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    • 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.
    • Links:Streaming video

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    • 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:Visual Material
    • 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);
    • Subjects:Atmosphere.
      Earth sciences.
      Meteorology.
      Weather.
    • Genre/Form:Internet videos.
    • Also listed under:Infobase, film distributor.
      PBS (Firm)
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14146155