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El Niño in history : storming through the ages / César N. Caviedes.

Von: Caviedes, César, 1936- [author.]Materialtyp: TextTextSprache: Englisch Reihen: ACLS Humanities E-BookVerlag: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2001]Copyright-Datum: ©2001Beschreibung: xiv, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), charts, maps ; 24 cmInhaltstyp: Text Medientyp: Computermedien Datenträgertyp: Online ResourceSchlagwörter: El Niño Current -- Environmental aspects | La Niña Current -- Environmental aspects | El Niño Current -- Environmental aspects | La Niña Current -- Environmental aspects | El Niño, Courant -- Aspect de l'environnement | La Niña, Courant -- Aspect de l'environnement | | | Pacific Ocean -- El Niño Current | Pacific Ocean -- La Niña Current | | | | | | | Weather | Weather | Temps (Météorologie) | weather | Weather | El-Niño-Phänomen | Geschichte | Umweltveränderung | Wetter | El Niño | WetterGenre/Form: Online-Ressourcen: Volltext
Inhalte:
Grasping the basic concepts -- Searching for past El Niños -- Tracing early occurrences -- Raging seas of El Niño -- Droughts in the tropics -- Altered states: from El Niño to La Niña -- Imprints of El Niño in world history -- Traces in the misty past -- Where else to look?
Rezension: "Cesar Caviedes provides the first comprehensive historical account of El Nino, the fascinating and disruptive weather phenomenon that has affected weather cycles all over the globe for thousands of years. Combining scientific accuracy with readable presentation, he brings together all existing information, references, and clues about past El Nino occurrences and their impact on political, military, social, economic, and environmental history. This sweeping demonstration of the impact of climatic fluctuation on human history will be fascinating to the scientific community as well as to the general public."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index.

Grasping the basic concepts -- Searching for past El Niños -- Tracing early occurrences -- Raging seas of El Niño -- Droughts in the tropics -- Altered states: from El Niño to La Niña -- Imprints of El Niño in world history -- Traces in the misty past -- Where else to look?

"Cesar Caviedes provides the first comprehensive historical account of El Nino, the fascinating and disruptive weather phenomenon that has affected weather cycles all over the globe for thousands of years. Combining scientific accuracy with readable presentation, he brings together all existing information, references, and clues about past El Nino occurrences and their impact on political, military, social, economic, and environmental history. This sweeping demonstration of the impact of climatic fluctuation on human history will be fascinating to the scientific community as well as to the general public."--Jacket.

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