LEADER 02554nam 2200337z- 450 001 9910583582803321 005 20220715 010 $a1-4214-2927-6 035 $a(CKB)5460000000023666 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88806 035 $a(oapen)doab88806 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000023666 100 $a20202207d2008 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAtmospheric Science at NASA$eA History 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) 330 $aHonorable Mention, 2008 ASLI Choice Awards. Atmospheric Science Librarians InternationalThis book offers an informed and revealing account of NASA's involvement in the scientific understanding of the Earth's atmosphere. Since the nineteenth century, scientists have attempted to understand the complex processes of the Earth's atmosphere and the weather created within it. This effort has evolved with the development of new technologies-from the first instrument-equipped weather balloons to multibillion-dollar meteorological satellite and planetary science programs. Erik M. Conway chronicles the history of atmospheric science at NASA, tracing the story from its beginnings in 1958, the International Geophysical Year, through to the present, focusing on NASA's programs and research in meteorology, stratospheric ozone depletion, and planetary climates and global warming. But the story is not only a scientific one. NASA's researchers operated within an often politically contentious environment. Although environmental issues garnered strong public and political support in the 1970s, the following decades saw increased opposition to environmentalism as a threat to free market capitalism. Atmospheric Science at NASA critically examines this politically controversial science, dissecting the often convoluted roles, motives, and relationships of the various institutional actors involved-among them NASA, congressional appropriation committees, government weather and climate bureaus, and the military. 517 $aAtmospheric Science at NASA 606 $aHistory of engineering and technology$2bicssc 610 $aHistory of engineering & technology 615 7$aHistory of engineering and technology 700 $aConway$b Erik M$4auth$0927110 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583582803321 996 $aAtmospheric Science at NASA$92627708 997 $aUNINA