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