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Verner Suomi - The Life and Work of the Founder of Satellite Meteorology

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Verner Suomi - The Life and Work of the Founder of Satellite Meteorology

By Jean Phillips, W. Paul Menzel, Thomas H. Vonder Haar, Hans Moosmuller, Frederick B. House, Matthew G. Fearon, John Lewis

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About the book

As the space age got underway in the wake of Sputnik, one of the earliest areas of science to take advantage of the new observational opportunities it afforded was the study of climate and weather. This book tells the story of Finnish-American educator, inventor, and scientist Verner Suomi, who, in those early days of space science, brought his pragmatic engineering skills to bear on finding ways to use our new access to space to put observational instruments into orbit. In 1959, Suomi's work re...Show more

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9781944970222

Publisher

American Meteorological Society

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Verner Suomi - The Life and Work of the Founder of Satellite Meteorology

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Paperback

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