Uncertain skies: Forecasting typhoons in Hong Kong ca. 1874-1906

• Main Author: WILLIAMSON, Fiona
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Forecasting; Meteorology; Typhoon; Uncertainty; Colonial Hong Kong; Asian Studies; Geography; History
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2570; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3827/viewcontent/Fiona_Williamson_forecasting_paper_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper explores the conceptualisation of «uncertainty» in late nineteenth- century meteorological thought. By investigating the story of meteorological forecasting in nineteenth and early twentieth century Hong Kong, it considers the changing ways in which forecasting was judged historically. In...