George Aubourne Clarke

George Auborne Clarke by Elsie H. Anderson

George Aubourne Clarke was a Scottish meteorologist, best known for his photographs of cloud types.

From 1903 to 1943 he was the metereological observer at the Cromwell Tower Observatory at the University of Aberdeen.^[1] While there he made photographs of clouds, which were published in a book that became the standard reference for metereologists and the military.^[2]

He was awarded the first Hood medal from the Royal Photographic Society in 1933^[3] for his work as a photographer.

Publications

• Clouds; a Descriptive Illustrated Guide-book to the Observation and Classification of Clouds, with a preface by Sir Napier Shaw, Constable & Company, Ltd. (1920)

References

1. History of the Cromwell Tower Observatory , accessed 4 March 2011
2. Fluffy thinking , The Financial Times 3 February 2007, retrieved 4 March 2011
3. Hood Medal , accessed 4 March 2011