Authors of the Storm - Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction

Zusammenfassung Offers an inside look at how meteorologists and forecasters predict the weather. Through field observation and interviews, this work shows that weather forecasts are often shaped as much by social and cultural factors inside local offices as they are by approaching cumulus clouds.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Alan Fine, Fine Gary Alan
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2007
• EAN: 9780226249520
• ISBN: 978-0-226-24952-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Meteorology & climatology, Meteorology and climatology