Displaying 1 of 1 1999 Format: Book Author: Monmonier, Mark S. Title: Air apparent : how meteorologists learned to map, predict, and dramatize weather / Mark Monmonier. Publisher, Date: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, ©1999. Description: xiv, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm Summary: Traces the development of the weather map and its ability to make the atmosphere visible and predictable, and examines the interaction and relationship between technology and weather forecasting. Subjects: Meteorology -- Charts, diagrams, etc. Weather forecasting -- Technique. Genre: Graphs. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Seeing and forecasting -- Seeing and understanding -- Weather by wire -- Looking up -- Looking ahead -- Downwind dangers -- Looking down -- Spreading the news -- Weather channels and web sites -- Hindsight as insight -- Managed myopia. Web Site: Table of contents Publisher description LCCN: 98025797 ISBN: 0226534227 9780226534220 0226534235 9780226534237 Other Number: 39210171 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 68330 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 551.63 Monmonie Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
