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Author: Jerry Lockett Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited ISBN: 1459500806 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 276
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How we learned to forecast weather--and the extraordinary story of the prediction that came true for one of the century's worst storms on the East Coast
Author: Jerry Lockett Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited ISBN: 1459500806 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
How we learned to forecast weather--and the extraordinary story of the prediction that came true for one of the century's worst storms on the East Coast
Author: Ian Roulstone Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400846226 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 344
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An accessible book that examines the mathematics of weather prediction Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times—the use of mathematics in weather prediction. Although humans have tried to forecast weather for millennia, mathematical principles were used in meteorology only after the turn of the twentieth century. From the first proposal for using mathematics to predict weather, to the supercomputers that now process meteorological information gathered from satellites and weather stations, Ian Roulstone and John Norbury narrate the groundbreaking evolution of modern forecasting. The authors begin with Vilhelm Bjerknes, a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who in 1904 came up with a method now known as numerical weather prediction. Although his proposed calculations could not be implemented without computers, his early attempts, along with those of Lewis Fry Richardson, marked a turning point in atmospheric science. Roulstone and Norbury describe the discovery of chaos theory's butterfly effect, in which tiny variations in initial conditions produce large variations in the long-term behavior of a system—dashing the hopes of perfect predictability for weather patterns. They explore how weather forecasters today formulate their ideas through state-of-the-art mathematics, taking into account limitations to predictability. Millions of variables—known, unknown, and approximate—as well as billions of calculations, are involved in every forecast, producing informative and fascinating modern computer simulations of the Earth system. Accessible and timely, Invisible in the Storm explains the crucial role of mathematics in understanding the ever-changing weather. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Author: Spencer R. Weart Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674417550 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 241
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The award-winning book is now revised and expanded.In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion--by way of unexpected twists and turns--was the story Spencer Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. Now he brings his award-winning account up to date, revised throughout to reflect the latest science and with a new conclusion that shows how the scientific consensus caught fire among the general world public, and how a new understanding of the human meaning of climate change spurred individuals and governments to action.
Author: Michael Allaby Publisher: Infobase Publishing ISBN: 0816060983 Category : Atmosphere Languages : en Pages : 257
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Presents a history of atmospheric studies, discussing such topics as the study of air, water, and gases throughout the ages, the classification of climates, the development of weather maps and forecasting, and the discovery and theory of the ice ages.
Author: Spencer R. Weart Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674016378 Category : Climatic changes Languages : en Pages : 244
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A capricious beast ever since the days when he had trudged around fossil lake basins in Nevada for his doctoral thesis, Broecker had been interested in sudden climate shifts. Here is his most surprising and important calculation.
Author: Jerry Lockett
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Author: United States. Weather Bureau