Divine wind : the history and science of hurricanes / Kerry Emanuel.
Record details
- ISBN: 0195149416
- Physical Description: x, 285 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, [2005]
- Copyright: ©2005
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Hurricanes > History. |
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- 6 of 6 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Old Fort Branch Library | 551.55 EMA (Text) | 37810434359187 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
