Air Apparent : How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
Editorial Reviews
From Scientific American
Clever title, rewarding book. Monmonier, professor of geography at Syracuse University, offers here a basic course in meteorology, which he presents gracefully by means of a history of weather maps. The earliest of the many such maps that illustrate the book was published in 1686 by English astronomer Edmond Halley; it showed trade winds and monsoons in, as Halley put it, "the Seas between and near the Tropicks, with an Attempt to Assign the Phisical Cause of the Said Winds." By the end of the book, one is looking at maps based on such high-tech meteorological aids as weather satellites, radar and the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer. Contemporary meteorology, Monmonier says, is "arguably today's single most map-intensive scientific enterprise."
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
New Scientist, Fred Pearce
Air Apparent ... is good, accessible science and excellent history. Monmonier jumps skillfully from anecdote to meteorological theory to cartography. And he is no slouch at modern forecasts.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Air Apparent : How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather,Mark Monmonier,University Of Chicago Press,0226534235,Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology,General,History,Science,Science/Mathematics,Climatology,History of science,Science / Meteorology
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