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Divine Wind The History and Science of Hurricanes

by: Emanuel, Kerry

Divine Wind The History and Science of Hurricanes

by: Emanuel, Kerry

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Copyright: 09/01/2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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I magine standing at the Center of a Roman Coliseum That is 20 Miles Across, with Walls that Soar 10 Miles into the sky, towering walls with cascades of ice crystals falling along its brilliantly white surface. That's what it's like to stand in the eye of a hurricane.

List of Illustrated Passages	p. vi
Preface	p. ix
Kamikaze	p. 3
Anatomy of a Meteorological Monster	p. 7
Huracan	p. 18
The Tropical Hothouse	p. 23
Columbus's Hurricane	p. 30
The Tropical Downpour	p. 34
France Gives Up La Floride, 1565	p. 38
The Trade Winds	p. 41
The Tempest	p. 49
Nature's Steam Engine	p. 54
The Hurricanes of 1780	p. 63
Hurricane Intensity	p. 72
Galveston, 1900	p. 83
Genesis	p. 93
Miami, 1926	p. 104
Death and Transfiguration	p. 109
Their Eyes Were Watching God: San Felipe and the Okeechobee Disaster of 1928	p. 117
Taking Aim: How Hurricanes Move	p. 125
The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935	p. 136
The Storm Surge	p. 147
The Great New England Hurricane of 1938	p. 155
Waves	p. 165
Bull Halsey's Typhoons	p. 174
Rain	p. 182
The Hunters	p. 193
Hurricane Camille	p. 205
Into the Maelstrom: A Photo Essay	p. 213
The Great East Pakistan Cyclone of November 1970	p. 221
Forecasting Hurricanes	p. 227
Cyclone Tracy	p. 240
Hurricane Andrew, 1992	p. 245
Hurricanes and Climate	p. 252
Epilogue	p. 260
Notable Tropical Cyclones	p. 262
Hurricane Records	p. 267
Vortex on a Chip	p. 268
Sources and Further Reading	p. 269
Credits	p. 275
Index	p. 278
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Divine Wind The History and Science of Hurricanes

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