Between 1800 and 1870 meteorology emerged as both a legitimate science and a government service in America. Challenging the widely held assumption that meteorol

The objectives of the American Meteorological Society are "the development and dissemination of knowledge of meteorology in all its phases and applications, and

Weather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In Air Apparent Mark Monmonier traces debates among scientis