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Informationen zum Autor Malcolm Walker was an academic at Cardiff University from 1967 to 1998, first as a Lecturer, then, from 1983, as Senior Lecturer and, from 1996, Deputy Head of the Department of Maritime Studies and International Transport. He was Education Resources Manager of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1998 to 2007. He is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and a Member of the American Meteorological Society. He co-authored The Ocean-Atmosphere System (with A. H. Perry, 1977). He chaired the Royal Meteorological Society's History Group from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2007 to the present. He was awarded the Group's Jehuda Neumann Memorial Prize in 2001 and the Royal Meteorological Society's Outstanding Service Award in 2007. Since 1980 he has had a strong scholarly interest in the history of ideas in meteorology and physical oceanography and the people behind those ideas. He has published numerous articles and lectured many times on this subject. Klappentext This is a history of the UK's national meteorological service for meteorologists, atmospheric scientists, historians of science, and amateur meteorologists. Zusammenfassung The book tells the story of the UK's national meteorological service from its formation in 1854 to its present position as a scientific and technological institution of national and international importance. It will be of great interest to meteorologists! atmospheric scientists! historians of science and amateur meteorologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Seeds are sown; 2. Statistics and storms; 3. Inquiry and criticism; 4. The fight over forecasts; 5. Squalls and settled spells; 6. The emergence of science; 7. A decade of change; 8. The Great War; 9. The inter-war period; 10. The clouds of war; 11. Aftermath of war to forecasting by numbers; 12. Global meteorology; 13. Winds of change.
