Weather by the numbers: the genesis of modern meteorology
The history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology
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| Zusammenfassung: | The history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index ; Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 308 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780262083782 9780262517355 |
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WEATHER BY THE NUMBERS / HARPER, KRISTINE : C2008 TABLE OF
CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS A STAGNANT ATMOSPHERE : THE WEATHER
SERVICES BEFORE WORLD WAR II TOWARD A MORE DYNAMIC ATMOSPHERE :
DISCIPLINE DEVELOPMENT IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD (1919-1938) AN EXPANDING
ATMOSPHERE : THE WAR YEARS (1939-1945) INITIAL ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS :
SCIENTIFIC GOALS, CIVILIAN MANPOWER, AND MILITARY FUNDING (1944-1948) AN
INTERNATIONAL ATMOSPHERE : CARL-GUSTAV RROSSBY AND THE SCANDINAVIAN
CONNECTION (1948-1950) CREATING A REALISTIC ATMOSPHERE (1950-1952) A
CHANGING ATMOSPHERE : FROM DEVELOPMENTAL TO OPERATIONAL NUMERICAL
WEATHER PREDICTION (1952-1955) A NEW ATMOSPHERE. DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK
WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
Kristine c.
harper
Weather by the Numbers
the genesis of modern
meteorology
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
numerical weather prediction had foundered on the human inabil¬
ity to solve nonlinear equations quickly enough for timely forecast¬
ing. After World War II, the combination of an expanded observation
network developed for military purposes, newly trained meteo¬
rologists savvy about math and physics, and the nascent digital
computer created a new way of approaching atmospheric theory
and weather forecasting.
Harper examines the efforts of meteorologists to professionalize
their discipline during the interwar years and the rapid expansion
of personnel and observational assets during World War II. She de¬
scribes how, by the
1950s,
academic, Weather Bureau, and military
meteorologists had moved atmospheric modeling from research
subject to operational forecasting. Challenging previous accounts
that give sole credit for the development of numerical weather
prediction to digital computer inventor John
von
Neumann, Harper
points to the crucial contributions of
Carl-Gustav
Rossby (founder
of MIT's meteorology program and a member of the "Scandinavian
Tag Team"). This transformation of a discipline, Harper writes, was
the most important intellectual achievement of twentieth-century
meteorology, and paved the way for the growth of computer-assisted
modeling in all the sciences. |
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WEATHER BY THE NUMBERS / HARPER, KRISTINE : C2008 TABLE OF
CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS A STAGNANT ATMOSPHERE : THE WEATHER
SERVICES BEFORE WORLD WAR II TOWARD A MORE DYNAMIC ATMOSPHERE :
DISCIPLINE DEVELOPMENT IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD (1919-1938) AN EXPANDING
ATMOSPHERE : THE WAR YEARS (1939-1945) INITIAL ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS :
SCIENTIFIC GOALS, CIVILIAN MANPOWER, AND MILITARY FUNDING (1944-1948) AN
INTERNATIONAL ATMOSPHERE : CARL-GUSTAV RROSSBY AND THE SCANDINAVIAN
CONNECTION (1948-1950) CREATING A REALISTIC ATMOSPHERE (1950-1952) A
CHANGING ATMOSPHERE : FROM DEVELOPMENTAL TO OPERATIONAL NUMERICAL
WEATHER PREDICTION (1952-1955) A NEW ATMOSPHERE. DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK
WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
Kristine c.
harper
Weather by the Numbers
the genesis of modern
meteorology
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
numerical weather prediction had foundered on the human inabil¬
ity to solve nonlinear equations quickly enough for timely forecast¬
ing. After World War II, the combination of an expanded observation
network developed for military purposes, newly trained meteo¬
rologists savvy about math and physics, and the nascent digital
computer created a new way of approaching atmospheric theory
and weather forecasting.
Harper examines the efforts of meteorologists to professionalize
their discipline during the interwar years and the rapid expansion
of personnel and observational assets during World War II. She de¬
scribes how, by the
1950s,
academic, Weather Bureau, and military
meteorologists had moved atmospheric modeling from research
subject to operational forecasting. Challenging previous accounts
that give sole credit for the development of numerical weather
prediction to digital computer inventor John
von
Neumann, Harper
points to the crucial contributions of
Carl-Gustav
Rossby (founder
of MIT's meteorology program and a member of the "Scandinavian
Tag Team"). This transformation of a discipline, Harper writes, was
the most important intellectual achievement of twentieth-century
meteorology, and paved the way for the growth of computer-assisted
modeling in all the sciences. |
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