From Beaufort to Bjerknes and beyond
Subtitle: critical perspectives on observing, analyzing, and predicting weather and climate : a collection of nineteen essays evolving from a conference of the International Commission on History of Meteorology (ICHM) held in the Baroque Library of Kloster Polling, Germany, July 5-10, 2004
By: edited by Stefan Emeis and Cornelia Lüdecke.
Contributors: Emeis, Stefan.; Lüdecke, Cornelia.; International Commission on History of Meteorology.
Series: Algorismus -- Heft 52
Publisher: E. Rauner
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Augsburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Meteorology -- History -- Congresses.; Climatology -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Polling and the academy : an 18th century competence centre : opening address / Heinrich Nöth; title: Climate dynamics, science dynamics, and technological dynamics 1804-2004 / James R. Fleming; title: The discovery of latent heat 250 years ago / Stefan Emeis; title: Joseph Stepling and windstorms in Europe from 17-19 February 1756 / Jan Munzar; title: The Societas Meterologica Palatina (1780-1795) and the very first beginnings of Hohenpeissenberg Observatory / Klaus Wege and Peter Winkler; title: Early observations of and knowledge on air electricity and magnetism at Hohenpeissenberg during the Palatina era / Peter Winkler; title: Astrometeorological weather prediction at the time of the Societas Meterologica Palatina / Cornelia Lüdecke; title: Karl Ernst von Baer and the development of meteorology in Russia / Erki Tammiksaar; title: The dialectic of the atmosphere : Heinrich Wilhelm Dove in context / Bernhard Fritscher; title: Influence of weather and climate on fisheries : overview of the early history of the problem, 1850s-1950s / Julia A. Lajus; title: Reconstructing the climate of the nineteenth-century East Asia from the perspective of the history of science / Togo Tsukahara; title: The observation of the atmosphere in Tenerife Island during the last centuries and the mountain observatory in Izaña / Fernando de Ory and Manuel Palomares; title: Felix Exner and the probablistic turn in Austria meteorology / Deborah R. Coen; title: Nice weather, meteors at the end of the day / Christina H. Barboza; title: Hann's thermodynamic foehn theory and its presentation in meteorological textbooks in the course of time / Petra Seibert; title: How lecture notes reflect the states of science and of technology : from Vilhelm Bjerknes' type-scripts of 1914-17 to pdf-files in 2004 / Hans Volkert, Michael Börngen and Ludwig A. Weickmann; title: Bjerknes : like father, like son / Doria B. Grimes; title: Bergen south : the Americanization of the meteorology profession in Latin America during World War II / Gregory T. Cushman; title: The role of weather flights in the history of meteorology / John A. Kington; title: Weather, finance and meteorology : forecasting and derivatives / Samuel C. Randalls.