Tropical cycloneOmanArabian PeninsulaTropical cyclones are among the most detrimental hazards to the environment, societies, and economies, each year affecting millions of people and resulting in substantial casualties and material destructions in coastal communities. In this context, maritime cultural ...
A Kumar,P Sharma,S Joshi - 《Journal of Agricultural Science & Technology》 被引量: 12发表: 2016年 At what cost? Mapping where natural perils impact economic growth and communities Australia is at growing risk from a range of natural disasters including tropical cyclones, bushfires, storms and...
The impact of Tropical Cyclone Larry on bird communities in fragments of the endangered rainforest Type 5b Bird surveys were conducted to assess the impact of a severe cyclone on bird communities in three fragments of the endangered rainforest Type 5b on the Ath... Freeman,AND,Pias,... - ...
Yet a systematic analysis of post-disaster healthcare utilization and outcomes for severe weather and climate disasters, as tracked by the US government, is lacking. Following exposure to 42 US billion-dollar weather disasters (severe storm, flood, flood/severe storm, tropical cyclone and winter ...
Climate change is projected to cause considerable pressure on our environment and communities. In particular, an increase in flooding and extreme erosion events is foreseeable as a result of an anticipated increase in the frequency and severity of storms. In the absence of timely and strategic inter...
4. A primary extreme event of concern for coastal systems throughout lower and mid-latitude regions is tropical cyclones. There are numerous examples of the devastating impacts these storms have had on coastal communities4, yet advances in intensity forecasts have been limited5. This is ...
Compounding impacts of COVID-19, cyclone and price crash on vanilla farmers' food security and natural resource use The intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic with other crises can amplify vulnerabilities and push communities further into poverty. In low-income countries,... Rakoto Harison, Henint...
Considering that the frequency of slow-moving tropical cyclones capable of delivering devastating rainfall may be increasing, then one can expect that delivery of Hg and other contaminants from the archived sediment within urbanized estuaries will increase and that what happened during Harvey is a ...
A weather system such as a tropical cyclone can have an extreme impact, depending on where and when it approaches landfall, even if the specific cyclone is not extreme relative to other tropical cyclones. Conversely, not all extremes necessarily lead to serious impacts. [3.1] Many weather and ...
Heatwaves are becoming more frequent under climate change and can lead to thousands of excess deaths. Adaptation to extreme weather events often occurs in response to an event, with communities learning fast following unexpectedly impactful events. Using