Description
First Published in 1970, A Century of Weather Service provides a comprehensive history of the birth and growth of the National Weather Service from 1870 to 1970 in America. It discusses important themes such as coping with disaster; American weather pioneers; a military weather service; The United States Weather Bureau; the air commerce age; weather in war; growth of a global weather service; calculated weather risks; the air we breathe; and one world of weather. The book closes with a chronology of the meteorological milestones of the American weather services from 1644 to 1970.
This is an important historical work for students of environmental geography and general readers interested in the topic.
Book Information
ISBN 9781032862835
Author Patrick Hughes
Format Hardback
Page Count 222
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
