Yevgraf Yevgrafovich Fyodorov (; in

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– 19 July 1965 in

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), was a

climatologist Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "slope"; and , ''-logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. Climate concerns the atmospheric ...

. He was a son of Russian mathematician

Yevgraf Fyodorov Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov (, – 21 May 1919) was a Russian mathematician, crystallographer and mineralogist. Fedorov was born in the Russian city of Orenburg. His father was a topographical engineer. The family later moved to Saint Petersbur ...

. Graduation from the

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1910. Researcher in the Magneto-Meteorological Observatory, Pavlovsk 1911-1934, professor of geography with the

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1934-1951. Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1946. Fyodorov's main contribution consisted in detailed development in descriptive climatology, with a method to describe local climates in terms of daily weather observations.WMO Guide to Climatological Practices
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Bibliography

* Climate as an aggregate of weather. Journal of Meteorology, #7 (1925). * Distribution and type of precipitation in the plains of the European part of the USSR in the summer. Works of the USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Geography, #28 (1938). * with ''A. I. Baranov'': Climate and Weather of the European Part of the USSR. (1949).

Biography

Ya. I. Feldman: Yevgraf Yevgrafovich Fedorov. Izvest. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. Geogr., #1 (1956).

References

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