Masters of uncertainty
Subtitle: weather forecasters and the quest for ground truth
By: Phaedra Daipha
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780226298542; 9780226298689
Subjects: United States; United States. National Weather Service; Weather forecasting; Decision making
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Decision making under uncertainty; title: The weather prediction enterprise; title: Working the weather; title: Distilling complexity; title: Managing risk; title: Anticipating the future; title: Whose weather is it anyway?; title: Toward a sociology of decision making.