Calculating the weather : meteorology in the 20th century / Frederik Nebeker.
Calculating the weather : meteorology in the 20th century / Frederik Nebeker.
Calculating the weather : meteorology in the 20th century / Frederik Nebeker.
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San Diego : Academic Press, c1995.
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T0389749
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English
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vii, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Meteorology in 1900. Ch. 2. An Empirical Tradition: Climatology. Ch. 3. A Theoretical Tradition: Physics of the Atmosphere. Ch. 4. A Practical Tradition: Weather Forecasting -- Pt. II. Meteorology in the First Half of the 20th Century. Ch. 5. Vilhelm Bjerknes's Program...
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San Diego : Academic Press, c1995.
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California
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c1995.
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During the course of this century, meteorology has become unified, physics-based, and highly computational. Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in the 20th Century explains this transformation by examining the various roles of computation throughout the history of meteorology, giving most attention to the period from World War I to the 1960s. The...
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Calculating the weather : meteorology in the 20th century / Frederik Nebeker.
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International geophysics series ; v. 60.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-241) and index.
Transferred from N551.5028/4.
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c1995.
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T0389749
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0125151756 (alk. paper)
9780125151757 (alk. paper)
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551.5028
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991002380809702626
