Report on Weather Telegraphy and Storm Warnings

Report on Weather Telegraphy and Storm Warnings
Author: Royal Society Meteorological Committee
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2018-02-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780656013074

Excerpt from Report on Weather Telegraphy and Storm Warnings: Presented to the Meteorological Congress at Vienna, by a Committee Appointed at the Leipzig Conference In the case of storms and imminent danger foreseen, extra reports may be given and received, and extended to other places besides those indicated, and especially to the Semaphores, in order that they may exhibit the signals, as we shall presently see. Besides the observations from the Italian stations above-mentioned, the central office also receives by telegraph the daily bulletin from Paris, a meteorological report from Vienna, and one from Malta. On its part, it sends (always by telegraph) the meteorological bulletin to Malta, the same as to the other stations of the kingdom, and a special report to Paris and Vienna. It is as provisional director of the Maritime Meteorological Service of the kingdom of Italy that the undersigned replies to the questions proposed by the sub-committee elected by the Meteorological Conference held at Leipzig in the month of August 1872, and which were forwarded to the undersigned by the Observatory of Utrecht, with a letter dated lst May 1873. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910

Politics, Statistics and Weather Forecasting, 1840-1910
Author: Aitor Anduaga
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2019-07-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000145069

Weather forecasting is the most visible branch of meteorology and has its modern roots in the nineteenth century when scientists redefined meteorology in the way weather forecasts were made, developing maps of isobars, or lines of equal atmospheric pressure, as the main forecasting tool. This book is the history of how weather forecasting was moulded and modelled by the processes of nation-state building and statistics in the Western world.

Predicting the Weather

Predicting the Weather
Author: Katharine Anderson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226019705

Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 in an effort to foster a modern science of the weather. But as the office turned to prediction rather than data collection, the fragile science became a public spectacle, with its forecasts open to daily scrutiny in the newspapers. And meteorology came to assume a pivotal role in debates about the responsibility of scientists and the authority of science. Studying meteorology as a means to examine the historical identity of prediction, Katharine Anderson offers here an engrossing account of forecasting that analyzes scientific practice and ideas about evidence, the organization of science in public life, and the articulation of scientific values in Victorian culture. In Predicting the Weather, Anderson grapples with fundamental questions about the function, intelligibility, and boundaries of scientific work while exposing the public expectations that shaped the practice of science during this period. A cogent analysis of the remarkable history of weather forecasting in Victorian Britain, Predicting the Weather will be essential reading for scholars interested in the public dimensions of science.