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Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons
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HUMN 4325 - FROZEN! The Climate Crisis of 1816 and Its Lessons for Today
Luke Howard & Scientific Meteorology
HUMN 4325 - FROZEN! The Climate Crisis of 1816 and Its Lessons for Today
Syllabus
Types of Sources
How to Evaluate Sources
How to Cite Sources
Library Resources
Non-Library Resources
Tambora Eruption of 1815
British Exploration of the North Pole & Role of Barrow
The Effects of Tambora in China
Erie Canal
History of Weather Instrumentation
Ice Cores as Proxy Data
James Hutton & William Smith - History of Geology
Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
The Literary Response to "The Year Without a Summer"
Luke Howard & Scientific Meteorology
Tree Rings as Proxy Data
Unknown Volcanic Eruption of 1808-1809
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Luke Howard's Meteorological Works
The Climate of London, Vol. 1 (1818)
Through this work Howard became the first to describe scientifically the micro-climate of an urban area.
The Climate of London, Vol. 2 (1818)
The Climate of London, Vol. 1 (1833)
The updated and revised 1833 version, reformatted for the Internet.
Essay on the Modifications of Clouds (1803)
The first useful classification of cloud types, still in use today..
Seven Lectures on Meteorology (1837)
The first English textbook on meteorology.
Internet Resources on Luke Howard
Luke Howard's Intellectual Milieu
Published in the International Association for Urban Climate Newsletter (begins on p.6).
Luke Howard, Tim Oke, and the Study of Urban Climates
PDF download published in the conference proceedings of the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, American Meteorological Society (2009).
Suggested Reading
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
by
Richard Hamblyn
Call Number: 551.57 .H36 2001
ISBN: 0374177155
Publication Date: 2001
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