Inventing atmospheric science : Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the foundations of modern meteorology /
"This big picture history of atmospheric research examines the first six decades of the twentieth century, from the dawn of applied fluid dynamics to the emergence, by 1960, of the interdisciplinary atmospheric sciences. Using newly available archival sources, it documents the work of three int...
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
[2016]
Cambridge, Massachusetts : [2016] |
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Table of Contents:
- Bjerknes
- Rossby
- Wexler
- Atmospheric sciences
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Bjerknes 13
- 3 Rossby 77
- 4 Wexler 129
- 5 Atmospheric Science 193
- 6 Final Thoughts 215