TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moore,Peter
TI  - The Weather Experiment: the Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
SN  - 0374536201
AV  - QC858.A2 M66 2016
U1  - 551.5092/2 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
KW  - Meteorologists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Climatologists
KW  - Meteorology
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Weather forecasting
KW  - fast
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. --
ER  -