First for Eloquent Science

Matt Bunkers has just published a paper in the National Weather Association’s Journal of Operational Meteorology.

The acknowledgements read:
“The book, Eloquent Science, was an in- dispensable resource during the many revisions of this paper.” This is the first time I am aware of an acknowledgement in a journal article.

In an email, Matt told me,

“I believe it is the best writing I have ever done, which is due in large part to the help from your book Eloquent Science. I used your book throughout the various stages of writing, and actually re-read the entire book during the process. I checked for the ambiguous and redundant phrases, read the paper backwards, and took all of the other great advice. As a result, I noted your book in the acknowledgments; that is probably a first. After going through this process I actually got to the point were I was changing things back and forth, to which you state in your book that it is time to “submit the damn thing.”

Thanks, Matt!

Bunkers, M. J., D. A. Barber, R. L. Thompson, R. Edwards, and J. Garner, 2014: Choosing a universal mean wind for supercell motion prediction. J. Operational Meteor., 2 (11), 115–129.