Storm Watchers - The Turbulent History of Weather Prediction from Franklin’s Kite to El Niño
Year: 2002 Language: english Author: John D. Cox Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN: 0-471-38108-X Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 258 Description: Weather forecasting has become a kind of appliance science, part of the electric rhythm of life, absorbed and applied without a second thought to the mundane questions of personal comfort and convenience. How cold will it be today? Or tomorrow? Or how hot? Will I need a sweater? An umbrella? A hat? Depending on the medium, its presentation can be brief and stylized to the point of wordless icons, or extended and elaborate, colorfully portrayed with animated and entertaining visual effects. These productions relate knowledge that is different from the rest of the daily information stream. This is the future, the telling of atmospheric motions and events that have not happened yet. Weather forecasting is the product of meteorological science that comes from the edge of our most advanced capability, quantifying circumstances of turbulence and chaos that are at the limits of probability. It is the numerical modeling output of some of the most powerful computers on the planet. This knowledge of the future is costly and difficult to acquire. It is so costly, in fact, its raw material so extensive, its reach so global, and its processing so computationally demanding that only governments can provide it. Notwithstanding all of this artificial intelligence, the science of forecasting weather is a triumph of human intelligence—the work of people. While modern weather science is the work of many, it is founded on the work of a relative few. These are the stories of some of the men who discovered how the atmosphere works and how to foretell its behavior. Their science has saved and continues to save many lives. An ancient dream of accurately predicting weather has been fulfilled. The storm watchers deserve to be remembered, many of them as heroes.
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Storm Watchers - The Turbulent History of Weather Prediction from Franklin’s Kite to El Niño
Language: english
Author: John D. Cox
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
ISBN: 0-471-38108-X
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 258
Description: Weather forecasting has become a kind of appliance science, part of the electric rhythm of life, absorbed and applied without a second thought to the mundane questions of personal comfort and convenience. How cold will it be today? Or tomorrow? Or how hot? Will I need a sweater? An umbrella? A hat? Depending on the medium, its presentation can be brief and stylized to the point of wordless icons, or extended and elaborate, colorfully portrayed with animated and entertaining visual effects. These productions relate knowledge that is different from the rest of the daily information stream. This is the future, the telling of atmospheric motions and events
that have not happened yet.
Weather forecasting is the product of meteorological science that comes from the edge of our most advanced capability, quantifying circumstances of turbulence and chaos that are at the limits of probability. It is the numerical modeling output of some of the most powerful computers on the planet. This knowledge of the future is costly and difficult to acquire. It is so costly, in fact, its raw material so extensive, its reach so global, and its processing so computationally demanding that only governments can provide it.
Notwithstanding all of this artificial intelligence, the science of forecasting weather is a triumph of human intelligence—the work of people. While modern weather science is the work of many, it is founded on the work of a relative few. These are the stories of some of the men who discovered how the atmosphere works and how to foretell its behavior. Their science has saved and continues to save many lives. An ancient dream of accurately predicting weather has been fulfilled. The storm
watchers deserve to be remembered, many of them as heroes.
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