Relocating meteorology

Abstract

This themed issue of History of Meteorology grew out of a session at the annual conference of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco, 2016. The session, on ‘Historical geographies of environmental knowledge: science, space and power’, brought home to us how there’s an increasing momentum around efforts to view the histories of meteorology and climatology in geographical and spatial terms. In our introductory essay, ‘Relocating Meteorology’, we sketch out some of the broader contours of this move, and the rationale behind the development of this themed issue.