SECTION L (HISTORICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES)

Section K-Section L

Historical Research in the Atmospheric Sciences

JULY 2004 AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | T his paper originated from a talk given at the sixth annual meeting of the Atmospheric Science Librarians International, at the 2003 American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting, on 13 February 2003. Because one of the themes of the meeting was the history of the atmospheric sciences, I was asked to give a talk about doing research on the his...

Testing times: regularities in the historical sciences.

The historical sciences, such as geology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology, appear to have no means to test hypotheses. However, on closer examination, reasoning in the historical sciences relies upon regularities, regularities that can be tested. I outline the role of regularities in the historical sciences, and in the process, blur the distinction between the historical sciences and the ...

State Water Survey Division ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SECTION

The effect of aircraft contrails on surface climate was assessed by first determining the density of jet traffic across a ten state area of the Upper Midwest, and comparing that distribution with observed changes of various meteorological parameters over the past 50 years, both within and outside of the principal contrail areas. Commercial jet traffic density was found to be greatest in 1979 al...

State Water Survey Division ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SECTION

The effect of aircraft contrails on surface climate was assessed by first determining the density of jet traffic across a ten state area of the Upper Midwest, and comparing that distribution with observed changes of various meteorological parameters over the past 50 years, both within and outside of the principal contrail areas. Commercial jet traffic density was found to be greatest in 1979 al...