{"id":363,"date":"2016-11-06T11:58:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T15:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/?p=363"},"modified":"2016-11-06T11:58:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T15:58:26","slug":"paoc-mit-seminar-12-noon-monday-november-21-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/2016\/11\/06\/paoc-mit-seminar-12-noon-monday-november-21-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"PAOC MIT seminar 12 noon Monday, November 21, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inventing Atmospheric Science:<br \/>\nGordian Knots and the Quest for Prevision<\/p>\n<p>James R. Fleming<\/p>\n<p>Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College<\/p>\n<p>Atmospheric researchers have long attempted to untie the Gordian Knot of meteorology\u2014that intractable and intertwined tangle of observational imprecision, theoretical uncertainties, and non-linear influences\u2014that, if unraveled, would provide perfect prevision of the weather for ten days, of seasonal conditions for next year, and of climatic conditions for a decade, a century, a millennium, or longer. This presentation, based on Inventing Atmospheric Science (The M.I.T. Press, 2016), examines the work of three interconnected generations of scientists and the influence of three families of transformative technologies in the first six decades of the twentieth century, from the dawn of applied fluid dynamics to the emergence, by 1960, of the interdisciplinary atmospheric sciences.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/paoc.mit.edu\/paoc\/events\/seminars\/seminars.htm<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-363\" data-postid=\"363\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-363 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inventing Atmospheric Science: Gordian Knots and the Quest for Prevision James R. Fleming Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College Atmospheric researchers have long attempted to untie the Gordian Knot of meteorology\u2014that intractable and intertwined tangle of observational imprecision, theoretical uncertainties, and non-linear influences\u2014that, if unraveled, would provide perfect prevision of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}