Hurricane!: Coping with Disaster: Progress and Challenges Since Galveston, 1900

by Richard A. Anthes, Michael Garstang, Joanne M. Simpson

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series . Hurricane research implicates something more than science. It is the key to saving lives and mitigating economic damage. From the Galveston catastrophe of 1900, where more than 8,000 people died, to the economic devastation wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 in the United States, scientists have striven to understand and track hurricanes while charting their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875902987
• ISBN13: 9780875902982
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: American Geophysical Union
• Length: 360 Pages
• Age Range: 19 years and up