Product Description: Includes bibliographical references and author index.

Product Description: For much of the first half of the twentieth century, meteorology was more art than science, dependent on an individual forecaster's lifetime of local experience. In Weather by the Numbers, Kristine Harper tells the story of the transformation of meteorology from a "guessing science" into a sophisticated scientific discipline based on physics and mathematics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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