This book is the history of how weather forecasting was moulded and modelled by the processes of nation-state building and statistics in the western world.
This book is the history of how weather forecasting was moulded and modelled by the processes of nation-state building and statistics in the western world.
List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction CHAPTER 1 - Pre-1850 conceptualizations of storms CHAPTER 2 - Meteorology and statistics before 1854 CHAPTER 3 - The adoption of an Eulerian approach by state interests CHAPTER 4 - The Lagrangian approach as a counterweight CHAPTER 5 - The convergence between statistics and synoptic method CHAPTER 6 - The hegemony of the Eulerian approach and the beginning of its end CHAPTER 7 - Behind weather forecasting: national interests and the primacy of public service over research CHAPTER 8 - Meteorological cartography
List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction CHAPTER 1 - Pre-1850 conceptualizations of storms CHAPTER 2 - Meteorology and statistics before 1854 CHAPTER 3 - The adoption of an Eulerian approach by state interests CHAPTER 4 - The Lagrangian approach as a counterweight CHAPTER 5 - The convergence between statistics and synoptic method CHAPTER 6 - The hegemony of the Eulerian approach and the beginning of its end CHAPTER 7 - Behind weather forecasting: national interests and the primacy of public service over research CHAPTER 8 - Meteorological cartography
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