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Author Jeffrey, Gary.

Title Hurricane hunters & tornado chasers / Gary Jeffrey ; illustrated by Gianluca Garofoalo.

Imprint New York : Rosen Publishing, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Meadowlark Non-Fiction  551.55 JEF    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description 48 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm
Series Graphic careers
Note Includes glossary.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p 47) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p.47) and index.
Contents Hurricane hunters -- Tornado chasers -- Jeffrey Masters, flight director, Hurricane Hunter 42 -- Roger Edwards, tornado chaser, National Weather Service -- Tim Samaras, tornado chaser -- How to become a storm chaser.
Summary This book allows the reader to go behind the scenes with two meteorologists, who gathered information during Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and the tornado outbreak in Oklahoma in 1999, and with an electrical engineer, who designed a probe to accurately record the environment inside a twister.
Audience 5678 Childrens Plus, Inc.
1060 Lexile.
Y Fountas and Pinnell.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.7 0.5 121020.
Subject Edwards, Roger -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Masters, Jeffrey -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Samaras, Tim -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Aeronautics in meteorology -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Meteorologists -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Occupations -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Storms -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Added Author Garofoalo, Gianluca, ill.
Added Title Hurricane hunters and tornado chasers
Hurricane hunters and tornado chasers
ISBN 1404214585
1404214593 (pbk.)
1404214798
9781404214583
9781404214590 (pbk.)
9781404214798 (set)

 
    
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