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Minding the Weather

Author : Robert R. Hoffman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026254881X
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Minding the Weather written by Robert R. Hoffman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of research on the psychology of expertise in weather forecasting, drawing on findings in cognitive science, meteorology, and computer science. This book argues that the human cognition system is the least understood, yet probably most important, component of forecasting accuracy. Minding the Weather investigates how people acquire massive and highly organized knowledge and develop the reasoning skills and strategies that enable them to achieve the highest levels of performance. The authors consider such topics as the forecasting workplace; atmospheric scientists' descriptions of their reasoning strategies; the nature of expertise; forecaster knowledge, perceptual skills, and reasoning; and expert systems designed to imitate forecaster reasoning. Drawing on research in cognitive science, meteorology, and computer science, the authors argue that forecasting involves an interdependence of humans and technologies. Human expertise will always be necessary.

Integrating Social and Behavioral Sciences Within the Weather Enterprise

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309464226
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Integrating Social and Behavioral Sciences Within the Weather Enterprise written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our ability to observe and forecast severe weather events has improved markedly over the past few decades. Forecasts of snow and ice storms, hurricanes and storm surge, extreme heat, and other severe weather events are made with greater accuracy, geographic specificity, and lead time to allow people and communities to take appropriate protective measures. Yet hazardous weather continues to cause loss of life and result in other preventable social costs. There is growing recognition that a host of social and behavioral factors affect how we prepare for, observe, predict, respond to, and are impacted by weather hazards. For example, an individual's response to a severe weather event may depend on their understanding of the forecast, prior experience with severe weather, concerns about their other family members or property, their capacity to take the recommended protective actions, and numerous other factors. Indeed, it is these factors that can determine whether or not a potential hazard becomes an actual disaster. Thus, it is essential to bring to bear expertise in the social and behavioral sciences (SBS)â€"including disciplines such as anthropology, communication, demography, economics, geography, political science, psychology, and sociologyâ€"to understand how people's knowledge, experiences, perceptions, and attitudes shape their responses to weather risks and to understand how human cognitive and social dynamics affect the forecast process itself. Integrating Social and Behavioral Sciences Within the Weather Enterprise explores and provides guidance on the challenges of integrating social and behavioral sciences within the weather enterprise. It assesses current SBS activities, describes the potential value of improved integration of SBS and barriers that impede this integration, develops a research agenda, and identifies infrastructural and institutional arrangements for successfully pursuing SBS-weather research and the transfer of relevant findings to operational settings.

Inventing Atmospheric Science

Author : James Rodger Fleming
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262033941
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Atmospheric Science written by James Rodger Fleming and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This big picture history of atmospheric research examines the first six decades of the twentieth century, from the dawn of applied fluid dynamics to the emergence, by 1960, of the interdisciplinary atmospheric sciences. Using newly available archival sources, it documents the work of three interconnected generations of scientists: Vilhelm Bjerknes, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, and Harry Wexler, whose aspirations were fueled by new theoretical insights, pressing societal needs, and expanded technological capabilities. Radio, radar, aviation, nuclear tracers, digital computing, sounding rockets, and satellites provided new ways to measure and study the global atmosphere -- a huge and dauntingly complex system. Bjerknes brought us a fundamental circulation theorem and founded the Bergen school of weather forecasting; Rossby established the graduate schools of meteorology at M.I.T., Chicago, and Stockholm, which focused on upper-air dynamics and, after 1947, on atmospheric environmental issues; and Wexler brought all the new technologies into the U.S. Weather Bureau and, with his colleague Jule Charney, prepared the foundations for the emergence of the interdisciplinary atmospheric sciences. This history weaves together cold war studies, military history, the rise of government research and development, and aviation and aeronautics with a nascent global awareness. It is a fascinating history of something we all experience--the weather --told through compelling historical characters"--Provided by publisher.

Florida Historical Society Quarterly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Florida Historical Society Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Florida Historical Quarterly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Florida Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thinking about Weather

Author : Natalie Lunis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781400754472
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Thinking about Weather written by Natalie Lunis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student Book

Expertise Out of Context

Author : Robert R. Hoffman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0805855106
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Expertise Out of Context written by Robert R. Hoffman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers have revealed that real expertise, while applied to well-defined tasks with highly circumscribed contexts, often stretches beyond its routine boundaries. For example, a medical doctor may be called upon to diagnose a rare disease or perform emergency surgery outside his or her area of specialization because other experts are not available. Moreover, in some cases, the context for expertise is in a constant state of flux, such that no one case is identical. Expertise Out of Context is a culmination of some of the most insightful studies conducted by researchers in the fields of cognitive systems engineering and naturalistic decision making in the effort to better understand expertise and its development. Born out of the Sixth International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, a conference that gathers researchers who study cognition, perception, and reasoning outside of the traditional laboratory, this book is organized in five parts, the first of which provides an overview of the topic and presents varied perspectives. Consequent sections cover how to make sense of things, tools for thinking out of context, how to cope with uncertainty in a changing workplace, and teams operating out of context. As researchers in naturalistic decision making have investigated such areas as the knowledge and decision-making skills of expert firefighters, critical care nurses, military commanders, and aircraft pilots, this volume is of importance to an expansive audience, including individuals in business, government, industry, and society at large.

L.A. Weather

Author : María Amparo Escandón
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250802571
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book L.A. Weather written by María Amparo Escandón and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • 2022 INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of a Mexican American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza’s Box of Saints. “There’s a 100% chance you’ll be paging through this book to uncover the secrets and deception that could potentially burn everything down!”—Reese Witherspoon “This is by far one of the most endearing L.A. novels in recent memory.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A lively and ambitious family novel."—New York Times Book Review Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants a little rain. L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and he’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters—Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia, a successful architect who suffers from gentrification guilt; and Patricia, a social media wizard who has an uncanny knack for connecting with audiences but not with her lovers—are left questioning everything they know. Each will have to take a critical look at her own relationships and make some tough decisions along the way. With quick wit and humor, María Amparo Escandón follows the Alvarado family as they wrestle with impending evacuations, secrets, deception, and betrayal, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.

Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture

Author : Ohio State Board of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture written by Ohio State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Weather In The Streets

Author : Rosamond Lehmann
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 1405526858
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Weather In The Streets written by Rosamond Lehmann and published by Virago. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A truly great book. It is beautifully written, shrewdly observed and deftly crafted, but the novel's real concern is what it means for a woman to live an authentic life' Elizabeth Day A chance encounter with the man who enchanted her as a teenager leads Olivia Curtis into to a forbidden love affair. He is now married, and Olivia's life changes to one of secret meetings, brief phone calls and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first published in 1936, this subtle and powerful novel shocked it readers with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love. * Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

Proceedings ...

Author : New York State Agricultural Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings ... written by New York State Agricultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

Author : New York State Agricultural Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Meeting written by New York State Agricultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the Year ...

Author : New York State Agricultural Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the Year ... written by New York State Agricultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National Geographic Extreme Weather Survival Guide

Author : Thomas M. Kostigen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426213778
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book National Geographic Extreme Weather Survival Guide written by Thomas M. Kostigen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricanes, floods, wildfires, tornadoes--weather is becoming extreme, and this book tells you how to plan ahead and prepare, respond to emergencies, and survive the worst-case scenarios. From the risks of building on changing coastlines to the safety kit you should have packed up at home, from the telltale signs of a hurricane on the horizon to how to power up when the grid goes down--this will be the one book to carry with you through all kinds of bad weather. Divided into four sections (Hot, Cold, Wet, Dry) each chapter includes a level-headed discussion of current weather extremes, facts and details on conditions, and theories for why these changes are occurring; dos and don'ts for inside and outside; and gives at-a-glance guidance for how to prepare for, survive, and recover from every extreme. Sidebar features include: gears and gadgets; protecting your pet; and firsthand accounts from survivors and the experts who help them. Spectacular photographs of wicked weather plus useful checklists and how-to illustrations make page after page both useful and entertaining, even when you're contemplating the unthinkable.

Making the Weather

Author : Alexander McAdie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Making the Weather written by Alexander McAdie and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Text-Book of Long Range Weather Forecasting

Author : George J. McCormack
Publisher : Astrology Classics
ISBN 13 : 193330345X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Text-Book of Long Range Weather Forecasting written by George J. McCormack and published by Astrology Classics. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George J. McCormack, (1887-1974) had a life-long interest in astrology and the weather. Inspired by the astrometeorological work of A.J. Pearce (1840-1923), McCormack meticulously tracked and recorded the weather, from before World War I, until his death more than half a century later. In 1947, after 23 years of research, he published his "key" to long-range weather forecasting, being this book. Confident of his ability, in the spring of 1947 McCormack predicted one of the most severe winters in decades, specifically forecasting the infamous snows of December 26, 1947. He was nationally famous overnight. The techniques he used are in this amazing book. With study, they will become yours. The weather bureau predicts the weather, day by day, by careful observation of current conditions. You can learn to predict based on underlying celestial factors, which can be known months, even years, in advance. In 1963, before the US Weather Bureau, and again in 1964, before the American Meteorological Society, McCormack presented his life's work. Both groups ignored him, to our great loss. Use this book, make a better choice.

Weather and Climate through Infographics

Author : Rebecca Rowell
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
ISBN 13 : 154152876X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Weather and Climate through Infographics written by Rebecca Rowell and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to breeze through weather and climate facts just might cause a brain freeze! You're showered with details about extreme temperatures (Earth's record high is 134°F and record low is -129°F), crazy heights (our atmosphere extends 6,200 miles above Earth), and even huger mysteries (how predictions in weather and climate work). How can all these big numbers and concepts make more sense? Infographics! The charts, maps, and illustrations in this book tell a visual story to help you better understand key concepts about weather and climate. Crack open this book to explore mind-boggling questions such as: • How do cold and warm fronts change weather? • How can cities at similar latitudes have significantly different climates? • How do ocean currents help create winds, temperature changes, and storms? The answers are sure to blow you away!