Institute . . . . . . . . 75--80 Y. I. Feldstein and V. G. Vorobjev and V. L. Zverev and M. Förster Investigations of the auroral luminosity distribution and the dynamics of discrete auroral forms in a historical retrospective . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--134 P. Sudiro The Earth expansion theory and its transition from scientific hypothesis to pseudoscientific belief . . . . . . . . 135--148
K. Schlegel and H. Lühr Willy Stoffregen --- An early pioneer of advanced ionospheric and auroral research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--154 G. Pischke The Ebstorf Map: tradition and contents of a medieval picture of the world . . . 155--161 F. Ozcep and T. Ozcep Notes on the history of geophysics in the Ottoman Empire . . . . . . . . . . . 163--174 P. Carlson and A. A. Watson Erich Regener and the ionisation maximum of the atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . 175--182
P. Wilkinson Book Review: \booktitleCosmogenic Radionuclides: Theory and Applications in the Terrestrial and Space Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 G. Schmidtke Extreme ultraviolet spectral irradiance measurements since 1946 . . . . . . . . 3--22 S.-I. Akasofu Paradigm transitions in solar--terrestrial physics from 1900: my personal view . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--43 Helge Kragh Expanding Earth and declining gravity: a chapter in the recent history of geophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55 K. R. Aalto Hermann Karsten, pioneer of geologic mapping in northwestern South America 57--63
H. C. Soffel History of the Munich--Maisach--Fürstenfeldbruck Geomagnetic Observatory . . . . . . . . 65--86 R. G. Barry The shaping of climate science: half a century in personal perspective . . . . 87--105 P. B. Gawali and M. G. Doiphode and R. N. Nimje Colaba--Alibag magnetic observatory and Nanabhoy Moos: the influence of one over the other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--131
J. Weiß History of the Juliusruh ionospheric observatory on Rügen . . . . . . . . . . 1--22 Antoni Jackowski and Kazimierz Krzemie\'n Maurycy Pius Rudzki and the birth of geophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--25 Christian Marx The western coast of Africa in Ptolemy's \booktitleGeography and the location of his prime meridian . . . . . . . . . . . 27--52 Alv Egeland William J. Burke Auroral research at the Tromsò Northern Lights Observatory: the Harang directorship, 1928--1946 . . . . . . . . 53--61 S. Nathan Book Review: \booktitleAugustus Koch --- Mapmaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64 Rolf W. Brednich Book review: \booktitleJames Hector. Explorer, Scientist, Leader . . . . . . 65--66
Gerhard Haerendel History of EISCAT --- Part 4: On the German contribution to the early years of EISCAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--72 Mioara Mandea and Jean-Louis Le Mouël After some 350 years --- zero declination again in Paris . . . . . . . 73--77 Bjòrn Ragnvald Pettersen A historical review of gravimetric observations in Norway . . . . . . . . . 79--89 Antoni Jackowski and Izabela Soljan and Elzbieta Bilska-Wodecka and Justyna Liro Geographical tourism research and education at the Jagiellonian University School of Tourism in Poland (1936--1939) 91--101 Alik Ismail-Zadeh Geoscience international: the role of scientific unions . . . . . . . . . . . 103--123 Matthew R. Edwards Indications from space geodesy, gravimetry and seismology for slow Earth expansion at present --- comment on ``The Earth expansion theory and its transition from scientific hypothesis to pseudoscientific belief'' by Sudiro (2014) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--133
Rudolf G. A. Fricke and Kristian Schlegel Julius Elster and Hans Geitel --- Dioscuri of physics and pioneer investigators in atmospheric electricity 1--7 David E. Cartwright and Philip L. Woodworth and Richard D. Ray Manuel Johnson's tide record at St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--19 Neil R. Sheeley, Jr. Origin of the Wang--Sheeley--Arge solar wind model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--28 Guido Meinhold Franz Kossmat --- Subdivision of the Variscan Mountains --- a translation of the German text with supplementary notes 29--51 José M. Vaquero Ball lightning: a Renaissance account from Zafra (Spain) . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Gintaras Valiuskevicius Steponas Kolupaila's contribution to hydrological science development . . . . 57--67 Luca Santoro A statistical approach to latitude measurements: Ptolemy's and Riccioli's geographical works as case studies . . . 69--77 Johannes Ihde and Andreas Reinhold Friedrich Robert Helmert, founder of modern geodesy, on the occasion of the centenary of his death . . . . . . . . . 79--95
John R. Smallwood The attraction of the pyramids: virtual realization of Hutton's suggestion to improve Maskelyne's 1774 Earth density estimate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 Dmitry A. Shcheglov The length of coastlines in Ptolemy's \booktitleGeography and in ancient periploi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--24 Karen L. Aplin Atmospheric electricity at Durham: the scientific contributions and legacy of J. A. (``Skip'') Chalmers (1904--1967) 25--35 Phil Wilkinson Preface: History of regional warning centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--37 David S. Chapman Book review: \booktitleThe Man behind Degree Celsius: A Pioneer in Investigating the Earth and its Changes 39--40 Han He and Huaning Wang and Zhanle Du and Xin Huang and Yan Yan and Xinghua Dai and Juan Guo and Jialong Wang A brief history of Regional Warning Center China (RWC-China) . . . . . . . . 41--47 Thomas Damboldt The Regional Warning Center Darmstadt (from the 1960s until 1993) . . . . . . 49--51 Phil Wilkinson and John A. Kennewell and David Cole The development of the Australian Space Forecast Centre (ASFC) . . . . . . . . . 53--63 Bruno Zolesi and Ljiljana R. Cander The role of COST Actions in unifying the European ionospheric community in the transition between the two millennia . . 65--77 Fernando Dom'\inguez-Castro An early record of ball lightning: Oliva (Spain), 1619 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--83 Philip L. Woodworth and Glen H. Rowe The tidal measurements of James Cook during the voyage of the Endeavour . . . 85--103 Bodo W. Reinisch and Kristian Schlegel Obituary: Karl Rawer (1913--2018) . . . 105--106
Rubén Galindo-Aires and Antonio Lara-Galera and Gonzalo Guillán-Llorente Contribution to the knowledge of early geotechnics during the twentieth century: Arthur Casagrande . . . . . . . 107--123 Pieter B. Kotzé Hermanus Magnetic Observatory: a historical perspective of geomagnetism in southern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 125--131 V\'ìctor M. S. Carrasco and Enric Aragon\`es and Jorge Ordaz and José M. Vaquero The Great Aurora of January 1770 observed in Spain . . . . . . . . . . . 133--139 Eivind V. Thrane The history of Andòya Rocket Range . . . 141--156
Karen L. Aplin Book review: \booktitleKew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science 1840--1910 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Antonio Lara-Galera and Rubén Galindo-Aires and Gonzalo Guillán-Llorente Contribution to the knowledge of early geotechnics during the twentieth century: Ralph Peck . . . . . . . . . . 3--15 Jo Ann Joselyn and Alik Ismail-Zadeh Preface to the special issue ``The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics: from different spheres to a common globe'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24 Alik Ismail-Zadeh and Jo Ann Joselyn IUGG: beginning, establishment, and early development (1919--1939) . . . . . 25--44 Jo Ann Joselyn and Alik Ismail-Zadeh IUGG evolves (1940--2000) . . . . . . . 45--72 Jo Ann Joselyn and Alik Ismail-Zadeh and Tom Beer and Harsh Gupta and Masaru Kono and Uri Shamir and Michael Sideris and Kathryn Whaler IUGG in the 21st century . . . . . . . . 73--95 Ian Allison and Charles Fierz and Regine Hock and Andrew Mackintosh and Georg Kaser and Samuel U. Nussbaumer IACS: past, present, and future of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--107 Dan Rosbjerg and John Rodda IAHS: a brief history of hydrology . . . 109--118 Michael C. MacCracken and Hans Volkert IAMAS: a century of international cooperation in atmospheric sciences . . 119--136 Denise Smythe-Wright and W. John Gould and Trevor J. McDougall and Stefania Sparnocchia and Philip L. Woodworth IAPSO: tales from the ocean frontier . . 137--150 Hermann Drewes and József Ádám The International Association of Geodesy: from an ideal sphere to an irregular body subjected to global change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--161 Mioara Mandea and Eduard Petrovský IAGA: a major role in understanding our magnetic planet . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--172 Johannes Schweitzer and Thorne Lay IASPEI: its origins and the promotion of global seismology . . . . . . . . . . . 173--180 Raymond A. F. Cas IAVCEI: from small beginnings to a vibrant international association . . . 181--191 Zbigniew Klos and Iwona Stanislawska and Beata Dziak-Jankowska Heliogeophysical prediction service in Poland: past, present and future . . . . 193--199 Alv Egeland and William J. Burke Auroral hydrogen emissions: a historic survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--213
Andrey V. Medvedev and Alexander P. Potekhin Irkutsk Incoherent Scatter Radar: history, present and future . . . . . . 215--224 Antonio Lara-Galera and Rubén Galindo-Aires and Gonzalo Guillán-Llorente and Vicente Alcaraz Carrillo de Albornoz Contribution to the knowledge of early geotechnics during the 20th century: Alec Westley Skempton . . . . . . . . . 225--234 Nenad Gajic The curious case of the Milankovitch calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--243 Ronald F. Woodman and Donald T. Farley and Ben B. Balsley and Marco A. Milla The early history of the Jicamarca Radio Observatory and the incoherent scatter technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--266 Karen L. Aplin Book review: \booktitleOxford Weather and Climate since 1767 by Stephen Burt and Tim Burt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268 Ruta Puziene The Struve Geodetic Arc: the development of the triangulation, technical possibilities, and the initiation of the project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--277
Fabio Raicich A 1782--1794 sea level record at Trieste (northern Adriatic) . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 Philip L. Woodworth Tide prediction machines at the Liverpool Tidal Institute . . . . . . . 15--29 Dmitry A. Shcheglov The configuration of the Pontus Euxinus in Ptolemy's Geography . . . . . . . . . 31--51 József Bór and Gabriella Sátori and Veronika Barta and Karolina Szabóné-André and Judit Szendr\Hoi and Viktor Wesztergom and Tamás Bozóki and Attila Buzás and Dávid Koronczay Measurements of atmospheric electricity in the Széchenyi István Geophysical Observatory, Hungary . . . . . . . . . . 53--70 Karl-Heinz Glassmeier Karl Friedrich Almstedt --- scientist, teacher, and co-founder of the German Geophysical Society . . . . . . . . . . 71--80
Karen L. Aplin Introduction to the special issue ``Atmospheric electrical observatories'' 137--138 Anna Carlsson-Hyslop How the Liverpool Tidal Institute was established: industry, navy and academia 139--156 Yulia S. Lyubovtseva and Alexei D. Gvishiani and Anatoly A. Soloviev and Olga O. Samokhina and Roman I. Krasnoperov Sixtieth anniversary of the International Geophysical Year (1957--2017) --- contribution of the Soviet Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--171 Ferhat Ozcep Physical earth and its sciences in Istanbul: a journey from pre-modern (Islamic) to modern times . . . . . . . 173--198 Axel D. Wittmann Carl Friedrich Gauss and the Gauss Society: a brief overview . . . . . . . 199--205 R. Giles Harrison Behind the curve: a comparison of historical sources for the Carnegie curve of the global atmospheric electric circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--213 Duncan C. Agnew Time and tide: pendulum clocks and gravity tides . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--224
Asgeir Brekke The legacy of the Haldde Observatory . . 1--9 Wolfgang A. Lenhardt The history of the Geophysical Service of Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--19 Zhihui Zhang and Rui Wang The development of geophysics in the early period of the People's Republic of China based on the Institute of Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1950-1966) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--41 Alexander G. Keul A brief history of ball lightning observations by scientists and trained professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--56 Aitor Anduaga The formation of ionospheric physics --- confluence of traditions and threads of continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--75
Tilmann Bösinger The Geophysical Observatory in Sodankylä, Finland --- past and present . . . . . . 115--130 Yasuharu Sano and Hiroshi Nagano Early history of sudden commencement investigation and some newly discovered historical facts . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--162 Ulrich Sperberg Eduard Heis, an early pioneer in meteor research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--170 Pavel Hánek and Pavel Hánek Sr. Tradition of geodetic instruments production in the Czech Republic . . . . 171--178 Pavel Hroncek and Bohuslava Gregorová and Dana Tometzová and Milos Jesenský Scientific journeys to one of the oldest copper cementation sites in Central Europe (Smolník, Slovakia) . . . . . . . 179--196 Pablo J. Torres Carbonell On the high scientific quality of early research on strain and deformation fabrics (1835--1908) . . . . . . . . . . 197--216 Carlos A. Góis-Marques and Miguel Menezes de Sequeira and José Madeira The bicentenary of Georg Hartung, a German pioneer geologist, explorer, and illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--223
Gudmund Wannberg History of EISCAT --- Part 5: Operation and development of the system during the first 2 decades . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21 M. Efe Ates Pioneers of the ice age models: a brief history from Agassiz to Milankovitch . . 23--37 Daniel Galvão Carnier Fragoso and Matheus Kuchenbecker and Antonio Jorge Campos Magalhães and Claiton Marlon Dos Santos Scherer and Guilherme Pederneiras Raja Gabaglia and André Strasser Cyclicity in Earth sciences, quo vadis? Essay on cycle concepts in geological thinking and their historical influence on stratigraphic practices . . . . . . . 39--69 Michael T. Rietveld and Peter Stubbe History of the Tromsò ionosphere heating facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--82 Lif Lund Jacobsen Intellectually gifted but inherently fragile --- society's view of female scientists as experienced by seismologist Inge Lehmann up to 1930 . . 83--92
David J. Lowe and Peter M. Abbott and Takehiko Suzuki and Britta J. L. Jensen Global tephra studies: role and importance of the international tephra research group ``Commission on Tephrochronology'' in its first 60 years 93--132 R. Giles Harrison and John C. Riddick Atmospheric electricity observations at Lerwick Geophysical Observatory . . . . 133--146 Ikuko Fujii and Shingo Nagamachi History of Kakioka Magnetic Observatory 147--170 W. John Gould HMS Challenger and SMS Gazelle --- their 19th century voyages compared . . . . . 171--204 Markus Antoni A review of different mascon approaches for regional gravity field modelling since 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--217
Marc de Vos and Panagiotis Kountouris and Lasse Rabenstein and John Shears and Mira Suhrhoff and Christian Katlein Understanding the drift of Shackleton's Endurance during its last days before it sank in November 1915, using meteorological reanalysis data . . . . . 1--13 Johannes Schweitzer Foundation of the Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft in its international context . . . . . . . . . 15--22 Hans-Joachim Linthe History of the Potsdam, Seddin and Niemegk geomagnetic observatories --- Part 1: Potsdam . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--31 Roland A. Madden A pioneering time of discoveries in large-scale tropical meteorology: 1960 through 1972 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41 Hans-Joachim Linthe History of the Potsdam, Seddin and Niemegk geomagnetic observatories --- Part 2: Seddin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--50 Pavel Hejda and Fridrich Valach and and Milos Revallo Historical geomagnetic observations from Prague Observatory (since 1839) and their contribution to geomagnetic research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--60 Nobuo Matuura and Ryoichi Fujii and and Satonori Nozawa History of EISCAT --- Part 6: the participation of Japan in the EISCAT Scientific Association . . . . . . . . . 61--69 R. Giles Harrison and Kristian Schlegel Atmospheric electricity observations by Reinhold Reiter around Garmisch-Partenkirchen . . . . . . . . . 71--75 Glen H. Rowe New Zealand's first gauge-based sea level measurements . . . . . . . . . . . 77--92
Peter Winkler The early meteorological network of the Societas Meteorologica Palatina (1781--1792): foundation, organization, and reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--120
Oguz Mulayim Mehmet Ozan Sungurlu, the legendary Turkish petroleum geologist . . . . . . 1--4 R. Giles Harrison and John C. Riddick Atmospheric electricity observations at Eskdalemuir Geophysical Observatory . . 5--16 Heikki Nevanlinna and Eija I. Tanskanen Early auroral photography and observations at the Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory in Finland, 1927--1929 . . . 17--25
Alv Egeland Conjugate aurora observations by the Gjòa and Discovery expeditions . . . . . . . 27--39