Historical essays on meteorology, 1919-1995

the Diamond Anniversary history volume of the American Meteorological Society

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Historical essays on meteorology, 1919-1995

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617

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Table of Contents

The evolution of dynamic meteorology / Edward N. Lorenz
The origin and rise of numerical weather prediction / George P. Cressman
The evolution of atmospheric measurement systems / Robert J. Serafin
A short history of radar meteorology / R.R. Rogers and P.L. Smith
Evolution of satellite observations in the United States and their use in meteorology / James F.W. Purdom and W. Paul Menzel
A history of calculating aids in meteorology / Frederik Nebeker
Formation of rain: a historical perspective / Roscoe R. Braham Jr.
A history of research in cloud dynamics and microphysics / Harold D. Orville
A history of hurricane forecasting for the Atlantic Basin, 1920-1995 / Mark DeMaria
Severe convective storms: a brief history of science and practice / Kenneth C. Crawford and Edwin Kessler
75 years of research on the physics of a lightning discharge / E. Philip Krider
Steps in the evolution of climatology: from descriptive to analytic / John E. Kutzbach
Applied climatology: a glorious past, an uncertain future / Stanley A. Changnon
Hydrology in the Twentieth Century / Edwin T. Engman
A history of private sector meteorology / David B. Spiegler
A history of aeronautical meteorology: personal perspectives, 1903-1995 / Gordon D. Cartwright and Charles H. Sprinkle
The American Meteorological Society and the development of broadcast meteorology / Roy Leep
From geo- to physical science: meteorology and the American university, 1919-1945 / William A. Koelsch
Meteorology education in the United States after 1945 / David D. Houghton
Historical writing on meteorology: an annotated bibliography / James R. Fleming and Simone L. Kaplan
Historical photo gallery / Julie A. Burba.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Many of the essays in this book were originally presented at the AMS diamond anniversary meeting in Dallas in January 1995." --p. xi

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Boston, MA

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Dewey Decimal Class
551.5
Library of Congress
QC855 .H58 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 617 p. :
Number of pages
617

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Open Library
OL1021567M
Internet Archive
historicalessays0000unse_z5a7
ISBN 10
1878220179
LCCN
96083535
OCLC/WorldCat
35633928
Library Thing
2136930
Goodreads
4748035

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