Authors of the storm
Subtitle: meteorologists and the culture of prediction
By: Gary Alan Fine
Edition: pbk. ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Presses Marketing [distributor]
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill; Bristol
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780226249537
Subjects: Methodology; Psychology; Social aspects; Meteorologists; Meteorology; Weather forecasting
Description: This volume offers an inside look at how meteorologists and forecasters predict the weather. Based on field observation and interviews, the author describes a hard-working, insular clique of professionals who often refer to themselves as a "band of brothers." Readers learn their lingo, how they "read" weather conditions, how forecasts are written, and how those messages are conveyed to the public. Weather forecasts, the author maintains, are often shaped as much by social and cultural factors inside local offices as they are by approaching cumulus clouds.
Table of contents: title: On the floor; title: A cult of science; title: Futurework; title: Writing on the winds; title: Ground truth; title: A public science; title: Weather wise.