Book ID: CBB000039012

Appropriating the weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the construction of a modern meterology (1989)

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Friedman, Robert M. (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 1989
Physical Details: xx + 251 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Feldman, T.S. (1991) Review of "Appropriating the weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the construction of a modern meterology". American Historical Review (p. 133). unapi

Review Fleming, J.R. (1989) Review of "Appropriating the weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the construction of a modern meterology". Science (p. 1124). unapi

Review Kiehl, J.T. (1990) Review of "Appropriating the weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the construction of a modern meterology". Technology and Culture (pp. 888-89). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Fleming, James Rodger
Friedman, Robert M.
Harper, Kristine C.
Jewell, Ralph
Avilés, Lourdes B.
Ayan, Dursun
Journals
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari: Studies in Ottoman Science
Public Understanding of Science
Science and Education
Publishers
American Meteorological Society
MIT Press
Cambridge University Press
Academic Press
Johns Hopkins University
Olschki
Concepts
Meteorology
Weather forecasting
Climate and climatology
World War II
Atmosphere (Earth)
Biographies
People
Bjerknes, Vilhelm
Rossby, Carl-Gustav
Wexler, Harry
Petterssen, Sverre
Pierce, Charlie
Corti, Bonaventura
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
New York (U.S.)
China
Germany
Italy
Institutions
United States. Weather Bureau
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