The Weather Factor

From the colonists' first encounter with the American climate to the launch of the first weather satellite in space, weather has influenced battles, wars, elections, sports events, balloon launches, airship flights, and many other history-making events. Want to know what part the weather played in ending the Siege in Yorktown? Why President Harrison caught his fatal cold on Inauguration Day? Which was the worst-ever Saturday for football all across the country? David Ludlum, America's acknowledged dean of weather history, answers these questions and describes many more historical weather events and their consequences.

Science & Math

Ludlum, David McWilliams

Earth Sciences

American Meteorological Society

In this proceeding there are paperbounds presented by the participants at a meeting held in Beijing, China, 20-24 March 1984, including those on the following important aspects relating to mountain meteorology: the field observation, the dynamic and thermal effects of the mountains on the general circulation, the results obtained through the numerical models with the large-scale topography, and the circulation systems on the Plateau.

Proceedings of International Symposium of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau & Mountain Meteorology, March 20-24, 1984, Beijing, China

Yigang, Xu

This volume had its origin in a workshop held at Park City, Utah, 23-25 May 1984. The objective of the workshop was to provide an opportunity for cloud physicists to assess the status of knowledge and understanding about the physics of precipitation formation in clouds and the response of clouds to glaciogenic seeding. All paperbounds were by invitation. Half of the time was given to discussion and debate sparked by 4 major review paperbounds and 14 short reports. Restriction of the workshop to scientific aspects of glaciogenic seeding for precipitation enhancement was intentional.

Precipitation Enhancement: A Scientific Challenge (Volume 21) (Meteorological Monographs)

Braham Jr., Roscoe R.

In 1984, the American Meteorological Society, the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cosponsored the Intensive Course on Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting, held in Boulder, Colorado. This volume is an edited version of the lectures, including complete illustrations and extensive bibliographic references. The 31 chapters consider all aspects of mesoscale meteorology. After an introduction that discusses mesoscale classifications and typical forecast problems, the volume is organized in sections on observing techniques and systems, internally generated circulations, mesoscale convective systems, externally forced circulations, modeling, and short-range forecasting techniques and technology. As a textbook of mesoscale meteorology it will serve both practicing and student meteorologists.

Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting

Ray, Peter S.

This volume is concerned with the physics and the application of air-pollution modeling on scales up to about 50 km. Its eight chapters, comprising the diverse points of view of seven authors, remain substantially in their original, lecture-note form. The result is not a smoothly flowing monograph but instead a richly textured, lively collection of the seasoned thoughts and perspectives of experienced researchers and practitioners.

Lectures on Air Pollution Modeling

Wyngaard, John C.

Venkatram, Akula

This fully illustrated volume covers the history of radar meteorology, deals with the issues in the field from both the operational and the scientific viewpoint, and looks ahead to future issues and how they will affect the current atmosphere. With over 200 contributors, the volume is a product of the entire community and represents an unprecedented compendium of knowledge in the field.

Radar in Meteorology: Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary Radar Meteorology Conference

Atlas, David

In this enlightening and compelling history of combat from World War II to the Vietnam conflict, author John F. Fuller describes the adventure that was the Air Weather Service and introduces its courageous family of forecasters who provided vital weather support for the nation's armed forces and made notable contributions of the field of meteorology. Learn about the controversial events leading up to the pressure-packed D-Day forecast and the invasion forecasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and discover how weather support "can be the margin between the victor and the vanquished."

Thor's Legions: Weather Support to the U. S. Air Force and Army, 1937-1987 (Historical Monographs)

Religion & Spirituality

Fuller, John F.

New Age & Spirituality

Describes the weather that greeted early American colonists, and recounts how weather affected battles, election days, inaugurations, sports, and aviation throughout U.S. history

History

Americas

The past decade has been characterized by remarkable advances in meteorological observation, computing techniques, and data-visualization technology. However, the benefit of these advances can only be fully realized with the introduction of a systematic, applied approach to meteorological education that allows well-established theoretical concepts to be applied to modernized observational and numerical datasets.This textbook links theoretical concepts to modern technology and facilitates the meaningful application of concepts, theories, and techniques using real data. As such, it will both serve those planning careers in meteorological research and weather prediction, and provide a template for the application of modern technology in a classroom and laboratory setting. Synoptic-dynamic meteorology, synoptically driven mesoscale phenomena, weather forecasting, and numerical weather prediction are covered in depth in this text, which is intended for undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the atmospheric sciences.

Midlatitude Synoptic Meteorology: Dynamics, Analysis, and Forecasting

Lackmann, Gary

The monograph is divided into six parts. Part I provides an overview of the problem, including descriptions of cumulus clouds and the effects of ensembles of cumulus clouds on mass, momentum, and vorticity distributions. A review of closure assumptions is also provided. A review of "classical" convection schemes in widespread use is provided in Part II. The special problems associated with the representation of convection in mesoscale models are discussed in Part III, along with descriptions of some of the commonly used mesoscale schemes. Part IV covers some of the problems associated with the representation of convection in climate models, while the parameterization of slantwise convection is the subject of Part V. The monograph concludes with a single paperbound describing some recent and very promising efforts to use explicit numerical simulations of ensembles of convective clouds to test cumulus representations.

The Representation of Cumulus Convection in Numerical Models (Meteorological Monographs,) (Volume 24)

Emanuel, Kerry

Raymond, David J.

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The Weather Factor

Proceedings of International Symposium of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau & Mountain Meteorology, March 20-24, 1984, Beijing, China

Precipitation Enhancement: A Scientific Challenge (Volume 21) (Meteorological Monographs)

Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting

Lectures on Air Pollution Modeling

Radar in Meteorology: Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary Radar Meteorology Conference

Thor's Legions: Weather Support to the U. S. Air Force and Army, 1937-1987 (Historical Monographs)

The Weather Factor

Midlatitude Synoptic Meteorology: Dynamics, Analysis, and Forecasting

The Representation of Cumulus Convection in Numerical Models (Meteorological Monographs,) (Volume 24)