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Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
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Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather Paperback - 2000

by Mark Monmonier

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The author reveals how meteorologists learn to map, predict, and dramatize the weather, and takes a look at the history of meteorology and strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere forecasting disaster. Color photos and line drawings.

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Weather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In Air Apparent Mark Monmonier traces debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster, and discusses efforts to detect and control air pollution. Fascinating in its scope and detail, Air Apparent makes us take a second look at the weather map, an image that has been, and continues to be, central to our daily lives.

"Clever title, rewarding book. Monmonier . . . offers here a basic course in meteorology, which he presents gracefully by means of a history of weather maps." --Scientific American

"Mark Monmonier is onto a winner with Air Apparent. . . . It is good, accessible science and excellent history. . . . Read it." --Fred Pearce, New Scientist

"[Air Apparent] is a superb first reading for any backyard novice of weather . . . but even the veteran forecaster or researcher will find it engaging and, in some cases, enlightening." --Joe Venuti, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

"Monmonier is solid enough in his discussion of geographic and meteorological information to satisfy the experienced weather watcher. But even if this information were not presented in such a lively and engaging manner, it would still hook most any reader who checks the weather map every morning or who sits happily entranced through a full cycle of forecasts on the Weather Channel."--Michael Kennedy, Boston Globe

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Like the flashing red signals at railroad crossings, weather maps regularly announce the imminent arrival of an unstoppable threat with severe consequences for those who ignore the warning.

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In Air Apparent, Mark Monmonier traces debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster, and discusses efforts to detect and control air pollution. Fascinating in its scope and detail, Air Apparent makes us take a second look at the weather map, an image that has been, and continues to be, central to our daily lives.

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  • Title Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
  • Author Mark Monmonier
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd prt.
  • Pages 324
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chi
  • Publication date November 15, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780226534237 / 0226534235
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.48 x 0.84 in (21.51 x 13.92 x 2.13 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Meteorology - Charts, diagrams, etc, Weather forecasting - Technique
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98025797
  • Dewey Decimal Code 551.6

About the author

Mark Monmonier is distinguished professor of geography at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

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