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" Hurricane! : "
Robert Simpson, editor, Richard Anthes and Michael Garstang, co-editors, Joanne Simpson, assistant editor
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660858
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Hurricane! : : coping with disaster : progress and challenges since Galveston, 1900 /\ Robert Simpson, editor, Richard Anthes and Michael Garstang, co-editors, Joanne Simpson, assistant editor
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x, 360 pages :: illustrations (some color) ;; 23 cm
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0875902979
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: 9780875902975
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: 9780875902982
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: 0875902987
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Includes bibliographical references (page 335) and index
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1. Twentieth century challenges and milestones -- 2. Impact of technologies from two world wars -- 3. Hurricane surveillance by specially instrumented aircraft -- 4. Evolution of prediction models -- 5. The great Galveston hurricane of 1900 -- 6. Social choice in dealing with hurricanes -- 7. Communicating damage potentials and minimizing hurricane damage -- 8. reducing vulnerability -- 9. A century of scientific progress -- 10. A century of progress in tracking and warning -- 11. The burgeoning role of weather satellites -- 12. Present day satellite technology for hurricane research -- 13. Continuous monitoring of the hurricane core -- 14. Hurricane upper level wind measurements -- 15. A century after Galveston, 1900 -- Appendices -- Index
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Hurricanes-- United States, Congresses
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Hurricane protection-- United States, Congresses
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Natural disaster warning systems, Congresses
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Weather forecasting-- United States, Congresses
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363.34/9227/0973
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QC945.H864 2003
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Simpson, Robert H
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Anthes, Richard A
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Garstang, Michael
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Simpson, Joanne
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