We conducted a study to assess the social and economic effects of Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston on mud crab fishers in Bua Province, Fiji. The study methodology was one-on-one surveys with mud crab fishers, mostly women, in 16 villages who had previously participated in a 2015 value ...
Yet, we do not know how many people live on deltas and their exposure to flooding. Using a new global dataset, we show that 339 million people lived on river deltas in 2017 and 89% of those people live in the same latitudinal zone as most tropical cyclone activity. We calculate that ...
Every year, during the pre-monsoon season, tropical storms form in the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and hit the eastern coast of India, affecting the lives of people living in the coastal region. On 3 May 2019, deadly cyclone Fani impacted coastal areas of Odisha (eastern province) causing large ...
People leaving their homes in the flooded section of Praia Nova, Beira, Mozambique in the wake of tropical cyclone Idai. Denis Onyodi/ IFRC handout Historically, nine storms that had reached tropical cyclone intensity made landfall on Mozambique. A larger number of weaker tropical systems, includ...
Mortality caused by tropical cyclones in the United States A large-scale evaluation of the long-term effects of tropical cyclones on human mortality in the contiguous United States estimates that the average tropical cyclone results in 7,000–11,000 excess deaths, far exceeding previous estimates....
The passage of the cyclone has left some moist conditions that will cause scattered rain on Wednesday with much improved weather expected from Thursday. Fiji's Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama said the precautionary measures that were put in place in anticipation of Tropical Cyclone Tomas ...
COLOMBO, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Tropical cyclone Fani will not have major impacts on Sri Lanka in the coming days, despite over 800,000 people in India's east coast being evacuated, Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Center (DMC) said here Friday. ...
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 ...
TheImpactofHorizontalResolutionontheCNOP andonItsIdentifiedSensitiveAreasfor TropicalCyclonePredictions ZHOUFeifan (周菲凡)andMUMu。(穆穆) LaboratoryofCloud—PrecipitationPhysicsandSevereStorms, InstituteofAtmosphericPhysics,ChineseAcademyofSciences,Beijing100029 ...
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