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K. 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
Huixin Liu Book review: \booktitleScientific
Debates in Space Science, by Warren
David Cummings and Louis J. Lanzerotti 41--42
Louis J. Lanzerotti Book review: \booktitleMy Life in Space
Exploration, by G. Haerendel . . . . . . 43--44
Hans-Joachim Linthe History of the Potsdam, Seddin and
Niemegk geomagnetic observatories ---
Part 3: Niemegk . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--69
Kristian Schlegel Lightning and thunder explanations in
encyclopedias --- from ancient Greece to
Wikipedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--80
Jose Manuel Tordesillas and
Francisco Javier Pavón-Carrasco and
Alberto Nuñez and
Ana Belén Anquela Historical evolution of the geomagnetic
declination at the Royal Observatory of
Madrid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94
Gonzalo Guillán-Llorente and
Belén Muñoz-Medina and
Antonio Lara-Galera and
Rubén Galindo-Aires Contribution to the knowledge of early
geotechnics during the 20th century:
Laurits Bjerrum . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12