Meteorology category: 1039 books
Thirty-Eight
The Hurricane That Transformed New England
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England’s most damaging weather event ever. To call it “New England’s Katrina” might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island and New England, killing hundreds of people...
A Cold Welcome
The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
When Europeans arrived in North America, the average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia and its effects—famine, starvation, desperation, and violence—were stark among colonists unprepared to fend for themselves. This history of the Little Ice Age in North America reminds us of the risks of a changing and unfamiliar climate.
Weather: An Illustrated History
From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
“Beautifully illustrated . . . Think of this book like dining on tapas, boasting savory flavors, some unexpected, that constitute a satisfying whole.” —Washington Post
Andrew Revkin, **strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism at the National Geographic Society and...
by Tim Ball PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book examines the claims of human induced global warming made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) using proper journalistic and investigative techniques. It explains how it was a premeditated, orchestrated deception, using science to impose a political agenda. It fooled a...
How to Get Expelled From School
A guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Are pupils, parents and the public being fed political propaganda on climate change? Now is your chance to find out. Professor Plimer gives 101 simple questions with answers for you to ask teachers, activists, journalists and politicians. The climate industry adjusts the temperature record and withholds...
by Sherry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental history,...
Storm Warning
The Story of a Killer Tornado
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
A nail-biting, captivating look at tornados, from personal stories of those impacted by the natural disasters to the history of the struggle to understand this bewildering force of Mother Nature.
May 3, 1999, is a day that Oklahomans will never forget. By the time the sun set over a ravaged...
The Discovery of Weather
Stephen Saxby, the tumultuous birth of weather forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf wars then halted by the Civil War. Forecasters...
The Storm
What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Loui siana Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The ultimate inside story of the Katrina tragedy?from the cofounder of the LSU Hurricane Center
After warning for years about the looming threat of catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, Ivor van Heerden was one of the highest-profile media experts during the Katrina disaster. Over the following...
Extreme Weather (Tornadoes To Hurricanes)
Earth Facts and Fun Book for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Most children are enthralled by nature, specifically outer space and various weather conditions. Because not everyone lives in a geographic region that experiences tornadoes and hurricanes, picture books are a great way for children to learn about these events. A well illustrated picture book can help...
Out of the Blue
A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
The odds of being hit by lightning each year are only about 1 in 750,000 in the U.S. And yet this rare phenomenon has inspired both fear and fascination for thousands of years. In this groundbreaking, brilliantly researched book, journalist John S. Friedman probes lightning’s scientific, spiritual,...
Man vs. Weather
Be Your Own Weatherman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
A humorous and practical guide to the history and science of understanding the weather?plus, how to build your own barometer!
For as long as man has walked upon this earth, he has been forced to survive under the cruel tyranny of weather. Let?s face it: there is no escape. Now, in Man vs. Weather,...
Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment
Volume 3: Targeted Landslides
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Third World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in June 2014. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in three full-color volumes and one mono-color volume.
by Tao Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This book reflects the latest research results in computer modelling of landslide-induced debris flows. The book establishes an understanding of the initiation and propagation mechanisms of landslides by means of numerical simulations, so that mitigation strategies to reduce the long-term losses from...