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Written by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Rapporteur of Weather and Climate Extremes, this book addresses the reality of extreme weather-how does it occur; how do we measure it; and what does it mean for our future.
List of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS - Extreme Weather, who cares?
Interlude 1: Introducing Freaks of the Storm - Enter the WMO
Interlude 2: Freaks of Political Weather - Operational Parameters: Choosing the best of the best
Interlude 3: Weather Spies
Interlude 4: Freaks of the Heat - The Hottest Recorded Temperature in the World, Part 2
Interlude 5: More Freaks of the Heat - The Highest Wind Ever Recorded
Interlude 6: Freaks of the Wind
Interlude 7: Freaks of Rain-making - The Highest Pressures Ever Recorded-and those pesky calculations
Interlude 8: Freak of Pressure
Interlude 9: Freaks of Hail - Tropical Cyclones, the planet's strongest storms
Interlude 12: Freaks of Hurricanes - Tornadoes, "Nature's Ultimate Windstorms"
Interlude 11: Freaks of Tornadoes - Lightning ... and Megalightning
Interlude 12: Freaks of Lightning
Interlude 13: Safety Freaks - The Antarctic Region
Interlude 14: Freaks of the Antarctic
- Getting the Word Out
Interlude 15: Freaks of the Media - The Future!
Index
About the author
Randy Cerveny is a President's Professor in Geographical Sciences who specializes in weather and climate at Arizona State University. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Nebraska in 1987, has studied weather around the world, and has stood on all seven continents. His research has ranged from studying the weather associated with prison escapes to weather of the far future. His research has garnered the attention of the BBC, CNN, ABC News, NPR and others. He was an expert for the Weather Channel and currently appears on the National Geographic's show
What on Earth? His first book,
Freaks of the Storm, was published in 2006 while his second book,
Weather's Greatest Mysteries Solved!, was published in 2009. Since 2007 he has served as the World Meteorological Organization's Rapporteur of Weather and Climate Extremes, the person in charge of assessing and validating world extremes, such as world's hottest temperature.
Summary
Written by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Rapporteur of Weather and Climate Extremes, this book addresses the reality of extreme weather—how does it occur; how do we measure it; and what does it mean for our future.
