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Air Apparent : How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather by Mark Monmonier (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226534227
ISBN-139780226534220
eBay Product ID (ePID)802489
Product Key Features
Book TitleAir Apparent : How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
Number of Pages324 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicCartography, Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, History
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Science
AuthorMark Monmonier
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight21 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-025797
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal551.63/022/3
Table Of ContentPreface Acknowledgments 1. Seeing and Forecasting 2. Seeing and Understanding 3. Weather by Wire 4. Looking Up 5. Looking Ahead 6. Downwind Dangers 7. Looking Down 8. Looking Around 9. Spreading the News 10. Weather Channels and Web Sites 11. Hindsight As Insight 12. Managed Myopia Appendix: Web-site Addresses Notes Index
SynopsisWeather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In Air Apparent Mark Monmonier traces debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster, and discusses efforts to detect and control air pollution. Fascinating in its scope and detail, Air Apparent makes us take a second look at the weather map, an image that has been, and continues to be, central to our daily lives. "Clever title, rewarding book. Monmonier . . . offers here a basic course in meteorology, which he presents gracefully by means of a history of weather maps." -- Scientific American "Mark Monmonier is onto a winner with Air Apparent . . . . It is good, accessible science and excellent history. . . . Read it." --Fred Pearce, New Scientist " Air Apparent ] is a superb first reading for any backyard novice of weather . . . but even the veteran forecaster or researcher will find it engaging and, in some cases, enlightening." --Joe Venuti, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society "Monmonier is solid enough in his discussion of geographic and meteorological information to satisfy the experienced weather watcher. But even if this information were not presented in such a lively and engaging manner, it would still hook most any reader who checks the weather map every morning or who sits happily entranced through a full cycle of forecasts on the Weather Channel."--Michael Kennedy, Boston Globe, Weather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In Air Apparent Mark Monmonier traces debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster, and discusses efforts to detect and control air pollution. Fascinating in its scope and detail, Air Apparent makes us take a second look at the weather map, an image that has been, and continues to be, central to our daily lives. "Clever title, rewarding book. Monmonier . . . offers here a basic course in meteorology, which he presents gracefully by means of a history of weather maps." -- Scientific American "Mark Monmonier is onto a winner with Air Apparent . . . . It is good, accessible science and excellent history. . . . Read it." --Fred Pearce, New Scientist "[ Air Apparent ] is a superb first reading for any backyard novice of weather . . . but even the veteran forecaster or researcher will find it engaging and, in some cases, enlightening." --Joe Venuti, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society "Monmonier is solid enough in his discussion of geographic and meteorological information to satisfy the experienced weather watcher. But even if this information were not presented in such a lively and engaging manner, it would still hook most any reader who checks the weather map every morning or who sits happily entranced through a full cycle of forecasts on the Weather Channel."--Michael Kennedy, Boston Globe
LC Classification NumberQC878.M59 1999
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