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Emanuel, Kerry A.,
1955-
Divine wind :
the history and science of hurricanes /
Kerry Emanuel.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references 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, 190 0 -- Genesis -- Miami, 1926 -- Death and transfiguration -- Their eyes were watching God : San Felipe and the Okeechob ee disaster of 1928 -- Taking aim : how hurricanes move -- The Labor Day hurricane of 1935 -- The storm surge -- The gr eat New England hurricane of 1938 -- Waves -- Bull Halsey's typhoons -- Rain -- The hunters -- Hurricane Camille -- In to the maelstrom : a photo essay -- The great East Pakistan cyclone of November, 1970 -- Forecasting hurricanes -- Cyc lone Tracy, 1974 -- Hurricane Andrew, 1992 -- Hurricanes and climate.
20070228.
Hurricanes
History.