Author: Jakob BjerknesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Practical Examples of Polar-front Analysis Over the British Isles in 1925-6
Author: Jakob BjerknesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Inventing Atmospheric Science
Author: James Rodger FlemingPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262536315
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
How scientists used transformative new technologies to understand the complexities of weather and the atmosphere, told through the intertwined careers of three key figures. “The goal of meteorology is to portray everything atmospheric, everywhere, always,” declared John Bellamy and Harry Wexler in 1960, soon after the successful launch of TIROS 1, the first weather satellite. Throughout the twentieth century, meteorological researchers have had global ambitions, incorporating technological advances into their scientific study as they worked to link theory with practice. Wireless telegraphy, radio, aviation, nuclear tracers, rockets, digital computers, and Earth-orbiting satellites opened up entirely new research horizons for meteorologists. In this book, James Fleming charts the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of atmospheric science through the lives and careers of three key figures: Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862–1951), Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898–1957), and Harry Wexler (1911–1962). In the early twentieth century, Bjerknes worked to put meteorology on solid observational and theoretical foundations. His younger colleague, the innovative and influential Rossby, built the first graduate program in meteorology (at MIT), trained aviation cadets during World War II, and was a pioneer in numerical weather prediction and atmospheric chemistry. Wexler, one of Rossby's best students, became head of research at the U.S. Weather Bureau, where he developed new technologies from radar and rockets to computers and satellites, conducted research on the Antarctic ice sheet, and established carbon dioxide measurements at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. He was also the first meteorologist to fly into a hurricane—an experience he chose never to repeat. Fleming maps both the ambitions of an evolving field and the constraints that checked them—war, bureaucracy, economic downturns, and, most important, the ultimate realization (prompted by the formulation of chaos theory in the 1960s by Edward Lorenz) that perfectly accurate measurements and forecasts would never be possible.
The Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones
Author: Melyvn ShapiroPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1935704095
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This book presents the expanded versions of invited papers presented at the International Symposium on the Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones, held in Bergen, Norway, 27 June–1 July 1994. It is of particular interest to historians of meteorology, researchers and forecasters. The material can be used for advanced undergraduate and undergraduate meteorology courses, and it represents a useful source of references to extratropical cyclones. The book provides the historical background of extratropical cyclone research and forecasting from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It also presents extratropical cyclone theory, observations, analysis, diagnosis and prediction.
Bibliography of Meteorological Literature
Author: Bibliography of Meteorological Literature, Prepared by the Royal Meteorological Society with the Collaboration of the Meteorological Office
Author: Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Geophysical Memoirs
Author: Meteorological Results of the British Arctic Air-route Expedition 1930-1
Author: Stewart Turnbull Alexander MirrleesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Bibliography:p.35.
Biographical Memoirs
Author: National Academy of SciencesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309052394
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Biographic Memoirs: Volume 68 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.
Consolidated List of Government Publications
Author: Great Britain. His Majesty's Stationery OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1562
Book Description
Observations of Atmospheric Electricity at Kew Observatory. A Survey of Results Obtained from 1843 to 1931
Author: Frederick John ScrasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description