Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910
Taming the Weather
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 16 July 2019
- ISBN 9780367244590
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages430 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 960 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 19 Halftones, black & white; 22 Line drawings, black & white; 1 Tables, black & white 0
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Short description:
This book is the history of how weather forecasting was moulded and modelled by the processes of nation-state building and statistics in the western world.
MoreLong description:
Weather forecasting is the most visible branch of meteorology and has its modern roots in the nineteenth century when scientists redefined meteorology in the way weather forecasts were made, developing maps of isobars, or lines of equal atmospheric pressure, as the main forecasting tool. This book is the history of how weather forecasting was moulded and modelled by the processes of nation-state building and statistics in the Western world.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - Pre-1850 conceptualizations of storms
CHAPTER 2 - Meteorology and statistics before 1854
CHAPTER 3 - The adoption of an Eulerian approach by state interests
CHAPTER 4 - The Lagrangian approach as a counterweight
CHAPTER 5 - The convergence between statistics and synoptic method
CHAPTER 6 - The hegemony of the Eulerian approach and the beginning of its end
CHAPTER 7 - Behind weather forecasting: national interests and the primacy of public service over research
CHAPTER 8 - Meteorological cartography
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