Based largely on an International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology (ICDM) workshop, this timely volume, written by leading researchers in the field, covers a range of important research issues related to high-impact weather and extreme climate events. Dynamical linkages betwe…
"Studying meteorology as a means to examine the historical identity of prediction, Katharine Anderson offers here an account of forecasting that analyzes scientific practice and ideas about evidence, the organization of science in public life, and the articulation of scientific …
Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 in an effort to foster a modern science of the weather. But as the office turned to prediction rather than …
