DIVINE WIND
The History and Science of Hurricanes
by
Kerry Emanuel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
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Supplementary Material by Chapter
Vortex on a Chip Computer Program
Hurricane Links
General information
NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory Hurricane Research Division
Chris Landsea’s Frequently Asked Questions about hurricanes
The hurricane hunters web page
Technical review article on tropical cyclones
Hurricane Photos
NOAA Photo library hurricane pages
The hurricane hunters web page
Forecasts and other information
NOAA Tropical Prediction Center
NOAA Central Pacific Hurricane Center
U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center
Naval Research Laboratory tropical cyclone page
Tropical cyclone track and intensity forecasts
Potential intensity maps from the Center for Ocean-Land Atmosphere Studies
Satellite images and other information
Naval Research Laboratory tropical cyclone page
Atlantic Tropical Weather Center
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
United Kingdom Meteorological Office tropical cyclone page
Colorado State University tropical page
University of Wisconsin tropical cyclone page
NASA’s human space flight images page (try searching for “hurricane”)
NASA’s interactive image viewer
NOAA Environmental Visualization Program
NOAA Atlantic and Caribbean tropical satellite imagery
Radar images
National Weather Service radar mosaic (click on map)
National Center for Atmospheric Research radar page