Historical Essays on Meteorology, 1919–1995 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Essays on Meteorology, 1919–1995 write by James Fleming. This book was released on 2016-06-30. Historical Essays on Meteorology, 1919–1995 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the occasion of its 75th anniversary, the American Meteorological Society engaged a number of eminent pioneers and leading practitioners to write about the fields they helped develop. They were joined by several professional historians of science and technology. The resulting essays constitute a substantial sampling of what has been learned since 1919 in the atmospheric sciences and services—in research, in education, and in the private sector. This volume will be of interest to weather professionals and enthusiasts, historians of science, and to students of science and history. It will help us calibrate where we are, where we have been, and where we might be going as a discipline. Hopefully it will inspire others to value the past and to dig into it more deeply. Such attention to history is a necessary step in the maturation of a scientific discipline.
Historical Essays on Meteorology
Historical Essays on Meteorology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Essays on Meteorology write by James Rodger Fleming. This book was released on 1996. Historical Essays on Meteorology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Second Edition
Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Second Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Second Edition write by S. George Philander. This book was released on 2012-07-10. Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Second Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Second Edition of an academic yet non-technical resource examines the effects, history and ongoing research in the important field of global warming and climate change.
Inventing Atmospheric Science
Inventing Atmospheric Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing Atmospheric Science write by James Rodger Fleming. This book was released on 2016-02-05. Inventing Atmospheric Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Radar Meteorology
Radar Meteorology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Radar Meteorology write by Frédéric Fabry. This book was released on 2018-03-01. Radar Meteorology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This practical textbook introduces the fundamental physics behind radar measurements, to guide students and practitioners in the proper interpretation of radar reflectivity, Doppler velocity and dual-polarization imagery. Operational applications are explored, such as how radar imagery can be used to analyze and forecast convective and widespread weather systems. The book concludes with an overview of current research topics, including the study of clouds and precipitation using radars, signal processing, and data assimilation. Numerous full-color illustrations are included, as well as problem sets, case studies, and a variety of supplementary electronic material including animated time sequences of images to help convey complex concepts. This book is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in radar meteorology and other related courses, such as precipitation microphysics and dynamics. It will also make a useful reference for researchers, professional meteorologists and hydrologists.
