Introduction Various disasters like earthquake‚ landslides‚ volcanic eruptions‚ fires‚ flood and cyclones are natural hazards that kill thousands of people and destroy billions of dollars of habitat and property each year. The rapid growth of the world’s population and its increased concentration often in hazardous environment has escalated both the frequency and severity of natural disasters. With the tropical climate and unstable land forms‚ coupled with deforestation‚ unplanned growth proliferation
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Typhoon A Typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops in the western part of the North Pacific Ocean between 180° and 100°E. This region is referred to as the northwest Pacific basin. PAGASA Philippine Atmospheric‚ Geophysical‚ & Astronomical Services Administration. Government agency for weather forecasting‚ flood control‚ astronomical observations‚ and time service. TROPICAL CYCLONE A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center‚ strong
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The Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1‚ 1999‚[8] with the first tropical cyclone developing on June 11.[9] It was an above average season in which 16 tropical cyclones formed.[10][11][12][13] Twelve depressions attained tropical storm status and eight of these became a hurricane. Five hurricanes further intensified into major hurricanes.[10] The season featured a record-breaking five Category 4 hurricanes‚[14] later tied in 2005.[15] A persistent La Niña that developed during the
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the damages it can cause. Many have heard of the devastation hurricanes have inflected‚ but do we know how they form and the process in which they become so powerful? According to National Hurricane Center (2014) a hurricane is defined as‚ "A tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind (using the U.S. 1-minute average) is 64 kt (74 mph or 119 km/hr) or more”. Hurricanes are born 5°-15° latitude north and south of the equator‚ in the tropics. For a Hurricane to form and endure there
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climate change. This paper discusses the possible impacts of climate change in Bangladesh through tropical cyclones‚ storm surges‚ coastal erosion and back water effect. The possible increase in cyclone frequency in the Bay of Bengal‚ lying south of Bangladesh‚ due to climate change is looked at by analyzing the cyclone data for 119 yr. Both qualitative and quantitative discussions are made on cyclone intensity increase for a sea surface temperature rise of 2 and 4°C. Different scenarios of storm
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Lee Chapman October 26‚ 2009 Essay Assignment GE-253 Hurricanes Have you ever heard tropical storms pushing winds up to 200 mph and causing destruction everywhere? A true beast of nature we call a hurricane. These hurricanes can show up at any time to make a mess of things. To fully understand hurricanes we have to peer into the history‚ calculate the physics‚ plot the storm’s movements and actions‚ respect the power of such storms‚ and prepare ourselves if a storm is headed our way. A lot of
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$65.6 billion. Affected areas by this hurricane expanded to wide range. This is Hurricane Sandy when it was near peak intensity on October 25. Firstly what is the hurricane? It is an intense tropical depression with a very strong rainstorm. Hurricane has the other different names‚ typhoon and cyclone‚ but these don’t have any of differences in terms of their characters‚ and the difference is only where it takes place. A hurricane is classified to five levels according to Saffir–Simpson hurricane
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Hurricane Gilbert remains one of the largest tropical cyclones to ever hit the US eastern seaboard and brought widespread destruction to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. In total‚ 15 different countries were affected by the storm which hit the area in early September 1988. The hurricane became famous for the great difficulty it caused weather forecasters due to its erratic movement‚ the number of predicted paths it could take and its constantly fluctuating intensity. Luckily it was an occasion
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resource availability and by the entitlement of individuals and groups to call on these resources. We illustrate the application of this approach through the results of field research in coastal Vietnam‚ highlighting shifting patterns of vulnerability to tropical storm impacts at the household- and community-level in response to the current process of economic renovation and drawing conclusions concerning means of supporting the adaptive response to climate stress. Four priorities for action are identified
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affected by floods. In 2013‚ a flood wasted over parts of Queensland and New South Wales. Almost 7‚500 residents of Bundaberg and patients at the Bundaberg Hospital had to evacuate because of widespread flooding and the surrounding suburbs (2013 Tropical Cyclone Oswald‚ n.d). Schools were closed; hospitals were filled with sick people; and water and power supplies were interrupted. It usually takes years for affected community to go back to normal from floods. Previously‚ people saw that floods were
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