Sources and Suggested Readings

Burroughs, William J., Bob Crowder, Ted Robertson, Eleanor Vallier-Talbot, and Richard Whitaker, 1996: Weather, a Nature Company Guide, Time-Life Books, Sydney, Australia, 288 pp.

Frisinger, H. Howard, 1977: The History of Meteorology: to 1800, Science History Publications, New York, 148 pp.

Fung, Inez Y., 1996: Charney, Jule Gregory. In Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, edited by Stephen H. Schneider, Oxford University Press, New York, vol. 1, pp. 109-111.

Goldstine, Herman H., 1980: The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 378 pp.

Lutgens, Frederick K., and Edward J. Tarbuck, 1998: Weather analysis and forecasting. In The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology, seventh edition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, pp. 278-302.

Monmonier, Mark, 1999: Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 309 pp.

Moran, Joseph M., and Michael D. Morgan, 1994: Weather analysis and forecasting. In Meteorology: The Atmosphere and Science of Weather, fifth edition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, pp. 374-401.

Parkinson, Claire L., 1985: Breakthroughs: A Chronology of Great Achievements in Science and Mathematics, 1200-1930, G. K. Hall, Boston, 576 pp.

Ryan, Robert T., 1982: The weather is changing... or meteorologists and broadcasters, the twain meet, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 63, No. 3 (March 1982), p. 308.

Shuman, Frederick G., 1989: History of numerical weather prediction at the National Meteorological Center, Weather and Forecasting, vol. 4, pp. 286-296.

Weather Forecasting Through the Ages
Introduction
Early History
Towards Numerical Prediction
Modern Tools of the Trade
The Aqua Spacecraft
Benefits to Society
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