Title Calculating the weather : meteorology in the 20th century / Frederik Nebeker.

Publication Info.	San Diego : Academic Press, [1995]
	©1995

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 255 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	International geophysics series ; v. 60
	International geophysics series ; v. 60.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-241) and index.
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.
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.
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Subject	Meteorology -- Methodology.
	Meteorology -- Methodology.
Indexed Term	Meteorology
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Nebeker, Frederik. Calculating the weather. San Diego : Academic Press, ©1995 0125151756 9780125151757 (DLC) 94037625 (OCoLC)31289470
ISBN	9780080528410 (electronic book)
	0080528414 (electronic book)
	0125151756 (alkaline paper)
	9780125151757