1998, ISBN: 080506611X

In October 1998, a tropical wave (a.k.a. "seedling disturbance") churned up in the waters off West Africa, where the hot air masses of the Sahara and the tropics meet the cold wall of the… Mehr…

In October 1998, a tropical wave (a.k.a. "seedling disturbance") churned up in the waters off West Africa, where the hot air masses of the Sahara and the tropics meet the cold wall of the Atlantic Ocean. This "bundle of disarranged weather," in Pete Davies's memorable phrase, gathered strength as it passed across the ocean, emerging days later as the catastrophic Hurricane Mitch, which devastated huge sections of the Caribbean and Central America and killed thousands of people. Mitch fascinated storm-chasing meteorologists, who, in the main, failed to predict the storm's intensity and to track it accurately. They failed for good reason, Davies suggests: these scientific heroes, the kind of men and women who think nothing of flying through the eyewall of great storms to see what's inside, catalogue their findings through research programs that, Davies writes, are woefully underfunded and understaffed. The United States sends up only two sets of weather balloons a day, many other hurricane-prone countries lack the resources to send up any balloons at all, and a key satellite failed during the storm. Despite the destruction that Mitch wrought, and despite a mountain of evidence that shows that storms are becoming ever more severe in their intensity as a result of global warming, "the world's upper-air network is being steadily degraded" as governments seek to cut their budgets. All of which, Davies suggests, means that although doomsday storms may become commonplace, our abil adventure,atmospheric sciences,earth sciences,environment,natural disasters,rivers,science and math,science and math,specialty travel,textbooks Earth Sciences, Holt Paperbacks<

1998, ISBN: 080506611X

In October 1998, a tropical wave (a.k.a. "seedling disturbance") churned up in the waters off West Africa, where the hot air masses of the Sahara and the tropics meet the cold wall of the… Mehr…

In October 1998, a tropical wave (a.k.a. "seedling disturbance") churned up in the waters off West Africa, where the hot air masses of the Sahara and the tropics meet the cold wall of the Atlantic Ocean. This "bundle of disarranged weather," in Pete Davies's memorable phrase, gathered strength as it passed across the ocean, emerging days later as the catastrophic Hurricane Mitch, which devastated huge sections of the Caribbean and Central America and killed thousands of people. Mitch fascinated storm-chasing meteorologists, who, in the main, failed to predict the storm's intensity and to track it accurately. They failed for good reason, Davies suggests: these scientific heroes, the kind of men and women who think nothing of flying through the eyewall of great storms to see what's inside, catalogue their findings through research programs that, Davies writes, are woefully underfunded and understaffed. The United States sends up only two sets of weather balloons a day, many other hurricane-prone countries lack the resources to send up any balloons at all, and a key satellite failed during the storm. Despite the destruction that Mitch wrought, and despite a mountain of evidence that shows that storms are becoming ever more severe in their intensity as a result of global warming, "the world's upper-air network is being steadily degraded" as governments seek to cut their budgets. All of which, Davies suggests, means that although doomsday storms may become commonplace, our abil adventure,atmospheric sciences,earth sciences,environment,natural disasters,nature,rivers,science and math,science and math,specialty travel Earth Sciences, Holt Paperbacks<

2001, ISBN: 080506611X

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ISBN: 9780805066111

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