Hurricanes: The Greatest Storms on Earth

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published by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This NASA website contains information about hurricanes and describes how they form, intensify, and then weaken. The site explains the physics of hurricane formation and also the mechanisms that intensify hurricanes so rapidly. Images, diagrams, and charts provide supplementary material.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Hurricanes

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Fluid Mechanics - General Modern Physics Other Sciences - Geoscience - None	- High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material

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Access Rights:: Free access
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Courtesy of:: NASA
Keywords:: El Niño , Global warming, Katrina, Tropical Cyclone, Tropical depression, Water temperature Hurricane
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created July 5, 2007 by Andrew Coughlin
Record Updated:: August 18, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: March 1, 2010
Other Collections:: The PSRC

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Hurricanes: The Greatest Storms on Earth. Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, March 1, 2010. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Hurricanes (accessed 12 December 2024).

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