The weather machine : a journey inside the forecast

Summary: This book chronicles Andrew Blum's exploration of the world of weather and the people who watch it. Blum visits some of the world's most far-off weather stations and watches the newest satellites blast off. He explores the dogged efforts of computational forecasters to create a living supercomputer model of the atmosphere by dialing in tens of thousands of constantly shifting variables. And he dives inside the weather app on your phone to see how the cloud in the sky becomes the cloud on your screen.

Record details

ISBN: 9781443438599
Physical Description: print
regular print
x, 207 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019].
Copyright: ©2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Calculation. Calculating the weather ; The forecast factories -- Observation. The weather on earth ; Looking down ; Going around ; Blasting off -- Simulation. The mountaintop ; The euro ; The app ; The good forecast -- Preservation. The weather diplomats.