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El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-maker Book
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Product Description
It brings droughts, mud slides, killer storms, and even epidemics and hordes of frogs and rats. Now for the first time, here is the complete -and fascinating-story of the powerful weather-maker known as El NiÒo. In this saga of scientists and civilians, murderous storms and ecological shifts, award-winning Time(r) magazine science writer J. Madeline Nash reveals the mysterious sources of El NiÒo and its far-reaching, almost unbelievable effects on the lives of people around the world. The story begins with a warming of the coastal waters that Peruvian fishermen have noted for centuries, and the observations of 19th Century British colonial observers who marked the correlation between famine-causing droughts and drastic changes in wind patterns and barometric pressure. For over a century and a half, scientists and explorers added links of knowledge to a chain of observations that at last created a picture of what they call ENSO: El NiÒo Southern Oscillation, a picture that contains within it the interplay of wind, water, and geo-thermal forces that violently affects the world's weather. EL NI?O's story is filled with human drama, tragedy, and triumph.
- 0446679925
- 9780446679923
- J.M. Nash
- 5 June 2003
- Little, Brown & Company
- Paperback (Book)
- 352
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