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Author: James B. Elsner
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780195125085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs people continue to develop coastal areas, society's liability to hurricanes will dramatically increase, regardless of changes in the environment. This book addresses these key issues, providing a detailed examination of
Author: George W. Cry
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rick Schwartz
Publisher: Blue Diamond Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780978628000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reference traces the region's 400-year recorded hurricane history, from Jamestown to the present, drawing on accounts in newspaper articles, books, private journals, and interviews. Emphasizing the human side of a hurricane's aftermath rather than scientific aspects, each hurricane account tells how individuals and communities reacted to the storms. Storms are profiled in year-by-year entries from the 1600's to the current century.
Author: Mikhail Abdul-Rahim Alaka
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James B. Elsner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-06-10
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 0195352289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalled the greatest storms on the planet, hurricanes of the North Atlantic Ocean often cause tremendous social and economic upheaval in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. And with the increasing development of coastal areas, the impact of these storms will likely increase. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of North Atlantic hurricanes and what they mean to society. It is intended as an intermediary between hurricane climate research and the users of hurricane information. Topics include the climatology of tropical cyclones in general and those of the North Atlantic in particular; the major North Atlantic hurricanes, focusing on U.S. landfalling storms; the prediction models used in forecasting; and societal vulnerability to hurricanes, including ideas for modeling the relationship between climatological data and analysis in the social and economic sciences.
Author: Richard J. Murnane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004-12-01
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780231509282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys the past, present, and potential future variability of hurricanes and typhoons on a variety of timescales using newly developed approaches based on geological and archival records, in addition to more traditional approaches based on the analysis of the historical record of tropical cyclone tracks. A unique aspect of the book is that it provides an overview of the developing field of paleotempestology, which uses geological, biological, and documentary evidence to reconstruct prehistoric changes in hurricane landfall. The book also presents a particularly wide sampling of ongoing efforts to extend the best track data sets using historical material from many sources, including Chinese archives, British naval logbooks, Spanish colonial records, and early diaries from South Carolina. The book will be of particular interest to tropical meteorologists, geologists, and climatologists as well as to the catastrophe reinsurance industry, graduate students in meteorology, and public employees active in planning and emergency management.
Author: Jennifer M. Collins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-02-20
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 3319475940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides research that shows tropical cyclones are more powerful than in the past with the most dramatic increases occurring over the North Atlantic and with the strongest hurricanes. Although such increases are correlated with warming oceans and are consistent with the thermodynamic theory of hurricane intensity, there remains doubt about the interpretation, integrity, and meaning of these results. Arising from the 5th International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change, this book contains new research on topics related to hurricanes and climate change. Bringing together international leading academics and researchers on various sides of the debate, the book discusses new research and expresses opinions about what is happening and what might happen in the future with regard to regional and global hurricane (tropical cyclone) activity.
Author: Paul V. Kislow
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781594547270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA hurricane is a tropical storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more. Hurricane winds blow in a large spiral around a relative calm centre known as the "eye." The "eye" is generally 20 to 30 miles wide, and the storm may extend outward 400 miles. As a hurricane approaches, the skies will begin to darken and winds will grow in strength. As a hurricane nears land, it can bring torrential rains, high winds, and storm surges. A single hurricane can last for more than 2 weeks over open waters and can run a path across the entire length of the eastern seaboard. August and September are peak months during the hurricane season that lasts from 1 June to 30 November. This book presents the facts and history of hurricanes.
Author: Roger A Pielke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1317829581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1990, this book describes the nature of the hurricane, one of the world's most dangerous weather hazards. It examines the formation, development, movement, and impact of these tropical cyclones, and assess the ability of science to describe, forecast, and control them.
Author: George W. Cry
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 230
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