Encyclopedia Titanica

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ICEBERG RISK IN THE TITANIC YEAR OF 1912: WAS IT EXCEPTIONAL?
Weather
Grant R. Bigg and David J. Wilton
Iceberg conditions and climatic factors that may have contributed to the Titanic disaster.
Weatherwise
Megan E. Linkin
Weather played a critical role in the Titanic tragedy, with 1912’s unusual wind patterns bringing icebergs southward, compounded by calm seas at the disaster’s time.
A POSSIBLE ROLE OF SPACE WEATHER IN THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE TITANIC DISASTER
Weather
Mila Zinkova
How space weather may have impacted the Titanic disaster, specifically if a geomagnetic storm influenced navigation, communication, and possibly the collision itself.
THE SINKING OF THE R.M.S. TITANIC: A CASE STUDY IN THERMAL INVERSION AND ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION PHENOMENA
The Physics Teacher
Gregory A. DiLisi
How atmospheric conditions and refractive phenomena caused by a thermal inversion may have played a critical role in obscuring the iceberg from the ship’s lookouts.

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