Divine wind : the history and science of hurricanes /
Emanuel, Kerry A., 1955-
Divine wind : the history and science of hurricanes / Kerry Emanuel. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005. - x, 285 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-274) and index.
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.
0195149416 (cloth : alk. paper)
2004013078
Hurricanes--History.
QC 944 / E53d 2005
551.55/2/09
Divine wind : the history and science of hurricanes / Kerry Emanuel. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005. - x, 285 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-274) and index.
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.
0195149416 (cloth : alk. paper)
2004013078
Hurricanes--History.
QC 944 / E53d 2005
551.55/2/09