Climate in the age of empire : weather observers in colonial Canada /

Investigates the work of early Canadian weather observers who were schooled and working in the scientific tradition inherited from Europe, the scientific community they built, and their attitudes toward climate change.--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Slonosky, Victoria C., 1972- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: American Meteorological Society
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, Massachusetts : American Meteorological Society, [2018]
Temas:
Meteorological Service of Canada > History.
Meteorological Service of Canada.
Meteorology > Canada > History.
Meteorology > Canada > Observations.
Meteorology > Canada.
Meteorologists > Canada.
Climatic changes > Canada.
Météorologie > Canada > Histoire.
Météorologie > Canada > Observations.
Météorologie > Canada.
Météorologistes > Canada.
Climat > Changements > Canada.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology.
Climatic changes.
Meteorologists.
Meteorology.
Canada > History.
Canada > Histoire.
Canada.
Electronic books.
History.
Observations.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Territory, networks, and tools
  • Dr. Jean-François Gaultier: New France's climatologist
  • Clearing and cultivation: eighteenth-century climate improvement
  • British-American weather observers to 1830
  • McCord and the Montreal Natural History Society
  • Nineteenth-century scientists question climate amelioration
  • Meteorology and the military
  • The magnetic crusade and the founding of the Toronto Observatory
  • Medical meteorology
  • The establishment of the Meteorological Service of Canada
  • The McGill Observatory and the professionalization of meteorology
  • What do three centuries of observations tell us?
  • Extraordinary seasons
  • Glossary.

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