Surge and storm tide profiles are constructed to determine the maximum surge and storm tide heights of hurricanes and tropical storms for which sufficient tide data are available. In cases where less tide data are obtainable, interpolated and extrapolated profiles are used to cstimate the maximum heights. The relation of these heights to the central pressures of the storms is shown.

simply a success or failure. The story is more complex. David Meyer has captured that complexity in this study.A bush-league activist in the movement itself, Meyer retreats to a rigidly-adhered-to scholarly stance. He sets himself three goals in the work: (1) to chronicle the "meteoric life" of the movement, (2) to develop a theoretical framework for understanding other protest movements in the United States, and (3) to integrate analysis of peace movements into an understanding of the policy context in which they emerge. To accomplish these tasks, he draws with discernment from social science lit' erature and establishes a firm theoretical underpinning for his analysis of social movements and public policy processes. He then applies this framework critically to a detailed analysis of the politics of the freeze. The result is a readable, insightful case study of how the U.S. political system responds to such a challenge.Meyer posits that the initial approach of the Reagan administration to national security policy created "the political space for a dissident movement" (p. 8). Traditional peace activists took advantage of that opportunity and broadened the appeal to the U.S. populace, which was deeply frightened by the specter of nuclear war and the resultant nuclear winter and consequently assumed a citizen's responsibility for "the fate of the earth" (p. 131). In the response, the freeze movement posed challenges not only to the content of U.S. national security policy but also to the policy-making process itself. The magnitude of the response quickly pushed the movement into the midst of the existing mainstream political institutions-interest groups, Congress, mass media, and political parties. It is Meyer's contention that these institutions channeled the force of this groundswell movement and domesticated it into seeking more moderate ends, thereby leaving the policymaking process untouched. In his view the freeze invested a great deal of energy and political capital in the 1984 election and in doing so precipitated its own demise. After that election, the movement splintered. Meyer holds that this came about because "mainstream politics fragmented the movement, defusing its political impact through "marginalization, depoliticization, and cooptation" (p. 254).

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Charts based on variables selected from data available on the preceding evening are developed for forecasting radiation fog at Elkins, W. Va., for autumn and winter months. The variables found useful in forecasting this fog include gradient wind velocity, surface temperature, and dew point depression. One of the interesting findings is that on relatively clear nights easterly gradient winds are more favorable for the formation of radiation fog than are westerly gradient winds. This and other physical aspects of the formation of the fog are discussed.

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