From Beaufort to Bjerknes and beyond : critical perspectives on observing, analyzing, and predicting weather and climate : a collection of nineteen essays evolving from a conference of the International Commission on History of Meteorology (ICHM) held in the Baroque Library of Kloster Polling, Germany, July 5-10, 2004 / edited by Stefan Emeis and Cornelia Lüdecke

Published: Augsburg : Rauner, 2005.
Physical Description: 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Additional Creators: Emeis, Stefan, Lüdecke, Cornelia, and International Commission on History of Meteorology

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Series

Algorismus ; Heft 52.

Contents

Polling and the academy : an 18th century competence centre : opening address / Heinrich Nöth -- Climate dynamics, science dynamics, and technological dynamics 1804-2004 / James R. Fleming -- The discovery of latent heat 250 years ago / Stefan Emeis -- Joseph Stepling and windstorms in Europe from 17-19 February 1756 / Jan Munzar -- The Societas Meterologica Palatina (1780-1795) and the very first beginnings of Hohenpeissenberg Observatory / Klaus Wege and Peter Winkler -- Early observations of and knowledge on air electricity and magnetism at Hohenpeissenberg during the Palatina era / Peter Winkler -- Astrometeorological weather prediction at the time of the Societas Meterologica Palatina / Cornelia Lüdecke -- Karl Ernst von Baer and the development of meteorology in Russia / Erki Tammiksaar -- The dialectic of the atmosphere : Heinrich Wilhelm Dove in context / Bernhard Fritscher -- Influence of weather and climate on fisheries : overview of the early history of the problem, 1850s-1950s / Julia A. Lajus -- Reconstructing the climate of the nineteenth-century East Asia from the perspective of the history of science / Togo Tsukahara -- The observation of the atmosphere in Tenerife Island during the last centuries and the mountain observatory in Izaña / Fernando de Ory and Manuel Palomares -- Felix Exner and the probabilistic turn in Austria meteorology / Deborah R. Coen -- Nice weather, meteors at the end of the day / Christina H. Barboza -- Hann's thermodynamic foehn theory and its presentation in meteorological textbooks in the course of time / Petra Seibert -- How lecture notes reflect the states of science and of technology : from Vilhelm Bjerknes' type-scripts of 1914-17 to pdf-files in 2004 / Hans Volkert, Michael Börngen and Ludwig A. Weickmann -- Bjerknes : like father, like son / Doria B. Grimes -- Bergen south : the Americanization of the meteorology profession in Latin America during World War II / Gregory T. Cushman -- The role of weather flights in the history of meteorology / John A. Kington -- Weather, finance and meteorology : forecasting and derivatives / Samuel C. Randalls.

Subject(s)

Meteorology—History—Congresses
Climatology—History—Congresses

ISBN

3936905134 (pbk.)
9783936905137 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of Acquisition

Earth & Mineral Sciences copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20078.

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Paterno Libraries Endowment

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