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Calculating the weather : meteorology in the 20th century /

Examines the various roles of computation throughout the history of meteorology, paying attention to the period from World War I to the 1960s. This title explains how forecasting the weather became a physics-based science. It studies the impact of the computer on meteorology, and provides an example...

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Main Authors: Nebeker, Frederik
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: San Diego :
Publication Dates: 1995.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: International geophysics series ; v. 60
Subjects:
Meteorology > Methodology
Me te orologie > Me thodologie
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology
Meteorologie
Weersverwachtingen
Meteorology
Electronic books
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00746142/60
Summary: Examines the various roles of computation throughout the history of meteorology, paying attention to the period from World War I to the 1960s. This title explains how forecasting the weather became a physics-based science. It studies the impact of the computer on meteorology, and provides an example of science transformed by the computer.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (vii, 255 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-241) and index.
ISBN: 9780080528410
0080528414
Index Number: QC871
CLC: P40
Contents: pt. 1. Meteorology in 1900 -- pt. 2. Meteorology in the first half of the 20th century -- pt. 3. The beginning of the computer era in meteorology.

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