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<th style="font-style:italic;">Hubert Lamb
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<td><span style="font-weight:bold;">„Künstler: University of East Anglia“</span>
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<p><b>Hubert Horace Lamb</b> (* <a href="22._September" title="22. September">22. September</a> <a href="1913" title="1913">1913</a> in <a href="Bedford" title="Bedford">Bedford</a>; † <a href="28._Juni" title="28. Juni">28. Juni</a> <a href="1997" title="1997">1997</a> in <a href="Holt_(Norfolk)" title="Holt (Norfolk)">Holt</a>, <a href="Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a>) war ein <a href="England" title="England">englischer</a> <a href="Klimatologie" title="Klimatologie">Klimatologe</a>. Er gründete die <i>Climate Research Unit</i> der <a href="University_of_East_Anglia" title="University of East Anglia">University of East Anglia</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wirken">Wirken</h2></div>
<p>Lamb gilt in der <a href="Historische_Klimatologie" title="Historische Klimatologie">Historischen Klimatologie</a> als einer der Pioniere in der Arbeit mit historischen <a href="Zeitzeugnis" class="mw-redirect" title="Zeitzeugnis">Zeitzeugnissen</a> zur Rekonstruktion der <a href="Klimageschichte" title="Klimageschichte">Klimageschichte</a> der letzten Jahrhunderte und zur Erforschung der Einflüsse vergangener <a href="Klima%C3%A4nderung" class="mw-redirect" title="Klimaänderung">Klimaänderungen</a> auf die Gesellschaft. Lamb prägte den Begriff der <a href="Mittelalterliche_Warmzeit" class="mw-redirect" title="Mittelalterliche Warmzeit">mittelalterlichen Warmzeit</a>. Besonders hervorgehoben wird sein Einsatz von Klimaindizes und seine Arbeit zum Zusammenhang zwischen Vulkanausbrüchen und dadurch ausgelösten kurzfristigen Klimaschwankungen, er führte 1972 zu deren Charakterisierung den heute noch verwendeten <i>Dust Veil Index</i> ein.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Lamb war der Enkel des Mathematikers <a href="Horace_Lamb" title="Horace Lamb">Horace Lamb</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-davies_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-davies-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sein Sohn Norman Lamb ist Abgeordneter des <a href="Britisches_Parlament" class="mw-redirect" title="Britisches Parlament">englischen Parlaments</a> für <a href="North_Norfolk" title="North Norfolk">North Norfolk</a>.
</p><p>Mit <a href="Lewis_Fry_Richardson" title="Lewis Fry Richardson">Lewis Fry Richardson</a> verband ihn schon früh eine Freundschaft. Dessen <a href="Qu%C3%A4kertum" title="Quäkertum">Quäkerphilosophie</a> beeinflusste Lamb nachhaltig.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Werk">Werk</h2></div>
<ul><li>1977: <i>Climate: Present Past and Future.</i> ISBN 0-416-11530-6.</li>
<li>1982: <i>Climate, History and the Modern World.</i> ISBN 0-415-12734-3.
<ul><li>deutsch: <i>Klima und Kulturgeschichte. Der Einfluß des Wetters auf den Gang der Geschichte</i>, rororo, 1989, ISBN 978-3-499-55478-0.</li></ul></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Symons Gold Medal</i> der <a href="Royal_Meteorological_Society" title="Royal Meteorological Society">Royal Meteorological Society</a>, UK<sup id="cite_ref-davies_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-davies-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Murchison Award</i> der <a href="Royal_Geographical_Society" title="Royal Geographical Society">Royal Geographical Society</a>, UK<sup id="cite_ref-davies_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-davies-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Vega Medal</i> der <a href="Svenska_S%C3%A4llskapet_f%C3%B6r_Antropologi_och_Geografi" class="mw-redirect" title="Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi">Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi</a></li>
<li>1997: Ehrenmitglied der <i>European Geophysical Society</i> (EGS)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uea.ac.uk/is/archives">Archivsammlung über H.H. Lamb.</a> University of East Anglia.</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Franz_Mauelshagen" title="Franz Mauelshagen">Franz Mauelshagen</a>: <cite style="font-style:italic">Klimageschichte der Neuzeit</cite>. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-21024-4, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>1,16,26,63</span>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Hubert+Lamb&rft.au=Franz+Mauelshagen&rft.btitle=Klimageschichte+der+Neuzeit&rft.date=2010&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=9783534210244&rft.pages=1%2C16%2C26%2C63&rft.place=Darmstadt&rft.pub=Wissenschaftliche+Buchgesellschaft" style="display:none"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-davies-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-davies_2-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-davies_2-1">b</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-davies_2-2">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Trevor Davies: <i>Lamb, Hubert Horace (1913–1997), climatologist</i>. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Hrsg.): <i><a href="Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>, from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/66263" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66263">doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66263</a> <small>(Lizenz erforderlich)</small>, Stand: 2004.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-h-h-lamb-1249739.html"><i>Obituary: Professor H. H. Lamb.</i></a> 8. Juli 1997,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 19. Mai 2025</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AHubert+Lamb&rft.title=Obituary%3A+Professor+H.+H.+Lamb&rft.description=Obituary%3A+Professor+H.+H.+Lamb&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fpeople%2Fobituary-professor-h-h-lamb-1249739.html&rft.date=1997-07-08&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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</style><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060718050737/http://www.copernicus.org/EGS/egs/medalists/lamb97.htm">Lamb 1997.</a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 18. Juli 2006 im <i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></i>) copernicus.org</span>
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