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El Niño : unlocking the secrets of the master weather-maker
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- Creator
- J. Madeleine Nash
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Warner Books, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- viii, 340 pages : map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780446524810, 0446524816
- OCLC
- ocm47716458
- Map on endpapers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-324) and index.
- 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 -- Surprise * Wyrtki's Waves * Foreshadowings -- Chapter Five 112 -- The Onset * Teleconnections * The Warning -- Chapter Six 139 -- Stormy Weather * Of Houses Swallowed by Mud -- * Anatomy of a Slide -- Chapter Seven 168 -- Out of Africa * Of Mice and Men * D6ja Vu? -- Chapter Eight 199 -- Wanariset Samboja * A Tragedy Foretold -- * The Carbon Connection -- Chapter Nine 226 -- The Faraway Island * Cycles Within Cycles -- * Back to the Future -- Chapter Ten 256 -- The Hot Zone * A Special Time * The Scrolls -- Chapter Eleven 286 -- Back to Quelccaya * Rise a'nd Fall * The Other Leviathan -- Acknowledgments 310 -- Selected Bibliography 314 -- Copyright Acknowledgments 325 -- Index 329