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Hurricanes and typhoons : past, present, and future /

The book also presents a particularly wide sampling of ongoing efforts to extend hurricane and typhoon data sets using historical material from many sources, including Chinese archives, British naval logbooks, Spanish colonial records, and early diaries from South Carolina." "Tropical mete...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Murnane, Richard J., Liu, Kam-biu
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Hurricanes.
Typhoons.
Cyclone tracks.
Paleoclimatology.
Ouragans.
Typhons.
Cyclones > Trajectoires.
Paléoclimatologie.
hurricanes.
typhoons.
Cyclone tracks
Hurricanes
Paleoclimatology
Typhoons
Wirbelsturm
Wervelstormen.
Paleoklimatologie.
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Summary:The book also presents a particularly wide sampling of ongoing efforts to extend hurricane and typhoon data sets using historical material from many sources, including Chinese archives, British naval logbooks, Spanish colonial records, and early diaries from South Carolina." "Tropical meteorologists, geologists, and climatologists will find this book particularly useful, as will members of the catastrophe reinsurance industry, graduate students in meteorology, and public employees active in planning and emergency management."--Jacket.
Physical Description:xii, 462 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0231123884
9780231123884