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Killer Hurricanes
Title
Killer Hurricanes / PBS.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : PBS, [2017]
Distribution
New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (1 video file (52 min., 23 sec)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally released by PBS, 2017.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 04, 2018.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Killer Hurricanes examines an 18th-century, Caribbean superstorm that killed 22,000, the highest known death toll of any single weather event. To reconstruct its epic scale and investigate what made it so devastating, NOVA joins historians and storm sleuths as theyreconstruct the event usingeyewitness accounts, old ruins, and computer simulations.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 - 12, Academic/AP
Contents
Introduction: Killer Hurricanes (1:58); Irma and Maria (3:09); Great Hurricane Documented (4:05); Hurricane Irma Formation (2:23); Great Hurricane of 1780 (5:52); Monster Hurricane Formation (1:43); Categorizing Hurricanes (2:12); Storm Surge (4:18); Reconstructing the Storm (2:17); Climate Change and Hurricane Patterns (6:38); Ocean Surface Temperature (6:35); Where Will Future Hurricanes Strike? (5:30); Eastern Seaboard Vulnerability (5:05); Credits: Killer Hurricanes (0:32);
Videorecording number
166847 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Infobase, film distributor.
PBS (Firm)
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