Bryson, Reid A (Allen) (1920- )

US climatologist. He founded the meteorology department of the University of Wisconsin in 1948 and its Center for Climate Research in 1963, where he became the senior scientist. He wrote five books, including Climates of Hunger in 1977, with J E Ross.

He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was a major in the Air Weather Service 1942-46. He helped found and chaired the University of Wisconsin's Interdisciplinary Committee on the Future of Man. He wrote more than 200 papers, some of which combine original poetry with scientific data.