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Hurricane!

Coping with Disaster: Progress and Challenges Since Galveston, 1900

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

Av Robert Simpson, Richard Anthes, Michael Garstan

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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series. Hurricane research implicates something more than science. It is the key to saving lives and mitigating economic damage. From the Galveston catastrophe of 1900, where more than 8,000 people died, to the economic devastation wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 in the United States, scientists have striven to understand and track hurricanes while charting their societal effects. Hurricane! Coping with Disaster tells the dramatic history of that effort by leading meteorologists—the men and women who brought hurricane science into the 21st century, and those who sustain it today. for readers everywhere interested in climatology, hurricane research, the historical background, and more.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-01-01
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpecial Publications
Antal sidor360
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780875902975

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Foreword vPreface viiPart I. Struggles to Understand and Track HurricanesIntroductory CommentsChapter 1 Twentieth Century Challenges and MilestonesWilliam M. Gray 3Chapter 2 Impact of Technologiesfr om Two World WarsEdward N. Rappaport and Robert H. Simpson 39Chapter 3 Hurricane Surveillance by Specially Instrumented AircraftRobert C. Sheets 63Chapter 4 Evolution of Prediction ModelsMark DeMaria and James M. Gross 103Part II. Societal and Economic ChallengesIntroductory Comments 127Chapter 5 The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900Neil L. Frank 129Chapter 6 Social Choice in Dealing with HurricanesMary Frances Myers and Gilbert F. White 141Chapter7 CommunicatingD amage Potentialsa nd Minimizing Hurricane DamageHerbert S. Saffir 155Chapter 8 Reducing VulnerabilityRoger A. Pielke., Jr. 165PART lll. Potential Impact of Science and Technology, Present and FutureIntroductory Comments 175Chapter 9 A Century of Scientific Progress An EvaluationKerry Emanuel 177Chapter 10 A Century of Progressin Tracking and WarningImprovements in Observations, Models, and ForecastsH. E. Willoughby 205Chapter 11 The Burgeoning Role of Weather SatellitesC. Velden, J. Simpson, W. Timothy Liu, J. Hawkins, K. Brueske, and R. Anthes 217Chapter 12 Present Day Satellite Technology for Hurricane ResearchA Closer Look at Formation and IntensificationE. A. Ritchie, J. Simpson, W.T Liu, J. Halverson, C. Velden, K.F. Brueske, and H. Pierce 249Chapter 13 Continuous Monitoring of the Hurricane CoreAvailability of New Long-Endurance Small Drone AircraftGreg Tyrrell and Greg Holland 291Chapter 14 Hurricane Upper Level Wind MeasurementsApplications of Doppler LidarG. David Emmitt 305Chapter 15 A Century After Galveston, 1900A Personal Perspective and OutlookGreg Holland 317Appendices Recommended Further Reading 335Acronyms and Abbreviations 336Brief Meteorological Glossary 339Index 351