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The power of a hurricane: An example of reckless driving on the information superhighway
Author(s) -
Emanuel Kerry A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/j.1477-8696.1999.tb06435.x
Subject(s) - information superhighway , citation , power (physics) , library science , operations research , history , computer science , world wide web , engineering , the internet , physics , quantum mechanics
One of the more problematic tasks of the research scientist is to convey to the public in an accurate but stimulating way the power and beauty of natural phenomena. The World Wide Web provides a new means to do this, and increasingly is used as a resource for scientific information by everyone from school children to professional scientists. How accurate is the information that is available on the Web? Is most of the information traceable to its source? As a very small experiment designed to’address these issues, the author asked students in his tropical meteorology class to investigate how the power of a hurricane is being conveyed to the public via the Web. This article describes the surprising result.