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Author Fine, Gary Alan

Title Authors of the storm : meteorologists and the culture of prediction / Gary Alan Fine
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 294 pages)
Contents On the floor -- A cult of "science" -- Futurework -- Writing on the winds -- Ground truth -- A public science -- Weather wise
Summary Whether it is used as an icebreaker in conversation or as the subject of serious inquiry, "the weather" is one of the few subjects that everyone talks about. This title offers a look at how meteorologists and forecasters predict the weather. It shows that weather forecasts are also shaped by social and cultural factors inside local offices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Meteorologists -- Psychology
Weather forecasting -- Methodology
Meteorology -- Social aspects
NATURE -- Weather.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology.
Meteorology -- Social aspects
Weather forecasting -- Methodology
Soziologie
Wettervorhersage
Methode
Psychologie
Meteorologie.
Weersverwachtingen.
Sociologische aspecten.
Culturele aspecten.
Meteorologie -- Gesellschaft.
Wetterprognose -- Gesellschaft.
Meteorologe -- Psychologie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226249544
0226249549