Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
Authors of the StormMeteorologists and the Culture of Prediction$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction

Gary Fine

Print publication date: 2007

Print ISBN-13: 9780226249520

Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226249544.001.0001

Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.chicago.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright University of Chicago Press, 2020. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in CHSO for personal use.date: 04 April 2020

Introduction

Introduction

Chapter:
(p.1) Introduction
Source:
Authors of the Storm
Author(s):

Gary Alan Fine

Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226249544.003.0001

This introductory chapter begins by outlining the broad theoretical issues addressed in this book, in an attempt to understand the conditions of work of weather forecasters. It then provides a background on the current study, followed by a discussion of the history and memory of weather. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

Keywords:   weather forecasters, weather forecasting, meteorology

Chicago Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.