Century of Weather Service

<p>First Published in 1970 <i>A Century of Weather Service </i>provides a comprehensive history of the birth and growth of the National Weather Service from 1870 to 1970 in America. It discusses important themes such as coping with disaster; American weather pioneers; a military weather service; The United States Weather Bureau; the air commerce age; weather in war; growth of a global weather service; calculated weather risks; the air we breathe; and one world of weather. The book closes with a chronology of the meteorological milestones of the American weather services from 1644 to 1970.</p><p>This is an important historical work for students of environmental geography and general readers interested in the topic.</p>