Air apparent : how meteorologists learned to map, predict, and dramatize weather / Mark Monmonier.

Author
Monmonier, Mark S. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, ©1999.
Description
xiv, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

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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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 0226534227 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780226534220 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0226534235
    • 9780226534237
    LCCN
    98025797
    OCLC
    39210171
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