El Niño : unlocking the secrets of the master weather-maker / J. Madeleine Nash.
El Niño : unlocking the secrets of the master weather-maker / J. Madeleine Nash.
El Niño : unlocking the secrets of the master weather-maker / J. Madeleine Nash.
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New York : Warner Books, c2002.
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N551.6/109
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English
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viii, 340 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Chapter One 1 -- Rio Nido * Imprint of a Mighty Fin * A Common Thread -- Chapter Two 27 -- The Christmas Current * The Southern Oscillation -- The Spur to Synthesis -- Chapter Three 55 -- Quelccaya * Enter El Nifio * From the Jaws of Defeat -- Chapter Four 85 -- Surp...
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New York : Warner Books, c2002.
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New York (State)
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c2002.
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"From the Peruvian fishermen who noticed a warming of coastal waters and christened the phenomenon the Corriente del Nino (the Current of the Christ Child)...to the British colonialists looking for the causes of droughts in India...to contemporary meteorologists, glaciologists, biologists, archaeologists, and others, Nash introduces us to those who...
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El Niño : unlocking the secrets of the master weather-maker / J. Madeleine Nash.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-324) and index.
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N551.6/109
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0446524816 :
9780446524810
0446524816
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551.6
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