Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Decision Making under Uncertainty 1
4. 1. The Weather Prediction Enterprise 24
5. 2. Working the Weather: A Shift in the Life of a Weather Forecaster 55
6. 3. Distilling Complexity: Atmospheric Indeterminacy and the Culture of Disciplined Improvisation 92
7. 4. Managing Risk: The Trials and Tribulations of Hazardous Weather Forecasting 112
8. 5. Anticipating the Future: Temporal Regimes of Meteorological Decision Making 138
9. 6. Whose Weather Is It Anyway? From the Production to the Consumption of Decisions 165
10. 7. Toward a Sociology of Decision Making 197
11. Acknowledgments 219
12. Notes 223
13. References Cited 239
14. Index 261