Here alarming changes are reported in light of erratic monsoons, increasing sea levels, salinity, frequent cyclones and coastal flooding, vanishing islands, and socio-economic crisis; leading to growing numbers of ecological refugees. It is one of the most cyclone prone areas in the world. Though...
Tropical cyclones form over oceans of the world except in the South The Atlantic Ocean and in the South Eastern Pacific. How do cyclones occur? Cyclones develop over warm seas near the equator. Air heated by the sun rises very swiftly, which creates areas of very low pressure. As the warm...
Such a combination of high winds and water makes cyclones a serious hazard for coastal areas in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Every year during the late summer months (July–September in the Northern Hemisphere and January–March in the Southern Hemisphere), cyclones strike regions...
In contrast with the northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere basins show much smaller increasing trends due to slight variations of the environmental conditions in that part of the world. These results have important implications in understanding TC rainfall mechanisms and evaluating current climate models...
An additional factor is included for tropical cyclone-related losses to account for the influence of enhanced building standards in tropical cyclone-prone areas since the early 1980s, standards that have markedly reduced the vulnerability of newer construction. Insured losses often comprise about 50% ...
are complicated as reliable TC records are scarce. Additionally, only a small number of the TCs make landfall every year3, and when they do, a relatively small stretch of coastline is affected4. The resulting impacts are higher in urban areas than in rural or uninhabited regions, yielding a...
Surge observations that are identified in this review are added to SURGEDAT, a global storm surge database [Needham et al.,2013]. This archive provides the location and height of peak storm surge observations around the world since 1880. An interactive Web map of these data is available atht...
These areas are prone to flooding during storm events such as hurricanes Eta and Iota in 2020. A review of the geological, environmental and the socio-economic situation of the island, and the record of tropical cyclones since 1911, shows why the local population has become increasingly ...
TC changes from the historical to future climate for the study area. The probability of a heatwave, especially a long-lasting one, following a TC is quite small for the historical climate, which is consistent with the observation that TC-heatwave hazards have affected only ~1000 people world...
Since then, several methodologies have been adopted for the seasonal TC activity forecast in different TC-prone areas of the world, such as Poisson regression models (Elsner and Schmertmann, 1993; Lehmiller et al., 1997; Kim et al., 2010), Bayesian regression models (Elsner and Jagger, ...