[PDF.65yf] Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

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 | #2258075 in Books |  2012-01-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.50 x6.00l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Organizing the first operational numerical weather forecasts|By Daniel Lufkin|Full disclosure: I'm a PhD meteorologist of an early vintage. Almost all of the people in this book were my teachers or colleagues at one time or another. This book is a careful, elegantly crafted history of a generation that saw weather forecasting transformed from an art to a science. The transforma| ||Between 1945 and 1965, digital computers revolutionized weather forecasting, transforming an intuitive art into the first computational science. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Weather by the Numbers delivers the definitive account of this exceedin

For much of the first half of the twentieth century, meteorology was more art than science, dependent on an individual forecaster's lifetime of local experience. In Weather by the Numbers, Kristine Harper tells the story of the transformation of meteorology from a "guessing science" into a sophisticated scientific discipline based on physics and mathematics. What made this possible was the development of the electronic digital computer; earlier attempts at num...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)   |  Kristine C. Harper. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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