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The Weather Experiment

Author : Peter Moore
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374711275
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Weather Experiment written by Peter Moore and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of weather forecasting, and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the weather. A century after the death of Newton, the laws that governed the heavens were entirely unknown, and weather forecasting was the stuff of folklore and superstition. Peter Moore's The Weather Experiment is the account of a group of naturalists, engineers, and artists who conquered the elements. It describes their travels and experiments, their breakthroughs and bankruptcies, with picaresque vigor. It takes readers from Irish bogs to a thunderstorm in Guanabara Bay to the basket of a hydrogen balloon 8,500 feet over Paris. And it captures the particular bent of mind—combining the Romantic love of Nature and the Enlightenment love of Reason—that allowed humanity to finally decipher the skies.

The Weather Channel Pioneers

Author : Joseph D'Aleo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986184168
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Weather Channel Pioneers written by Joseph D'Aleo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of personal stories and memories from the individuals that worked at The Weather Channel in its start-up days of the early 1980s; among these Weather Channel Pioneers, special focus is given to the leadership and vision of the channel's early champions John Coleman and Joe D'Aleo.

Pioneers in the World of Weather and Climatology

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1615307435
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Pioneers in the World of Weather and Climatology written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes fickle and often devastating in its most extreme forms, the weather can seem inscrutable. Yet our understanding of weather systems and climate has improved greatly over the years due to the work of scientists dedicated to studying the planets meteorological conditions. This absorbing volume introduces readers to individuals who have stood at the forefront of deciphering weather-related phenomena and advanced the science of climatology.

The Beginning of the National Weather Service

Author : Gary K. Grice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Beginning of the National Weather Service written by Gary K. Grice and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Weather Pioneers

Author : Phyllis Smith
Publisher : Swallow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Weather Pioneers written by Phyllis Smith and published by Swallow Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's highest, in 1873 when the facility was opened. Smith gives a lively account of the Signal Corps weathermen and the inadequate station. Paper edition (0970-8), $12.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Kentucky Weather

Author : Jerry Hill
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813159725
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Weather written by Jerry Hill and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said of just about every state: "If you don't like the weather, stick around. It'll change." In Kentucky, however, this time-worn cliché carries more than a grain of truth. Weather and its vagaries are an obsession in the state, not only because the commonwealth relies heavily on weather-sensitive industries such as agriculture, transportation, and tourism, but also because weather changes are indeed frequent and often abrupt. In Kentucky Weather, meteorologist Jerry Hill explains how the atmosphere creates Kentucky's weather, and he provides insights into what conditions affect temperature, precipitation, storms, drought, and other aspects of the state's climate. He links the state's volatile weather history to the creation of its rich coalfields and explains how past ice ages helped form Kentucky's fertile farmland. Additionally, the book examines tools and techniques for measuring and predicting weather and recounts the lore and superstitions associated with weather phenomena. Hill also discusses key weather events in Kentucky's history. He describes the rainstorm that saved pioneers from an Indian attack on Fort Boonesboro in 1778; the Great Flood of 1937; the devastating tornado outbreak of April 1974, when twenty-seven tornadoes raced across the state in a single day; and the severe ice storm that crippled much of central Kentucky in 2003. Illustrated with photographs of noteworthy weather events with tables, charts and graphs detailing everything from record high and low temperatures to statistics on tornadoes, snowfall, and thunderstorms, Kentucky Weather is filled with significant and unusual facts in the history of the Bluegrass State's changeable climate.

Big Weather

Author : Mark Svenvold
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805080148
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Big Weather written by Mark Svenvold and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author profiles real tornadoes and severe weather patterns over six thousand miles of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, known as Tornado Alley.

A Century of Weather Service

Author : Patrick Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Weather Service written by Patrick Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Storm Watchers

Author : John D. Cox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471444863
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Storm Watchers written by John D. Cox and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-11-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, inspiring account of the pioneers who sought toaccurately predict the weather Benjamin Franklin . . . James P. Espy . . . Cleveland Abbe . . .Carl-Gustaf Rossby . . . Jule G. Charney . . . just a few of theremarkable individuals who struggled against formidable odds tounderstand the atmosphere and predict the weather. Where they sawpatterns and processes, others saw randomness and tumult-and yetthey strove to make their voices heard, often saving lives in theprocess. Storm Watchers takes you on a fascinating journey through time thatcaptures the evolution of weather forecasting. From the age whenmeteorology was considered one step removed from sorcery to themodern-day wizardry of supercomputers, John Cox introduces you tothe pioneering scientists whose work fulfilled an ancient dream andmade it possible to foretell the future. He tells the little-knownstories of these weathermen, such as Ptolemy's weather predictionsbased on astrology, John Finley's breakthrough research inidentifying tornadoes, and Tor Bergeron's new techniques of weatherforecasting, which contributed to its final worldwideacceptance. Filled with extraordinary tales of bravery and sacrifice, StormWatchers will make you think twice the next time you turn on thelocal news to catch the weather report.

Weather

Author : Andrew Revkin
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1454932457
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Weather written by Andrew Revkin and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award–winning journalist, a “beautifully illustrated” book describing “the most pivotal moments . . . in the climate’s rich . . . 4.5 billion-year history.” (The Washington Post) Colorful and captivating, Weather: An Illustrated History hopscotches through 100 meteorological milestones and insights, from prehistory to today’s headlines and tomorrow’s forecasts. Bite-sized narratives, accompanied by exciting illustrations, touch on such varied topics as Earth’s first atmosphere, the physics of rainbows, the deadliest hailstorm, Groundhog Day, the invention of air conditioning, London’s Great Smog, the Year Without Summer, our increasingly strong hurricanes, and the Paris Agreement on climate change. A groundbreaking work by prominent environmental journalist and author Andrew Revkin, Weather: An Illustrated History presents an intriguing history of humanity’s evolving relationship with Earth’s dynamic climate system and the wondrous weather it generates. “FINALLY, someone has done something about the weather. Andrew Revkin and Lisa Mechaley have given us a startlingly fascinating book about how weather got the way it is, and how we’ve reacted to it, used it, and even helped shape it. There are a hundred captivating stories in this book that are as enlightening as they are fun. Reading them is like seeing the clouds part and the sun come out.” —Alan Alda, longtime host of Scientific American Frontiers and a founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University ”Informative, addictively readable . . . Highly recommended.” —Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award winner for In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex ”A gift of a book—at once fascinating, informative, and surprising.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction

Hurricane Pioneer

Author : Robert H. Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935704751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Hurricane Pioneer written by Robert H. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The memoirs of Robert H. Simpson, meteorologist, hurricane researcher, and co-creator of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale"--

The Interplanetary Pioneers

Author : William R. Corliss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interplanetary Pioneers written by William R. Corliss and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Interplanetary Pioneers: Summary

Author : William R. Corliss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Interplanetary Pioneers: Summary written by William R. Corliss and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Manual of Meteorology

Author : Napier Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107475465
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Manual of Meteorology written by Napier Shaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1926, this book by the renowned British meteorologist Napier Shaw focuses on the history of meteorology.

Manual of Meteorology ...: Meteorology in history

Author : Napier Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Manual of Meteorology ...: Meteorology in history written by Napier Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Weather Companion

Author : Gary Lockhart
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470355425
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Weather Companion written by Gary Lockhart and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Weather Companion An Album of Meteorological History, Science, Legend, and Folklore Throughout history, as farmer, sailor, hunter, and artist, humans have watched and worried about the weather. We have devised ways to observe it, to predict it, to protect ourselves from it, to take advantage of it. It plays a major role in the science and folklore of every culture. Gary Lockhart's The Weather Companion is a fascinating compendium of meteorological facts and fables, from ancient myths to the latest research, from the rain forests to the desert regions. You'll learn about the meteorology of Noah's flood; methods of forecasting; the behavior of weather cycles; weather predictors such as the thickness of corn husks, the height of saw grass, and the behavior of animals; weather prophets; and much more. Gary Lockhart reveals what makes rain "smell," how natural barometers work, and the long history of weather fish, once kept to predict rain, and revived during China's Cultural Revolution. You'll even learn the best time to go fishing! Beautifully illustrated, captivating and original, The Weather Companion is a delightful experience for all ages. Your skies and sunsets will never be the same.

The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers

Author : Henry Childs Merwin
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers written by Henry Childs Merwin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents an incredible biography of the American author and poet Bret Harte. The book explores Harte's life, from his childhood to his rise to literary fame in the late 19th century and his involvement in the California Gold Rush. Merwin also provides insights into California's cultural and historical context during the mid-1800s and its impact on Harte's literary works. The book is essential for those interested in American literature and California's rich history.