Inventing atmospheric science : Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the foundations of modern meteorology

Inventing Atmospheric Science offers a century-long story about the ‘ocean of air’ that surrounds the earth. Told through the professional lives of three outstanding scientists, Bjerknes, Rossby, and Wexler, James Rodger Fleming’s book shows how weather research became atmospheric science, and in doing so reveals the possibilities and limits of scientific theories, practices, and instruments.