Complex sentence: A well respected man in his time, Cline was the first meteorologist to provide reliable forecasts of freezing weather, and was provided some of the first available flood warnings on the Colorado and Brazos rivers.
Split into simpler sentences: A well respected man in his time, Cline was the first meteorologist to provide reliable forecasts of freezing weather. He also provided some of the first available flood warnings on the Colorado and Brazos rivers.