DOI: 10.1002/wcc.442
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85005769311
论文题名: Helmut Landsberg and the evolution of 20th century American climatology: envisioning a climatological renaissance
作者: Henderson G ; D
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2017
卷: 8, 期: 2 语种: 英语
英文关键词: Military operations
; 20th century
; Professional life
; Public debate
; World war II
; Climatology
; biography
; climate change
; climatology
; post-war
; twentieth century
; United States
英文摘要: After World War II, German-American climatologist Helmut Landsberg sought to realize his war-time vision for an American ‘climatological renaissance.’ Given the dramatic degradation of European science during the war, he believed that the United States offered the best hope to strengthen and reformulate what he considered to be the stale tradition of conceiving climatology as a geographical discipline. Inhabiting high-level positions within the American geophysical establishment after the war, his primary goal was to develop the tools and resources to analyze and interpret the overwhelming amounts of data that had been amassed over the centuries while, simultaneously, making climatology relevant to American life. However, there were limits. As someone who had invested his professional life in making climatology a useful discipline, Landsberg grew increasingly concerned that public debates about climate threatened his vision for a climatological renaissance. During the last two decades of his life, he became fixated on maintaining his ideal that climatology was not a glamorous discipline, and objected vehemently to those who sought to counter what he considered to be its true character. WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e442. doi: 10.1002/wcc.442. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76185
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Center for Science Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Henderson G,D. Helmut Landsberg and the evolution of 20th century American climatology: envisioning a climatological renaissance[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2017-01-01,8(2)