The colonial stratosphere. Germany, the European state system and the geopolitics of climate science, 1871-1945
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Research has demonstrated that Germany was able to play a leading role in the study of the high atmosphere between 1896 and 1933 because of the decentralised organisation of German meteorology. In particular, competition among German states played an important role in this development, even more so than competition between Germany and other European states. This contributed to a new European ‘physics of the free atmosphere’. Besides the decentralised organisation of meteorology, the growing role of meteorology at many German universities as well as the growing market for weather consumers provided an ideal breeding ground.
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