Later and more successful work by Hubert Lamb of the Climatic Research Unit was based on air circulation patterns.
[3] Similar work was carried out by Flohn and Hess[4] in central Europe based on analysis of air flows from 1881 to 1947.
[5][6] A 1955 study by Liverpool Observatory and Tidal Institute analysed maximum daily temperatures at a single location from 1900 to 1953.
[7] In the 1950s, E.G. Bowen suggested that some rainfall calendaricities might be explicable in terms of meteoric particles from cometary orbits acting as ice nuclei in terrestrial clouds;[8][9][10] his theory received support from a number of sources.
[11] However, such work has now fallen out of favour due to modern dynamic modelling techniques, although articles are still being written reflecting an interest in the topic.