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Mark Monmonier

Air Apparent

How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather

324 pages, 22 color plates, 4 halftones, 89 line drawings  5-1/2 x 8-1/2  © 1999

Cloth $27.50

ISBN: 9780226534220   Published April 1999

Paper $19.00

ISBN: 9780226534237   Published November 2000

Related links: Read an excerpt on television weather maps and forecasting.

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Seeing and Forecasting
2. Seeing and Understanding
3. Weather by Wire
4. Looking Up
5. Looking Ahead
6. Downwind Dangers
7. Looking Down
8. Looking Around
9. Spreading the News
10. Weather Channels and Web Sites
11. Hindsight As Insight
12. Managed Myopia
Appendix: Web-site Addresses
Notes
Index
Subjects



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