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Air apparent : how meteorologists learned to map, predict, and dramatize weather / Mark Monmonier.
Author
Monmonier, Mark S.
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English
Published/Created
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, ©1999.
Description
xiv, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
QC878 .M59 1999
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Meteorology
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Weather forecasting
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Technique
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Graphs
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circular graphs
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Summary note
Traces the development of the weather map and its ability to make the atmosphere visible and predictable, and examines the interaction and relationship between technology and weather forecasting.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Seeing and forecasting
Seeing and understanding
Weather by wire
Looking up
Looking ahead
Downwind dangers
Looking down
Spreading the news
Weather channels and web sites
Hindsight as insight
Managed myopia.
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ISBN
0226534227 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780226534220 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0226534235
9780226534237
LCCN
98025797
OCLC
39210171
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