University of Chicago Press, 2005. — 331 p.
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 data collection, the fragile science became a public...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 277 pp. — ISBN: 978-0-521-88082-4 How did the global climate change issues emerge? The issue of human-induced global climate change became a major environmental concern during the twentieth century. In response to growing concern about human-induced global climate change, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed in...
Brandeis University Press, 2023. — 144 p. A historian offers a unique look at the pandemic, climate change, and the human versus nonhuman. Climate change represents a deep conundrum for humans. It is difficult for humans to give up the unequal and yet accelerating pursuit of a good life based on an insatiable appetite for energy sourced mainly from fossil fuel. But the same...
Wiley-ISTE, 2021. — 348 p. — ISBN 978-1-78630-717-0. The discovery, in the middle of the 17th century, of both the weight of air and the law governing its elasticity transformed the status of the atmosphere from that of a purely mathematical object to that of a complex and highly variable physical system. In the context of rapidly intensifying experimentation and observation,...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 464 pp. Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites. Extending the history of...
Springer, 2016. — 268 p. — ISBN: 3319274597. This book contains texts by the Nobel laureate Paul J. Crutzen who is best known for his research on ozone depletion. It comprises Crutzen’s autobiography, several pictures documenting important stages of his life, and his most important scientific publications. The Dutch atmospheric chemist is one of the world’s most cited...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 280 p. In Masters of Uncertainity, Phaedra Daipha offers a new framework for understanding decision-making practice after spending years immersed in a northeastern office of the National Weather Service. Arguing that forecasters have made a virtue of the unpredictability of the weather, Daipha shows how they enlist an onmivorous...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 194 p.
This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century. Based on primary and archival sources, the book is filled with interesting perspectives on what people have understood, experienced, and feared about the...
University of Chicago Press, 2007. — 284 pp. Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the eighteenth century from the systematic recording of the weather, and how it was...
Duke University Press, 2023. — 264 p. In Immeasurable Weather Sara J. Grossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States. She draws on an extensive archive of historical and meteorological data spanning two centuries to show how American scientific institutions used information about the weather...
MIT Press, 2008. — 328 pp. For much of the first half of the twentieth century, meteorology was more art than science, dependent on an individual forecaster's lifetime of local experience. In Weather by the Numbers , Kristine Harper tells the story of the transformation of meteorology from a "guessing science" into a sophisticated scientific discipline based on physics and...
University of Washington Press, 2017. — 380 p. This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and international declarations. Far more than just a compendium of source materials, the book uses these documents as a way to think about...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 228 p. The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages. Exploring how scientifically-based meteorology spread and flourished from c.700–c.1600, this study reveals the dramatic changes in forecasting and how the new science of 'astro-meteorology' developed. Both narrower and more practical in its...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 256 p. — (Histories of Economic Life) From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate. Uncovering this history, Desert Edens looks at how arid environments and an increasing anxiety about...
Penguin Press, 2022. — 336 p. From a writer and expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant, big-picture reckoning with our shocking failure to address climate change. Fire and Flood focuses on the malign power of key business interests, arguing that those same interests could flip the story very quickly—if they can get ahead of a...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 290 pp. Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953) dreamt that scientific weather prediction would one day become a practical reality. Before his ideas could bear fruit several advances were needed: better understanding of the dynamics of the atmosphere; stable computational algorithms to integrate the equations; regular observations of the free...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 290 p. — ISBN: 978-0521857291. Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953) dreamt that scientific weather prediction would one day become a practical reality. Before his ideas could bear fruit several advances were needed: better understanding of the dynamics of the atmosphere; stable computational algorithms to integrate the equations; regular...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. — 360 p. As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values, which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade. Weather, Climate, and...
Springer, 2020. — 437 p. — (Springer Geophysics). — ISBN: 978-3-030-21717-4. Геодезический Анализ Временного ряда в Науках о Земле. This book provides an essential appraisal of the recent advances in technologies, mathematical models and computational software used by those working with geodetic data. It explains the latest methods in processing and analyzing geodetic time...
New York; London: Academic Press, 1995. — 264 p. — (International Geophysics Series, 1995, Volume 60). Recording weather observations, explaining the action of the atmosphere, and predicting wind and rain are all ancient practices. The Babylonians did all three some 3000 years ago. The Greeks kept records of wind direction from the time of Meton (ca. 430 B.C.), had a...
3rd Edition. — New York, USA: Sterling, 2018. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4549-3245-1. Colorful and captivating, Weather: An Illustrated History hopscotches through 100 meteorological milestones and insights, from prehistory to today’s headlines and tomorrow’s forecasts. Bite-sized narratives, accompanied by exciting illustrations, touch on such varied topics as Earth's first...
Notable Scientists, 2003. — 273 pages. Clearly written and well organized and aim to include male and female contributors in their fields. The authors have included 115 scientists from varied educational and economic backgrounds, many countries, and different time periods. Arrangement is alphabetical by last name, with most entries one or two pages long. Introducing each essay...
London - New York: Routledge, 2003. — 271 р.
Sciences of Antiquity is a series designed to cover the subject-matter of what we call science. The volumes discuss how the ancients saw, interpreted and handled the natural world, from the elements to the most complex of living things. Their discussions on these matters formed a resource for those who later worked on the same...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 130 p. Aristotle’s Meteorologica concentrates on the meteorological aspects of Aristotle’s work published as Meteorologica books A-D, and on how they compare now with our understanding of meteorology and climate change. In other words, how well did Aristotle fair when he tried to explain weather 2,300 years ago when there was only logic, eye observation,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 278 pp. Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the...
Harvard University Press, 2003. — 228 p. In 2001, an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last two millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion—by way of unexpected twists...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 651 p. — ISBN10: 1137430192, 13 978-1137430199. This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies. Bringing together dozens of international specialists from the sciences and humanities, this volume describes the methods, sources, and major findings of historical...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 738 p. — ISBN10: 1137430192, 13 978-1137430199. This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies. Bringing together dozens of international specialists from the sciences and humanities, this volume describes the methods, sources, and major findings of historical...
Springer, 2006. — 270 pp. — ISBN: 978-0387-26928-3 This book provides an overview of the early years of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, and reviews the work of the institute over the past 30 years, describing along the way the European approach to medium-range weather forecasting. Its combination of historical view and scientific insight is unique. The...
СПб.: Гидрометеоиздат, 1997. — 363 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга открывает 3-томную серию "Очерки по истории гидрометеорологической службы России. В первом томе рассматриваются узловые события развития русской геофизики, начиная с древнейших времен до конца 19 века. Особое внимание уделено эпохе становления регулярных инструментальных метеорологических наблюдений. На...
СПБ: Гидрометеоиздат, 2005. — 404 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга является третьим, завершающим, томом трехтомной серии „Очерки по истории Гидрометеорологической службы России”. В третьем томе рассматриваются основные этапы послевоенного восстановления в значительной мере разрушенных в годы Великой Отечественной войны органов Гидрометслужбы и в особенности...
СПБ.: Гидрометеоиздат, 2005. — 406 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга является третьим, завершающим, томом трехтомной серии „Очерки по истории Гидрометеорологической службы России”. В третьем томе рассматриваются основные этапы послевоенного восстановления в значительной мере разрушенных в годы Великой Отечественной войны органов Гидрометслужбы и в особенности...
СПб.: Гидрометеоиздат. — 2005. — Кн.1 — 404 с. Кн.2 — 406 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга является третьим, завершающим, томом трехтомной серии „Очерки по истории Гидрометеорологической службы России”. В третьем томе рассматриваются основные этапы послевоенного восстановления в значительной мере разрушенных в годы Великой Отечественной войны органов Гидрометслужбы и в...
Долгопрудный: ФГБУ Центральная аэрологическая обсерватория, 2011. — 130 с. ЦАО создавалась как научно-методический и как научно-исследовательский центр в области аэрологии. Сегодня Центральная аэрологическая обсерватория является одним из ведущих научно-исследовательских и научно-методических учреждений Федеральной службы России по гидрометеорологии и охране окружающей среды...
Монография. — Москва: РАН, 2020. — 728 с. Книга освещает 85-летнию историю Эльбрусской Комплексной экспедиции АН СССР на Эльбрус (ЭЛЭ), на базе которой в 1961 г. был создан Высокогорный геофизический институт АН СССР и Госкомгидромета (ВГИ). Автор настоящей книги — ученый с широко известным в стране и за рубежом именем, старейший ветеран Гидрометслужбы страны, Герой...
СПб.: Нестор-История, 2011. — 132 с.
Настоящая книга посвящена истории астрономической теории изменений климата и самому Милутину Миланковичу, который в первой половине XX в. начертил кривую распределения солнечной радиации по поверхности Земли за прошедший миллион лет, создал математическую климатологию и в некотором смысле преобразовал науки о Земле. Миланкович превратил...
СПб.: Нестор-История, 2011. — 132 с.
Настоящая книга посвящена истории астрономической теории изменений климата и самому Милутину Миланковичу, который в первой половине XX в. начертил кривую распределения солнечной радиации по поверхности Земли за прошедший миллион лет, создал математическую климатологию и в некотором смысле преобразовал науки о Земле. Миланкович превратил...
СПб.: Типография Императорской Академии наук, 1899. — 414 с.: ил. История — от момента создания до конца 19 века — Главной геофизическая обсерватория имени А. И. Воейкова, написанная Михаилом Александровичем Рыкачёвым, возглавлявшим Главную физическую обсерваторию в 1896—1913 годах. Оглавление . Состояние метеорологической части в России до конца первой четверти текущего...
М.: МАКС Пресс, 2014. — 232 с. — ISBN: 978-5-317-04860-0. «Метеорология в лицах» подготовлена к 70-летнему юбилею кафедры метеорологии и климатологии географического факультета Московского государственного университета. Книга написана в виде интервью с различными людьми, которые так или иначе имеют отношение к кафедре метеорологии и климатологии, к науке о погоде и климате, к...
СПб.: Книгоиздательство П.П.Сойкина, 1910. — 528 с. "Атмосфера оживляет Землю. Океаны, моря, реки, ручьи, леса, растения, животные, человек - всё живёт в атмосфере и благодаря ей". В переводе К.К.Толстого. Орфография старая. Фундаментальный труд известного популяризатора науки. Книга богато иллюстрирована гравюрами и рисунками, великолепный поэтичный язык. Редкие факты из...
СПб.: Книгоиздательство П.П.Сойкина, 1910. — 528 с. "Атмосфера оживляет Землю. Океаны, моря, реки, ручьи, леса, растения, животные, человек - всё живёт в атмосфере и благодаря ей". В переводе К.К.Толстого. Орфография старая. Введение. Наша планета и оживляющая её жидкость. Земной шар. Атмосферная оболочка. Высота атмосферы. Вес земной атмосферы. Химический состав воздуха. Роль...
Ленинград: Гидрометеорологическое издательство, 1948. — 351 с. Книга систематизированно излагает фактический материал по развитию представлений, методов исследования и основных научных теорий в области познания человеком явлений, свойств и законов воздушной оболочки земли — атмосферы, начиная с глубокой древности и до нашего времени. Книга рассчитана на специалистов...
Мурманск: Нордмет, 2008. — 332 с. Основу книги составляет переписка Главной физической обсерватории с наблюдателями метеорологических станций Кольского края. Рапорты и письма доносят до нас из далекого прошлого, как происходило становление и развитие метеорологии. Они содержат историю развития Мурмана, Кольского полуострова, хранят грамматику и стиль письма того времени,...
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