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Article: WEATHER BY THE NUMBERS: THE GENESIS OF MODERN METEOROLOGY
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- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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- September 1, 2009
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WEATHER BY THE NUMBERS: THE GENESIS OF MODERN METEOROLOGY Kristine C. Harper, 2008, 308 pp., $40.00, hardbound, The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-08378-2
One of the most important developments in mod- ern meteorology was the successful experimen- tal prediction of the atmosphere by numerical process following the assembly of the first high-speed electronic computing machine in the 1940s. Kristine Harper chronicles that development in a thoroughly researched treatment of this monumental achieve- ment. She immediately captures our attention with her own version of "it was a dark and stormy night" as she describes the weather and the setting at that first meeting in January 1946 when the ...