Hawaiʻi's Mauna Loa Observatory : fifty years of monitoring the atmosphere / Forrest M. Mims III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mims, Forrest M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mauna Loa Observatory--History.

Mauna Loa Observatory.

Meteorological stations--Hawaii--History.

Meteorological stations.

History.

Hawaii.

Physical Description:

xiv, 461 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2012]

Summary:

The Mauna Loa Observatory in 2007 (front) and 2005 (back). Photos by Forrest M. Minis III. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Earth's Biggest Mountain 1

2 The First Scientific Expeditions (1794, 1825, and 1834) 15

3 The United States Exploring Expedition (1840-1841) 27

4 Robert Simpson's Dream: The Mauna Loa Summit Observatory (1951-1954) 49

5 Founding of the Slope Unit of the Mauna Loa Observatory (1955-1956) 71

6 Startup: The First Science at MLO (1956-1957) 91

7 The International Geophysical Year (1958-1959) 127

8 Boom and Bust (1960-1963) 151

9 Survival Mode and Making History (1964-1965) 177

10 The Second Decade (1966-1975) 203

11 The Third Decade (1976-1985) 244

12 The Fourth Decade (1986-1995) 285

13 The Fifth Decade (1996-2005) 327

14 The Mauna Loa Observatory Today 362

15 The Next Fifty Years 399.

Notes:

"A latitude 20 book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824834319

0824834313

OCLC:

752471687