Our affair with El Niño : how we transformed an enchanting Peruvian current into a global climate h...
Our affair with El Niño : how we transformed an enchanting Peruvian current into a global climate h...
Our affair with El Niño : how we transformed an enchanting Peruvian current into a global climate hazard / S. George Philander.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.
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N551.6/113
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English
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x, 275 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Prologue: Assessing Our Affair as It Approaches a Critical Juncture -- Pt. 1. Who is El Nino? -- 1. A Mercurial Character -- 2. A Fallen Angel? -- 3. A Construct of Ours -- 4. A Matchmaker -- Pt. 2. Our Dilemma -- 5. Two Incompatible Cultures -- 6. "Small" Science versus "Big" Science -- Pt. 3. Comm...
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.
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c2004.
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"Until 1997, few people had heard of the seasonal current that Peruvians nicknamed El Nino. But when meteorologists linked it to devastating floods in California, severe droughts in Indonesia, and strange weather everywhere, its name became entrenched in the common parlance faster than a typhoon making landfall. Bumper stickers appeared bearing thi...
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Our affair with El Niño : how we transformed an enchanting Peruvian current into a global climate hazard / S. George Philander.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2004.
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N551.6/113
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0691113351 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9780691113357 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0691113351 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780691113357 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
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551.6
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991017736399702626
