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Where do I find the history of meteorology ?
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Air Weather Service - a brief history (scroll down to History)
http://www.usaf.com/orgs/20.htm

Aircraft Operations Center history
http://www.aoc.noaa.gov/history.htm

Aristotle's Meteorology - full text translation of Aristotle's view of meteorology
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/meteorology.html

Arrhenius on global warming - the classic 1896 paper by Nobel prize-winning Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius relating the rise in carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning in the atmosphere to increasing global temperatures
http://web.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/ARRHENIUS.HTML

The Cooperative Weather Observer Program history
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/eax/coop/cpmhist.php

Daily historical weather events in the United States: a daily summary of historical weather events
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/wxhistory/gethistory.php

Franklin - Benjamin Franklin paper, Meteorological Imaginations and Conjectures, published in a Memoir of the Literary and Philosophic Society of  Manchester (1789) suggesting that prolonged volcanic eruptions in Iceland were affecting the climate of  Europe
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~volcano/Fr373p77.html

Hurricane Research Division history
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hrd_sub/beginning.html

International Commission on History of Meteorology - established at the 2001 International Congress of History of Science
http://www.meteohistory.org/

Military meteorology bibliography - works developed at the University of North Carolina
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/mil_hist_inst/w/weather.asc

National Weather Service history
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/pa/history/index.php

National Weather Service river forecasting - A short history
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/marfc/Science/history.html

Storm Prediction Center - a brief history
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/history/early.html

Tornado Forecasting: 50 Years of Service to the American People - from a joint page of Tinker Air Force Base and NOAA Storm Prediction Center
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/goldenanniversary/

United States Early Radio History by Thomas H. White - includes a special section about broadcasting weather information
http://EarlyRadioHistory.us

http://EarlyRadioHistory.us/1916impt.htm#safeguard  (a timeline for the use of wireless as a safeguard to life at sea)

Weather vanes - a brief history of weather vanes
http://www.denninger.com/history.htm

http://www.denninger.com/biblio.htm#Bibliography (bibliography of weather vanes)
 

 
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Date 8/7/2009

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