The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future /
In 1865 Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm warning system and "forecasts" would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2015.
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