# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wladimir-koppen
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:01:33.956Z

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description: "He gave every place on Earth a letter code. Köppen's climate classification—the Aw, Cfa, BSk shorthand still printed in atlases—turned weather into a global taxonomy, a grid you could compare across continents."
tagline: "German meteorologist (1846–1940)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1846 in Russia, Wladimir Köppen studied in St. Petersburg before relocating to Germany and Austria, where he spent most of his working life. In 1884 he proposed a system for classifying the world's climates—a framework that, with adjustments, remains the standard more than a century later. He contributed across geographies: meteorology, botany, the structure of the atmosphere. He even coined the term "aerology" for the study of the upper air. He died in 1940, having organized the planet's weather into a language still spoken.