Hurricanes
By: Mary E. Williams, book editor, [David E. Fisher].
Contributors: Mary E. Williams (Editor)
Series: Great disasters
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Format: Board book
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Disasters & Disaster Relief; Hurricanes; General; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); History: World; Social Science; Nature - Weather/Natural Disasters; History / General; Science & Nature - Disasters; Science & Nature - Earth Sciences - Weather
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1: The science and study of hurricanes. The nature of hurricanes / David E. Fisher; title: Predicting the intensity of hurricanes / Robert Henson; title: Hurricanes and global warming / David Bjerklie and Dick Thompson; title: Hunting prehistoric hurricanes / John Tarvis; title: The possibility of ancient "hypercanes" / Kathy A. Svitil. Chapter 2: Disasters and personal accounts. A total dissolution of nature / Alexander Hamilton; title: The great Galveston hurricane of 1900 / Stephen Fox; title: Surviving Camille / Lyle Prescott; title: Hunting Hugo / Jeffrey M. Masters. Chapter 3: Preventing calamity. Improving hurricane forecasting / Richard A. Kerr; title: A guide to hurricane preparedness / The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Appendix 1: The Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale; title: Appendix 2: The fifteen most deadly Atlantic hurricanes since 1492; title: Appendix 3: The fifteen most deadly U.S. hurricanes since 1900.