Tornadoes (Facts on File Dangerous Weather Series) - Hardcover

Allaby, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816047960 ISBN 13: 9780816047963

Publisher: Facts on File, 2004

Synopsis

Describes how a tornado forms, its structure, how it travels, and how a tornado dies, along with information on such topics as when tornadoes happen, measuring the severity of a tornado, tracking and forecasting, and safety during a tornado.

About this title

From Kirkus Reviews:

This volume in the Dangerous Weather series will discourage all but the most intrepid of budding meteorologists. Small, dense type and a difficult, specialized vocabulary combine for some college-level discourse: ``Diverging air, flowing away from an area of high pressure, or anticyclone, has negative relative vorticity and provided the divergence continues at a constant rate, its absolute vorticity decreases eventually to zero.'' A single paragraph introduces planetary vorticity, vorticity of the moving stream, relative vorticity, absolute vorticity, cyclonic motion, positive vorticity, anticyclonic, and negative vorticity. The title may act as a supplement to curriculum-planning, but it's impossible to imagine students settling into this one on their own. (b&w photos and illustrations, not seen) (Nonfiction. 14+) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0816047960
• ISBN 13: 9780816047963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176
• Illustrator: Garratt Richard