• Medientyp: Buch
  • Titel: The evolution of meteorology : a look into the past, present, and future of weather forecasting
  • Enthält: Building blocks of meteorology (3000 BC -1950 AD). Ancient civilizations, philosophical theories, and folklore (3000 BC -1400 AD) -- Inventions of weather instruments (1400-1800) -- Birth of modern meteorology (1800-1950) -- The early television, computer, satellite, and radar era (1950-1980). Television and the first computerized advancements -- Radar and satellite history -- Modern day technologies, advancements, and social media impacts (1980-2013). Personal technology boom -- Covering major storms -- The rise of modern computer models -- Advancements within the nationalized governmental weather departments -- Meteorological agencies : globally to the private sector -- Current and future ideologies of climate change and meteorological processes. Climate change -- Extreme weather -- Additional meteorological impacts -- The future and direction of meteorology. Weather technology -- Global cooperation
  • Beteiligte: Teague, Kevin Anthony [VerfasserIn]; Gallicchio, Nicole [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Hoboken, NJ; Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2017
  • Umfang: xvii, 248 Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten; 24 cm
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 9781119136149
  • RVK-Notation: RB 10423 : Gesamtdarstellungen
    UB 2485 : Geophysik, Meteorologie, Physik der Aerosole
    UT 5080 : Geschichte der Meteorologie und Klimatologie
  • Schlagwörter: Meteorologie > Geschichte
    Wettervorhersage > Geschichte
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  • Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index

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