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the history and science of hurricanes

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the history and science of hurricanes

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Table of Contents

Kamikaze
Anatomy of a meteorological monster
Huracan
The tropical hothouse
Columbus's hurricane
The tropical downpour
France gives up La Floride, 1565
The trade winds
The tempest
Nature's steam engine
The hurricanes of 1780
Hurricane intensity
Galveston, 1900
Genesis
Miami, 1926
Death and transfiguration
Their eyes were watching God : San Felipe and the Okeechobee disaster of 1928
Taking aim : how hurricanes move
The Labor Day hurricane of 1935
The storm surge
The great New England hurricane of 1938
Waves
Bull Halsey's typhoons
Rain
The hunters
Hurricane Camille
Into the maelstrom : a photo essay
The great East Pakistan cyclone of November, 1970
Forecasting hurricanes
Cyclone Tracy, 1974
Hurricane Andrew, 1992
Hurricanes and climate.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-274) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
551.55/2/09
Library of Congress
QC944 .E43 2005, QC944.E43 2005

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Pagination
x, 285 p. :
Number of pages
285

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24768155M
Internet Archive
divinewindhistor00eman
ISBN 10
0195149416
LCCN
2004013078
OCLC/WorldCat
55616457

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