Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology: 0 - Rilegato

Harper, Kristine C., Ph.D.

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ISBN 10: 0262083787 ISBN 13: 9780262083782

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2008

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For much of the first half of the twentieth century, meteorology was more art thanscience, dependent on an individual forecaster's lifetime of local experience. In Weatherby the Numbers, Kristine Harper tells the story of the transformation of meteorology froma "guessing science" into a sophisticated scientific discipline based on physics andmathematics. What made this possible was the development of the electronic digital computer; earlierattempts at numerical weather prediction had foundered on the human inability to solve nonlinearequations quickly enough for timely forecasting. After World War II, the combination of an expandedobservation network developed for military purposes, newly trained meteorologists, savvy about mathand physics, and the nascent digital computer created a new way of approaching atmospheric theoryand weather forecasting. This transformation of a discipline, Harper writes, was the most importantintellectual achievement of twentieth-century meteorology, and paved the way for the growth ofcomputer-assisted modeling in all the sciences.

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L'autore:

Kristine C. Harper is Kristine C. Harper is Associate Professor of History at The Florida State University in Tallahassee. In 2007-2008, she was a Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.

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• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0262083787
• ISBN 13: 9780262083782
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 308