Air Apparent
How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather

Read an excerpt on television weather maps and forecasting.
324 pages
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22 color plates, 4 halftones, 89 line drawings
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5-1/2 x 8-1/2
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© 1999
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Table of Contents

Contents
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
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
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