This electronic book on CD-ROM presents a truly historic and spectacular collection of nearly 1500 photographs of dramatic storms and weather phenomena. Over 200 photos from the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) show tornadoes, instruments, sky scenes, lightning, and hail. Over 1200 historic and dramatic photos from the National Weather Service include Weather Wonders - Cloudy Days, Foggy Days, Rainbows, Halos & Reflections, Sun Dogs, Sun Pillars, Rays & Bands, Sunset & Sunrise, Space Weather; Meteorological Monsters – Tornadoes, Waterspouts, Hurricanes, Visible Satellite Images, Hurricane Camille, Hurricane Hugo, Hurricane Andrew, Lightning, Dust, Floods, The Johnstown Flood, Winter Storms, Surf's Up, Exploring the Atmosphere - Kites and Balloons, Aircraft, Radar & Other Electronic Methods, Measuring Instruments and Methods; Getting the Word Out - Headquarters and Field Offices, Maps & Other Products, Warning Systems.
This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for weather and storm enthusiasts, libraries, researchers, schools, students, and home reference!
Our unique "IMAGE GALLERY" in Acrobat format reproduces the photos in a "photo album" suitable for quick full-screen browsing! Many of the photos are accompanied by the NOAA caption. This format was designed to mimic the look and "feel" of a real book. There is no need to laboriously import images into a slow-loading program. We've also included the original image files, with some of the finest photographs provided in high resolution (about one MB per file).
This CD-ROM is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review.
The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.
