
Air Apparent
How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
Mark S. Monmonier(Author)
University of Chicago Press
2nd Edition
Published on 15. April 1999
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-226-53422-0 (ISBN)
Description
Every night across the country, viewers tune in to their evening news to glimpse the next day's weather. They are treated to graphic images of invading air masses, colliding fronts, and growing tropical storms. This book is the story of this tool, the weather map, which in its many forms has made the atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. No other maps are so spontaneously timely, so widely and frequently consulted, and so central to the daily activities of so many. The singular history of the weather map developed around the twin poles of weather's many facets and the public's varied needs. Mark Monmonier traces the contentious debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains the strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster, and exposes the efforts to detect and control air pollution. He introduces Karl Theodor, a Bavarian politician who devised one of the first weather-tracking networks in the late-18th century, and Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, who drew the first maps of European weather in 1819 - for the year of 1783.
Monmonier also explores the interaction between technology - from the telegraph to the Internet - and weather forecasting.
Monmonier also explores the interaction between technology - from the telegraph to the Internet - and weather forecasting.
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
22 colour plates, 4 halftones, 89 line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-53422-0 (9780226534220)
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Content
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Seeing and Forecasting 2. Seeing and Understanding 3. Weather by Wire 4. Looking Up 5. Looking Ahead 6. Downwind Dangers 7. Looking Down 8. Looking Around 9. Spreading the News 10. Weather Channels and Web Sites 11. Hindsight As Insight 12. Managed Myopia Appendix: Web-site Addresses Notes Index