Masters of Uncertainty : Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Decision Making under Uncertainty -- 1. The Weather Prediction Enterprise -- 2. Working the Weather: A Shift in the Life of a Weather Forecaster -- 3. Distilling Complexity: Atmospheric Indeterminacy and the Culture of Disciplined Improvisation -- 4. Managing Risk:...
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Decision Making under Uncertainty -- 1. The Weather Prediction Enterprise -- 2. Working the Weather: A Shift in the Life of a Weather Forecaster -- 3. Distilling Complexity: Atmospheric Indeterminacy and the Culture of Disciplined Improvisation -- 4. Managing Risk: The Trials and Tribulations of Hazardous Weather Forecasting -- 5. Anticipating the Future: Temporal Regimes of Meteorological Decision Making -- 6. Whose Weather Is It Anyway? From the Productionto the Consumption of Decisions -- 7. Toward a Sociology of Decision Making -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index. Ausführliche Beschreibung