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Historical essays on meteorology, 1919-1995 : the Diamond Anniversary history volume of the American Meteorological Society
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- Creator
- edited by James Rodger Fleming ; [foreword by Warren M. Washington]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston, MA : American Meteorological Society, 1996
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 617 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781878220172, 1878220179
- OCLC
- ocm35633928
- "Many of the essays in this book were originally presented at the AMS diamond anniversary meeting in Dallas in January 1995." --p. xi
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The evolution of dynamic meteorology / Edward N. Lorenz -- The origin and rise of numerical weather prediction / George P. Cressman -- The evolution of atmospheric measurement systems / Robert J. Serafin -- A short history of radar meteorology / R.R. Rogers and P.L. Smith -- Evolution of satellite observations in the United States and their use in meteorology / James F.W. Purdom and W. Paul Menzel -- A history of calculating aids in meteorology / Frederik Nebeker -- Formation of rain: a historical perspective / Roscoe R. Braham Jr. -- A history of research in cloud dynamics and microphysics / Harold D. Orville -- A history of hurricane forecasting for the Atlantic Basin, 1920-1995 / Mark DeMaria -- Severe convective storms: a brief history of science and practice / Kenneth C. Crawford and Edwin Kessler -- 75 years of research on the physics of a lightning discharge / E. Philip Krider -- Steps in the evolution of climatology: from descriptive to analytic / John E. Kutzbach -- Applied climatology: a glorious past, an uncertain future / Stanley A. Changnon --
- Hydrology in the Twentieth Century / Edwin T. Engman -- A history of private sector meteorology / David B. Spiegler -- A history of aeronautical meteorology: personal perspectives, 1903-1995 / Gordon D. Cartwright and Charles H. Sprinkle -- The American Meteorological Society and the development of broadcast meteorology / Roy Leep -- From geo- to physical science: meteorology and the American university, 1919-1945 / William A. Koelsch -- Meteorology education in the United States after 1945 / David D. Houghton -- Historical writing on meteorology: an annotated bibliography / James R. Fleming and Simone L. Kaplan -- Historical photo gallery / Julie A. Burba