The Tornado Scientist
Title | The Tornado Scientist PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Kay Carson |
Publisher | Clarion Books |
Pages | 85 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0544965825 |
Describes the work of Robin Tanamachi, a storm chaser who studies how tornadoes form, detailing her team's work in a Doppler radar truck to obtain data that may enable lifesaving discoveries.
Twisters
Title | Twisters PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Thomas |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781404809307 |
Discusses tornadoes, how they form, and the damage they can do.
The Science of a Tornado
Title | The Science of a Tornado PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Cernak |
Publisher | Cherry Lake |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2015-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1633625141 |
This book discusses the science behind tornadoes and their effects. The chapters describe deadly tornadoes, examine the weather conditions that cause tornadoes, and explain how people prepare for these disasters. Diagrams, charts, and photos provide opportunities to evaluate and understand the scientific concepts involved.
How to Make a Tornado
Title | How to Make a Tornado PDF eBook |
Author | New Scientist |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2016-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1473651190 |
Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we don't often hear about because they are so specialised, or turn out to be dead ends. Yet researchers have given hallucinogenic drugs to blind people (seriously), tried to weigh the soul as it departs the body and planned to blast a new Panama Canal with atomic weapons. Real scientific breakthroughs sometimes come out of the most surprising and unpromising work. How to Make a Tornado is about the margins of science - not the research down tried-and-tested routes, but some of its zanier and more brilliant by-ways. Investigating everything from what it's like to die, to exploding trousers and recycled urine, this book is a reminder that science is intensely creative and often very amusing - and when their minds run free, scientists can fire the imagination like nobody else.
Twister
Title | Twister PDF eBook |
Author | Keay Davidson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0671000292 |
The most dangerous and least understood atmospheric phenomenon, tornadoes are the subject of a upcoming Steven Spielberg thriller entitled Twister. Complete with spectacular close-up photos, this book explores the genesis of tornadoes and profiles the scientists who try to monitor them.
Storm Kings
Title | Storm Kings PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Sandlin |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2014-03-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307473589 |
With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin retraces America's fascination and unique relationship to tornadoes and the weather. From Ben Franklin's early experiments, to "the great storm debates" of the nineteenth century, to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin shows how tornado chasing helped foster the birth of meteorology, recreating with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating storms in America's history. Drawing on memoirs, letters, eyewitness testimonies, and numerous archives, Sandlin brings to life the forgotten characters and scientists that changed a nation and how successive generations came to understand and finally coexist with the spiraling menace that could erase lives and whole towns in an instant.
The Man Who Caught the Storm
Title | The Man Who Caught the Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Brantley Hargrove |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2019-04-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1476796106 |
The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post). At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science’s every effort to divine its inner workings had ended in failure. Researchers all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider. In a field of PhDs, Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared. When he achieved what meteorologists had deemed impossible, it was as if he had snatched the fire of the gods. Yet even as he transformed the field, Samaras kept on pushing. As his ambitions grew, so did the risks. And when he finally met his match—in a faceoff against the largest tornado ever recorded—it upended everything he thought he knew. Brantley Hargrove delivers a “cinematically thrilling and scientifically wonky” (Outside) tale, chronicling the life of Tim Samaras in all its triumph and tragedy. Hargrove takes readers inside the thrill of the chase, the captivating science of tornadoes, and the remarkable character of a man who walked the line between life and death in pursuit of knowledge. The Man Who Caught the Storm is an “adrenaline rush of a tornado chase…Readers from all across the spectrum will enjoy this” (Library Journal, starred review) unforgettable exploration of obsession and the extremes of the natural world.