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Storm kings : the untold history of America's first tornado chasers / Lee Sandlin.

By: New York : Pantheon Books, c2013Edition: 1st edDescription: xxv, 266 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307378521
  • 0307378527
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC955 .S26 2013
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC955 .S26 2013 1 Available 50583010342255
Total holds: 0

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.

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