El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker

Nash, J. Madeleine

ISBN 10: 0446524816 / ISBN 13: 9780446524810

Edité par Warner Books, New York, 2002

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viii, 340 pp. First printing. This is a reading copy only. There is frequent underlining and marginalia in the text, and notes on the front endpapers. The book is slightly cocked. The binding is tight.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker
• Éditeur: Warner Books, New York
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0446524816
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780446524810
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

Mark Twain said that everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it. In El Nino, award-winning Time magazine science writer J. Madeleine Nash tells the story of scientists past and present, around the world, who did something about the incredible weather phenomenon of El Nino (and his contrary sister La Nina), which can create drought in some of the world's most tropical areas while creating havoc- wreaking storm systems on the opposite side of the globe. 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 Nino Southern Oscillation, a picture that contains within it the interplay of wind, water, and geothermal forces that violently affects the world's weather.

Présentation de l'éditeur

In 'El Niano', award-winning science writer J. Madeleine Nash introduces us to the scientists and others whose observations and research have added to our knowledge of this incredible weather phenomenon.