Synopses & Reviews
Review
"This volume is recommended for geology and natural hazard reference collections." - American Reference Books Annual
Review
"This book will be useful for its encyclopedic content. General readers, graduate students, faculty, and researchers." - Choice
Review
"Remember it for your next hurricane patron. For those without standing orders, consider this as an individual purchase, it will serve you well. Recommended for all libraries." - E-Streams
Synopsis
• Includes a summary of hurricanes in the past century in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and details important recent storms such as Agnes, Hugo, Camille, and Andrew
• Advances in field studies and forecasting are examined, from observations in the Virgin Islands in the early 1900s to satellite pictures and computer projections
Synopsis
This easily accessible reference work reveals the workings of savage tropical storms, charts their actions and cycles, assesses their economic and environmental impact, and reviews the latest research on hurricanes.