Invisible in the Storm : : The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather /

Invisible in the Storm : : The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather / / John Norbury, Ian Roulstone.

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Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times--the use of mathematics in weather prediction. Although humans have tried to forecast weather for millennia, mathematical principles were used in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Roulstone, Ian,
Norbury, John,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 15 color illus. 76 halftones. 77 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prelude: New Beginnings
  • One. The Fabric of a Vision
  • Two. From Lore to Laws
  • Three. advances and adversity
  • Four. When the Wind Blows the Wind
  • Five. Constraining the Possibilities
  • Six. The Metamorphosis of Meteorology
  • Seven. Math Gets the Picture
  • Eight. Predicting in the Presence of Chaos
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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