Storm kings : the untold history of America's first tornado chasers / Lee Sandlin.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2013Edition: 1st edDescription: xxv, 266 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780307378521
- 0307378527
- QC955 .S26 2013
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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BOOK | NCAR Library Foothills Lab | QC955 .S26 2013 | 1 | Available | 50583010342255 |
Map on lining papers.
A riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster--the supercell tornado--that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.
Introduction: Ghost riders -- Prologue: The pillar in the storm -- The thunder house -- The storm war -- Red wind and tornado green -- The mystery of severe storms -- Epilogue: The wild hunt.