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