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Timeline of meteorology

25 - Pomponius Mela formalizes the climatic zone system
1620 - Francis Bacon analyzes the scientific method in his Great Instauration of Learning
1686 - Edmund Halley presents a systematic study of the trade winds and monsoons and identifies solar heating as the cause of atmospheric motions
1686 - Edmund Halley establishes the relationship between barometric pressure and height above sea level
1716 - Edmund Halley suggests that aurorae are caused by "magnetic effluvia" moving along the Earth's magnetic field lines
1869 - Joseph Lockyer[?] starts the scientific journal Nature
1920 - Milutin Milankovich[?] proposes that long term climatic cycles may be due to changes in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and changes in the Earth's obliquity
1935 - Watson-Watt and his assistant Arnold Wilkins published a report in February 1935, titled The Detection of Aircraft by Radio Methods.
1941 - Pulsed radar network is implemented in England during WWII.
1971 - Ted Fujita[?] inroduces the Fujita scale for rating tornadoes
1980 - Luis Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel propose that a giant comet or asteroid may have struck the Earth approximately 65 million years ago thereby causing massive extinctions and enriching the iridium in the K-T layer
1988 - WSR-88D type weather radar implemented in the United States. Weather surveillance radar that uses several modes to detect severe weather conditions.

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