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Filtering by: Creator Scheffer, Theodore C. (Theodore Comstock), 1904-2003 Committee Member Esbensen, Steven K.

Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

Creator:

Harper, Kristine C.

Abstract:

American meteorology was synonymous with subjective weather forecasting in the early twentieth century. Controlled by the Weather Bureau and with no academic programs of its own, the few hundred extant meteorologists had no standing in the scientific community. Until the American Meteorological Society was founded in 1919, meteorologists had no...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

June 2003 Doctor of Philosophy dissertation of Kristine C. Harper presented on April 25, 2003