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Filtering by: Subject Statistical weather forecasting Degree Field History of Science Resource Type Dissertation

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:

meteorology was synonymous with subjective weather forecasting in the early twentieth century. Controlled by