DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

The science of extreme weather / The Teaching Company.

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2016].

©2016

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (221 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)

digital optical

video file DVD video

No place on Earth is sage from severe storms. Tour the world's wildest weather--and learn how to protect yourself from it--with a storm-chasing, prize-winning meteorologist.

Great courses: Science & Mathematics, Earth Sciences.

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Earth science.

Weather.

Storms.

Filmed lectures.

Educational films.

Nonfiction films.

Science films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Snodgrass, Eric R., speaker.

Teaching Company.

24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.

"Course No. 1771"

Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219).

Presenter, Professor Eric R. Snodgrass, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

DVD.

Closed captioned.

disc 1. Extreme weather is everywhere ; Temperature extremes and cold-air outbreaks ; Low pressure and Earth's high winds ; Extreme humidity, rain, and fog ; How radar reveals storms ; How satellites track severe weather -- disc 2. Anatomy of a lightning strike ; Lightning extremes and survival ; Thunderstorm formation and weather balloons ; Wind shear and severe thunderstorms ; Squall line thunderstorms and microbursts ; Supercell thunderstorms and hail -- disc 3. Tornadoes and their amazing winds ; Tornadogenesis and storm chasing ; Mountain windstorms and avalanches ; Ice storms: freezing rain takes over ; Epic snowfall and the lake effect ; Blizzards and winter cyclones -- disc 4. Flash floods and deadly moving water ; Drought, heat waves, and dust storms ; Where hurricanes hit ; The enormous structure of a hurricane ; Storm surge and hurricane intensification ; El Niño and cycles of extreme weather.

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