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This book helps you discover the tumultuous and exciting world of hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones. The science, history, and culture of tropical cyclones around the globe have evolved considerably since the publication of the award-winning first edition of "Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones" nearly 10 years ago. Improved forecasting techniques, new naming systems, and heightened intensity and duration records are only a few of the changes that have taken the meteorological world by storm in recent years."Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones, New Edition" features significant updates and information on recent weather phenomena and the devastation and loss that often resulted. Hurricanes Andrew, Dean, Felix, Gilbert, and Wilma are covered in detail in this comprehensive resource, as well as the most destructive and deadly tropical cyclone witnessed in the United States in the last 50 years - Hurricane Katrina. This completely revised edition features more than 70 all-new black-and-white photographs and line illustrations, a revised introduction, historical and cultural entries, extensively revised front and back matter, a bibliography of print and Web resources, a chronology, and an index.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 2 reviews)

One kind of storm with three different names by R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)

4 Stars
January 13, 2009
With hurricanes ( and the other names as well) being affected by global warming, there is no uniform set of information on this type of storm. This "encyclopedia" helps : most people don't know how rare a category 5 storm has been historically in the whole world. But, now, we are told that category 6 will be something that global warming can bring? The pictures and descriptions of devastation in this book are eye openers. One such large storm has the affect of several atomic weapons on a city. That along with rising sea levels more heat transfer to the atmosphere will in the future cause more damage than Katrina did. Change is upon us and study of books like this should enable engineers to design a standard for building on coastal areas that is better than that of the present.

Very good references book by Caramanna Giorgio (Italy)

5 Stars
May 12, 2008
This book contains an impressive amount of information on hurricanes and related terminology in an encyclopedic structure that allows fast searches by name. The information is useful both for a generic audience and for a more technical-related public. I personally have found this encyclopedia very useful to add information to a chapter of my PhD dissertation in Earth Sciences.

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