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The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future / Peter Moore.

By: Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016Edition: First American paperback editionDescription: xvi, 395 pages, unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0374536201
  • 9780374536206
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 551.5092/2 23
LOC classification:
  • QC858.A2 M66 2016
Contents:
The weather experiment -- Dawn -- Seeing. Writing in the air ; Nature caught in the very act ; Rain, wind, and the wondrous cold -- Morning -- Contesting. Detectives ; Trembling air, whirling winds ; Liquid lightning -- Midday -- Experimenting. Steady eyes, delicate skies ; Beginnings ; Dangerous paths -- Afternoon -- Believing. Dazzling bright ; Endings ; Truth telling -- Dusk -- West winds -- Stars in FitzRoy's meteorological galaxy.
Awards:
  • ASLI Choice Award
Summary: A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. -- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC858 .A2 .M66 2016 1 Available 50583020010587
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-380) and index.

The weather experiment -- Dawn -- Seeing. Writing in the air ; Nature caught in the very act ; Rain, wind, and the wondrous cold -- Morning -- Contesting. Detectives ; Trembling air, whirling winds ; Liquid lightning -- Midday -- Experimenting. Steady eyes, delicate skies ; Beginnings ; Dangerous paths -- Afternoon -- Believing. Dazzling bright ; Endings ; Truth telling -- Dusk -- West winds -- Stars in FitzRoy's meteorological galaxy.

A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. -- Provided by publisher.

ASLI Choice Award

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