Dietrich Sonntag
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Dietrich Sonntag (1927-06-23/2018-01-01) was a scientist who published several notable papers in the field of hygrometry. He was a leading member of the German Meteorological Society.[1][2][3].
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History
- 1927-06-23: Sonntag born in Leipzig.[3]
- 1945-09: World War II ends with Sonntag being an 18-year-old naval cadet assigned to the German cruiser Nürnberg.[3]
- 1994: Sonntag publishes “Advancements in the field of hygrometry”.[1]
- 2016: Sonntag's wife of 62 years, Gisela, passed away.[3]
- 2018-01-01: Sonntag passed away at age 90 in Berlin.[3]
- 2018: Thomas Foken publishes an epitaph in Mitteilungen DMG (en: “Communications of the German Meteorological Society”).[3]
- 2021: Olaf Hellmuth linked the Thomas Foken epitaph in a paper for Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and Technology.[2]
Baltakatei history
- 2021-09-14: EVA-2020-02: I purchased and downloaded a copy of the English translation of Sonntag's 1994 paper “Advancements in the field of hygrometry“ (de: “Fortschritte in der Hygrometrie”).[1] I wrote a Python3 implementation of Sonntag's equations for calculating absolute humidity from temperature, pressure, and relative humidity.[4]
- 2023-06-17: I looked up Sonntag's epitaph written by Thomas Foken and published in a 2018 issue of Mitteilungen DMG (en: “Communications of the German Meteorological Society”) and referenced in a 2021 paper by Olaf Hellmuth about humid air density calculations.[2]
See also
External links
- bk4, reboil.com
- Epitaph in Mitteilungen DMG (German)[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sonntag, D. (1994). “Advancements in the field of hygrometry” (de: “Fortschritte in der Hygrometrie”). Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 51-66. Accessed 2021-09-14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hellmuth, O., Feistel, R. & Foken, T.. (2021). “Intercomparison of different state-of-the-art formulations of the mass density of humid air”. Bull. of Atmos. Sci.& Technol. 2, 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42865-021-00036-7. Accessed 2023-06-17. “This paper is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Dr. habil. Dietrich Sonntag (23 June 1927–1 January 2018), who contributed so much to all aspects of hygrometry with special predilection for the highly accurate determination of hygrometric properties and table values for the meteorological practice (see epitaph by Foken 2018).”
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Foken, Thomas. (2018). “Nachruf Prof. Dr. habil. Dietrich Sonntag” (en: “Obituary Professor Dr. Dietrich Sonntag”). Mitteilungen DMG. Issue 1. Accessed 2023-06-17. Archived from the original on 2020-07-12.
- ↑ Baltakatei. (2023-06-16). “Getting a absolute humidity from a temperature/relative humidity”. forums.raspberrypi.com. Accessed 2023-06-16.
