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9 Rigveda, canto 186.
10 Guy de Maupassant, as quoted in Southern Winds, pp. 17, 87.
I1 Conrad, Typhoon, pp. 84,96.
12 As quoted in Southern Winds, p. 107.
13 Joyce Boro on the BBC's weather channel, part of their Weather in Literature background server.
14 Smith, Southern Winds, p. 194.
15 Ibid.,p. 85.
16 A Narrative of Travels in North Africa in the Years 1818, lg, and 20, by Captain G. F. Lyon, London i82i,p. 94.
17 Southern Winds, p. 113.
18 Quoted in Southern Winds, p. 86.
19 Joseph d'Agnese, "Why Has Our Weather Gone Wild," Discover, June 2000.
20 DeBlieu, Wind, p. 180. Excerpts from Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth and the Land, by Jan DeBlieu, copyright 1998 by Jan DeBlieu, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
21 Ibid.,p. 181.
22 D'Agnese, "Why Has Our Weather Gone Wild" (see note 19, above).
23 Quoted in DeBlieu, Wind, p. 181.
24 Felicity James, on the BBC's weather channel, from her article, "Weather in Literature: The Modern Novel."
CHAPTER TWO
Wind's Great Theater
Richard Fortey's The Earth:An Intimate History is a paleogeographic look at the earth from the inside out, and wonderfully well written. Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm is a retelling of the hurricane that all but destroyed Galveston, Texas, at the turn of the twentieth century; he is particularly good on the politics of the weather service at the time.
1 Fens Tian et al, "A Hydrogen-rich Early Earth Atmosphere," Science, May 13, 2005, p. 1014.
2 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, 14:1155.
3 Fortey, The Earth, pp. 359-61, 366.
4 Newton, Encyclopedia of Air, p. 17.
5 Larson, Isaac's Storm, p. 38.
6 This history of early chemistry is from a variety of sources. Useful and informative was the chemistry Web site operated by the University of Pennsylvania. www.upenn.edu.
7 Michael Klesius, "Altitude and the Death Zone," National Geographic, May 2003.
8 Dr. James L. Green, "Magnetosphere," www.ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education.
CHAPTER THREE
The Search for Understanding
Scott Huler's Defining the Wind is a book calculated to appeal to all of us in the writing trade; Huler was a copy editor who became obsessed with Beaufort's mastery of imagery, and it led him to a larger investigation of wind measurement technology. Hurricane Watch, by the former director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Dr. Bob Sheets, and his collaborator, Jack Williams, is the best source for information on tropical cyclones. Jim Carrier's The Ship and the Storm is the story of the fatal encounter between Hurricane Mitch and the charter tall ship Fantome.
1 Quoted in Larson, Isaac's Storm, p. 38.
2 DeBlieu, Wind, and many others.
3 Quoted in DeBlieu, Wind, p. 32.
4 Smith, Southern Winds, p. 169.
5 Pliny, Natural History, book 2, c xlvi.
6 Smith, Southern Winds, p. 29.
7 Ibid.,p. 173.
8 Huler, Defining the Wind, p. 82. From Defining the Wind, by Scott Huler, copyright 2004 by Scott Huler, used by permission of Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc.
9 DeBlieu, Wind, p. 32.
10 "Anecdotes from Huler, Defining the Wind, pp. 62, 64—65.
11 Larson, Isaac's Storm, p. 44.
12 Huler, Defining the Wind, pp. 81, 85.
13 Quoted in Sheets, Hurricane Watch, p. 12. From Hurricane Watch by Bob Sheets and Jack Williams, copyright 2001 by Jack Williams and Bob Sheets, used by permission of Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
14 Huler, Defining the Wind, p. 65.
15 Huler, Defining the Wind, p. 84.
16 Sheets, Hurricane Watch, pp. 13,14.
17 DeBheu, Wind, p. 61.
18 Carrier, The Ship and the Storm, p. 148.
19 Typhoon, p. 77.
2()Sheets, Hurricane Watch, Larson, Isaac's Storm, and many others.
CHAPTER FOUR
Wind's Intricate Patterns
This chapter owes a debt to the Environment Canada meteorological