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Editorial Reviews
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The powerful winds of the famous Galveston hurricane of 1900 drove mountains of surging water inland with little warning, and met with little understanding. Hurricanes are no different today, but thanks to advances in meteorology conceived by people like Sheets, the former director of the National Hurricane Center and the wide dissemination of information by news media particularly journalists like USA Today weather page founder Williams the United States public is much better prepared than in the past. While thousands died amid massive destruction at the turn of the century, monstrous Andrew destroyed billions of dollars in property in 1992, but took few lives. Sheets and Williams deliver an accessible history of how meteorologists have learned to understand and predict the course of these fearsome atmospheric giants. Except for a basic blunder in the description of satellite orbital mechanics, in which the authors describe a fictitious centrifugal force instead of inertia, the technical writing is clear and accurate. Complementing the discussion of science and technology are stories of human tragedy and triumph and of the risks that still lurk along our coastlines. Readers will easily and eagerly follow the authors' step-by-step look at advances in both meteorology and emergency response from the first known successful hurricane prediction in the 16th century on Columbus's fourth voyage to the New World through advances in instrumentation, satellite imagery, aircraft reconnaissance and computer modeling in the 20th century to the unresolved problems and the uncertainties of changing climate in the 21st.
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Adult/High School-A thoroughly satisfying, chronological investigation of the history and science of hurricanes. Early chapters set the stage with a discussion of 15th-18th-century understandings of atmospheric phenomena, from which point the authors coach readers through 19th- and 20th-century advances in knowledge and technology. They employ vivid accounts of monumental storms and of the people who pioneered groundbreaking techniques to improve the process of forecasting in the interest of saving lives. With its dozen appendixes of facts on deadliest storms, as well as a glossary and valuable index, the book is structured in a way that would accommodate quick research by students. However, its greater value lies in a reading of the entirety as a fascinating exploration of the complex weather patterns that induce hurricanes and of the dedication of those who track them. This volume would be equally viable for its science or its career perspectives.
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The powerful winds of the famous Galveston hurricane of 1900 drove mountains of surging water inland with little warning, and met with little understanding. Hurricanes are no different today, but thanks to advances in meteorology conceived by people like Sheets, the former director of the National Hurricane Center and the wide dissemination of information by news media particularly journalists like USA Today weather page founder Williams the United States public is much better prepared than in the past. While thousands died amid massive destruction at the turn of the century, monstrous Andrew destroyed billions of dollars in property in 1992, but took few lives. Sheets and Williams deliver an accessible history of how meteorologists have learned to understand and predict the course of these fearsome atmospheric giants. Except for a basic blunder in the description of satellite orbital mechanics, in which the authors describe a fictitious centrifugal force instead of inertia, the technical writing is clear and accurate. Complementing the discussion of science and technology are stories of human tragedy and triumph and of the risks that still lurk along our coastlines. Readers will easily and eagerly follow the authors' step-by-step look at advances in both meteorology and emergency response from the first known successful hurricane prediction in the 16th century on Columbus's fourth voyage to the New World through advances in instrumentation, satellite imagery, aircraft reconnaissance and computer modeling in the 20th century to the unresolved problems and the uncertainties of changing climate in the 21st.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-A thoroughly satisfying, chronological investigation of the history and science of hurricanes. Early chapters set the stage with a discussion of 15th-18th-century understandings of atmospheric phenomena, from which point the authors coach readers through 19th- and 20th-century advances in knowledge and technology. They employ vivid accounts of monumental storms and of the people who pioneered groundbreaking techniques to improve the process of forecasting in the interest of saving lives. With its dozen appendixes of facts on deadliest storms, as well as a glossary and valuable index, the book is structured in a way that would accommodate quick research by students. However, its greater value lies in a reading of the entirety as a fascinating exploration of the complex weather patterns that induce hurricanes and of the dedication of those who track them. This volume would be equally viable for its science or its career perspectives.
Lynn Nutwell, Fairfax City Regional Library, VA
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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FROM HIS ACCUSTOMED perch high on the slant stern castle, Christopher Columbus eyed the cirrus clouds drifting overhead from the southeast, and he felt the exceptionally long ocean swell rolling in from the same direction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hurricane community, hurricane reconnaissance, hurricane forecaster, hurricane flights, storm circulation, hurricane center, wave setup, hurricane research, urban refuge, hurricane forecasting, emergency management officials, hurricane hunters, emergency managers, tropical cyclones, eye wall, rain bands, hurricane watch, synoptic maps, storm surge, strong hurricanes, research flights, central pressure, official forecast, major hurricanes, sustained winds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Weather Bureau, Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans, Atlantic Basin, Hurricane Andrew, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Atlantic Ocean, Northern Hemisphere, Gulf Coast, Dade County, South Carolina, Bob Sheets, Caribbean Sea, New England, Father Vines, Isaac Cline, Pacific Ocean, Project Stormfury, Red Cross, William Redfield, Florida Keys, North Atlantic, Third Fleet New!
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FROM HIS ACCUSTOMED perch high on the slant stern castle, Christopher Columbus eyed the cirrus clouds drifting overhead from the southeast, and he felt the exceptionally long ocean swell rolling in from the same direction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hurricane community, hurricane reconnaissance, hurricane forecaster, hurricane flights, storm circulation, hurricane center, wave setup, hurricane research, urban refuge, hurricane forecasting, emergency management officials, hurricane hunters, emergency managers, tropical cyclones, eye wall, rain bands, hurricane watch, synoptic maps, storm surge, strong hurricanes, research flights, central pressure, official forecast, major hurricanes, sustained winds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Weather Bureau, Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans, Atlantic Basin, Hurricane Andrew, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Atlantic Ocean, Northern Hemisphere, Gulf Coast, Dade County, South Carolina, Bob Sheets, Caribbean Sea, New England, Father Vines, Isaac Cline, Pacific Ocean, Project Stormfury, Red Cross, William Redfield, Florida Keys, North Atlantic, Third Fleet New!
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- The Atlantic Ocean (New True Books) by Susan Heinrichs Gray on page 193, page 268, and page 269
- The Pacific Ocean (New True Books) by Susan Heinrichs Gray on page 193, and page 269
- The Indian Ocean (New True Books) by Susan Heinrichs Gray on page 193, and page 269
- The Connecticut River by Evan Hill on page 92
- Direction Finding by United States Navy on page 126
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- Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624--1783 (Early America: History, Context, Culture) by Matthew Mulcahy on 4 pages
- Category 5: The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane by Ernest Zebrowski in Back Matter
- Hurricanes (Disasters Up Close) by Michael Woods in Back Matter
- Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security by Christopher Cooper in Back Matter
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