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  Connecting Oceanic Asia: Production and Application of Meteorological Knowledge

  Vol. 12 (2025)

  Guest Editors: Xiao Liu and Zhenwu Qiu

  This special issue of History of Meteorology focuses on the theme “Connecting Oceanic Asia: Production and Application of Meteorological Knowledge.” It explores the multiple meteorological knowledge systems cultivated within the Asian oceanic region and their evolution through the lenses of meteorological history, intellectual history, and global history. The contributing articles reveal the significant impact on nation-building, production, daily life, disaster response, and more. The papers analyze distinct modes of observation and forecasting that emerged from long-term practices in East, Southeast, and South Asia—systems all deeply rooted in local contexts. The issue also examines how meteorological knowledge underwent translation, selection, adaptation, and reconstruction through cross-cultural encounters, resulting in hybrid forms of knowledge tailored to specific environments and uses. It situates Oceanic Asia within a broader interconnected framework, highlighting the substantial contributions of local wisdom to the development of modern global meteorology. In doing so, it also critically assesses the knowledge-power dynamics underlying the colonial establishment of institutionalized meteorological observation networks. While these networks served imperial interests, and often marginalized local knowledge, they also engaged with local knowledge and integrated it in complex ways. By bringing together these articles, this special issue aims to move beyond Western-centric narratives. It uncovers the multi-centered, multi-dimensional networks through which meteorological knowledge was generated, circulated, and applied in Oceanic Asia. This approach deepens our understanding of both regional characteristics and global connections, ultimately reconstructing the complex historical landscape of meteorological knowledge.

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  Vol. 11 (2022)

  Rolling peer-reviewed articles published in Volume 11, during 2022

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  Vol. 10 (2021)

  Rolling peer-reviewed articles published in Volume 10, during 2021

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  A Question of Scale: Making Meteorological Knowledge and Nation in Imperial Asia

  Vol. 9 (2020)

  This special issue of History of Meteorology explores processes of making, communicating, and embedding modern meteorological knowledge in late nineteenth and early twentieth century imperial Asia. Its focus is on the institutionalisation of meteorology in key nation-building activities such as developing agricultural services, synoptic mapping to predict storms, and participation in scientific organisations and initiatives. Collectively, the essays explore the intersection of local, regional, and international scales and processes in generating new forms of state-sponsored meteorological practices and institutions, though complex multi-layered networks involving different actors and modes of information flow across multiple scales. In so doing, they reveal the dynamism and mobility of people, objects, inscriptions, information, careers, ways of knowing, and so on across space and place. They build from the paradigm that mastering the means of understanding and—significantly—making use of the weather in Asia involved working with manifold modes of meteorological knowledge drawn from multiple origins.

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  Vol. 8 (2017)

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  Vol. 7 (2015)

• Volume 6

  Vol. 6 (2014)

• Volume 5

  Vol. 5 (2009)

• Volume 4

  Vol. 4 (2008)

• Volume 3

  Vol. 3 (2006)

• Volume 2

  Vol. 2 (2005)

• Volume 1

  Vol. 1 (2004)