Ground truth: Verification games in operational meteorology

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-23

  Fine, Gary Alan ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Russell Sage Foundation   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Meteorology; Science; Sociology of knowledge; Truth; Verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644969031     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241605282241     Document Type: Review

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