Calculating the weather meteorology in the 20th century
During the course of this century, meteorology has become unified, physics-based, and highly computational. Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in the 20th Century explains this transformation by examining thevarious roles of computation throughout the history of meteorology, giving most attention...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Academic Press
c1995, 1995
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| Series: | International geophysics series
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| Collection: | Elsevier ScienceDirect eBooks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-241) and index
- climatology ; A theoretical tradition : physics of the atmosphere ; A practical tradition : weather forecasting
- Meteorology in the first half of the 20th century. Vilhelm Bjerknes's program to unify meteorology ; Lewis Fry Richardson : the first person to compute the weather ; The growth of meteorology ; Meteorological calculation in the interwar period ; The effect of World War II on meteorology
- The beginning of the computer era in meteorology. John von Neumann's meteorology project ; The acceptance of numerical meteorology ; The unification of meteorology ; The recognition of limits to weather prediction