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GLOBAL TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS
Springer 2011; US$ 139.99Cyclogenesis research is a central issue of meteorology and climatology. This book gives a deep specific view and fundamentally and effectively contributes to the discussion of the problem. It treats cyclogenisis as a stochastic process in a very fundamental way. Since the publication of the first edition of Global Tropical Cyclogenesis in 2001, a... more...
An assessment of uncertainties and limitations in simulating tropical cyclone climatology and future
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99The thesis work was in two major parts: development and testing of a new approach to detecting and tracking tropical cyclones in climate models; and application of an extreme value statistical approach to enable assessment of changes in weather extremes from climate models. The tracking algorithm applied a creative phase-space approach to differentiate... more...
Hurricane Watch
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 15.00The ultimate guide to the ultimate storms, Hurricane Watch is a fascinating blend of science and history from one of the world's foremost meteorologists and an award-winning science journalist. This in-depth look at these awe-inspiring acts of nature covers everything from the earliest efforts by seafarers at predicting storms to the way satellite... more...
Sudden Sea
Little, Brown and Company 2008; US$ 9.99The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story. more...
Investigating Storms
Teacher Created Materials Publishing 2007; US$ 8.99Connect content-area literacy and science with differentiated readers featuring lab activities and profiles of related scientitists more...
Divine Wind
Oxford University Press, USA 2005; US$ 41.99Imagine standing at the center of a Roman coliseum that is 20 miles across, with walls that soar 10 miles into the sky, towering walls with cascades of ice crystals falling along its brilliantly white surface. That's what it's like to stand in the eye of a hurricane. In Divine Wind, Kerry Emanuel, one of the world's leading authorities... more...
Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change
Springer 2010; US$ 99.99This book explores the effect of climate change on tropical cyclones, especially in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal, where populations are dense along the coastlines. more...
Global Perspectives on Tropical Cyclones
World Scientific Publishing Company 2010; US$ 173.00This book is a completely rewritten, updated and expanded new edition of the original "Global Perspectives on Tropical Cyclones" published in 1995. It presents a comprehensive review of the state of science and forecasting of tropical cyclones together with the application of this science to disaster mitigation, hence the tag: From Science... more...
Que tipo de tiempo (What Kind of Weather?)
Shell Education 2010; US$ 6.99Children will be inspired to tell their own stories with this wordless reader, filled with engaging, colorful images that show different kinds of weather and what we can see and do in them. more...
Instant Storm Forecasting
A&C Black 2009; US$ 10.39Instant Storm Forecasting isan invaluable reference for anyone pursuing outdoor activities. Usingdramatic photographs of cloud formations, helpful tables and practicalexplanations, Alan Watts equips the reader with the tools to assess thechances of being caught out in a storm, and judge how severe that stormmight be. He explains how strong winds build... more...









