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050 00 $aQC871$b.N344 1995
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100 1 $aNebeker, Frederik.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr88012316
245 10 $aCalculating the weather :$bmeteorology in the 20th century /$cFrederik Nebeker.
260 $aSan Diego :$bAcademic Press,$c1995.
263 $a9504
300 $avii, 255 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aInternational geophysics series ;$vv. 60
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCh. 1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Meteorology in 1900. Ch. 2. An Empirical Tradition: Climatology. Ch. 3. A Theoretical Tradition: Physics of the Atmosphere. Ch. 4. A Practical Tradition: Weather Forecasting -- Pt. II. Meteorology in the First Half of the 20th Century. Ch. 5. Vilhelm Bjerknes's Program to Unify Meteorology. Ch. 6. Lewis Fry Richardson: The First Person to Compute the Weather. Ch. 7. The Growth of Meteorology. Ch. 8. Meteorological Calculation in the Interwar Period. Ch. 9. The Effect of World War II on Meteorology -- Pt. III. The Beginning of the Computer Era in Meteorology. Ch. 10. John von Neumann's Meteorology Project. Ch. 11. The Acceptance of Numerical Meteorology. Ch. 12. The Unification of Meteorology. Ch. 13. The Recognition of Limits to Weather Prediction.
520 $aDuring 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 the various roles of computation throughout the history of meteorology, giving most attention to the period from World War I to the 1960s. The electronic digital computer, a product of World War II, led to great advances in empirical, theoretical, and practical meteorology.
520 8 $aAt the same time, the use of the computer led to the discovery of so-called "chaotic systems" and to the recognition that there may well be fundamental limits to predicting the weather. One of the very few books covering 20th century meteorology, this text is an excellent supplement to any course in general meteorology, forecasting, or history of science.
650 0 $aMeteorology$xMethodology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084341
830 0 $aInternational geophysics series ;$vv. 60.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42013551
852 00 $bglg$hQC871$i.N344 1995