The ICHM publishes an annual journal, History of Meteorology. Our members publish their scholarship in a wide range of forums and media. Here are links to some of those publications.
Recent Publications on History of Meteorology
Inigo Jones: The Weather Prophet, by Tim Sherratt. Metarch Papers No. 16, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, 2007, 60pp, illustrated. Learn More.
Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate, edited by James Rodger Fleming, Vlad Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen (Science History Publications/USA, 2006).
The Callendar Effect: The Life and Work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964), the Scientist Who Established the Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change by James Rodger Fleming (AMS Books, 2006). Winner of the 2007 EXCEL Gold Award from the Society of National Association Publishers.
FROM BEAUFORT TO BJERKNES AND BEYOND: Critical Perspectives on Observing, Analyzing, and Predicting Weather and Climate, edited by Stefan Emeis and Cornelia Lüdecke. Algorismus 52 (2005). Order direct from the publisher.
Books of interest published 2004-2005
Anderson, Katharine. Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Fleming, James Rodger. Historical Perspectives on Climate Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Paperback.
Harper, Kristine. Hurricane Andrew. New York: Facts On File, 2005.
McNally, Louis K., III. "The Weather of 1785: An interdisciplinary approach to meteorological reconstruction using forensic synoptic analysis." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maine&emdash;Orono, 2004.
Roy, Marjory. The Weathermen of Ben Nevis, 1883-1904. Royal Meteorological Society, 2004.
Zhang, De'er. A compendium of Chinese meteorological records of the last 3,000 years, 4 vols. (Chinese with English introduction). Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Publishing House, 2004. 3666 p.
Albert, King of the Belgians. An International Seminar to Celebrate the Brussels Maritime Conference of 1853, an historical perspective of operational marine meteorology and oceanography: proceedings. Geneva: World Meteorological Organization, 2004.
Behringer, Wolfgang, Harmut Lehmann, and Christian Pfister. Kulturelle Konsequenzen der "Kleinen Eiszeit." Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005.
Boia, Lucian. The weather in the imagination. London: Reaktion, 2005 .
Corbin, Alain. Le ciel et la mer. Paris: Bayard, 2005.
Dege, Wilhelm and William Barr. War North of 80: The last German Arctic weather station of World War II. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004.
Fagan, Brian M. The Long Summer: How climate changed civilization. London: Granta, 2004.
Gramola, Benito and R. Rizzi, ed. Giuseppe Toaldo: Meteorologia e agricoltura. Atti della Tornata esterna, Molvena, 12 maggio 2002. Vicenza: Accademia Olimpica, 2004.
Gribbin, John R. and Mary Gribbin. FitzRoy: The remarkable story of Darwin's captain and the invention of the weather forecast. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Halford, Pauline. Storm warning: The origins of the weather forecast. Stroud: Sutton, 2005.
Tempêtes sur la forêt française: XVIe-XXE siècle, Andrée Corvol, comp. Paris: Harmattan, 2005.
U.S. Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit: A selected bibliography. Fiolek, Anna, Jimmie Trigg and Eugenia Kalnay, comp. Silver Spring, Md.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, 2004.