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This ringbound book and DVD-ROM disc set provides the ultimate comprehensive guide to hurricanes and tropical cyclones with an extraordinary collection of reports, studies, and documents with history, track maps, research papers, images, and much more. The DVD-ROM provides the most comprehensive collection of official documents available on hurricanes and tropical cyclones. This detailed material is heavily illustrated with color photographs, drawings, tables, and charts. The disc contains over 4 gigabytes of material, and over 55,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat software. There are over 1000 documents and over 420 image files. Ringbound Book: The book includes reproductions of three NHC reports: The Deadliest, Costliest, Most Intense U.S. Tropical Cyclones from 1851 to 2006 and other Frequently Requested Hurricane Facts by Blake, Rappaport, Landsea (2007); National Hurricane Center Product Description Document: A User's Guide to Hurricane Products (February 2010); Tropical Cyclone Report on Katrina, August 23-30, 2005, by Knabb, Rhome. The User's Guide covers all NHC products, including: Tropical Cyclone Public Advisory, Forecast Advisory, Discussion, Surface Wind Speed Probabilities, Updates, Position Estimate, Watch Warning Product, Aviation Tropical Cyclone Advisory, Outlook, Graphical Products, and Non-Operational Products. The Factbook notes: "Low hurricane experience levels... in combination with continued building along the coast, will lead to dangerous problems for many areas... disastrous loss of life is inevitable in the future." There is full coverage of the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC), NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) Hurricane Research Division, and the Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT) program. There are thorough histories of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic ocean, TC reports for individual storms, forecast verifications by year from 1968 to 2009, studies about improving wind probabilities, oceanic