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The tornado scientist : seeing inside severe storms /

"What if tornadoes could be stopped or slowed down? In this addition to the critically-acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to come up with a way to predict tornadoes with even greater accuracy, and save countless lives across America's...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carson, Mary Kay (Author)
Other Authors: Uhlman, Tom (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]
Series:Scientists in the field.
Subjects:
Tanamachi, Robin > Juvenile literature.
Tanamachi, Robin.
Meteorologists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Storm chasers > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Tornadoes > Juvenile literature.
Women scientists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Meteorologists.
Storm chasers.
Tornadoes.
Women scientists.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Science & Nature > Disasters.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Science & Nature > Discoveries.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Science & Nature > Earth Sciences > Weather.
Juvenile works.
Biographies.
Instructional and educational works.
Table of Contents:
  • A southern twist
  • Storm chaser genesis
  • Twister science 2.0
  • Scanning the skies
  • A tragic year
  • Setting a tornado net
  • Future forecasts
  • Words (and acronyms) to know.