Tropical cyclones are a frequent occurrence in the Pacific and can have devastating impacts on coastal communities, particularly in remote or isolated areas. However, most post-cyclone studies focus on damages and losses to infrastructure and services, and do not quantify the impact on fishers or ...
While emergency workers race against time to find the missing people, rehabilitate the damaged roads and bridges, and distribute food and clothes to thousands of displaced villagers, the government now focuses on the possible impact of super typhoon Kong-rey, which blew into the country early this...
We find that approximately 560 million people are exposed yearly and that the number of people exposed has increased across all cyclone intensities over the study period. The age distribution of those exposed has shifted away from children (less than 5 years old) and towards older people (...
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 ...
Cyclone Freddy, packing powerful winds and torrential rain, killed at least 70 people in Malawi and Mozambique on its return to southern Africa's mainland, authorities said Monday. In total, the storm has so far killed at least 97 people. ...
Over the past few decades, the world has seen substantial tropical cyclone (TC) damages, with the 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria entering the top-5 costliest Atlantic hurricanes ever. Calculating TC risk at a global scale, however, has proven dif
the impact of tropical cyclones is dependent on the structure and the areal extent of the wind field, especially in the case of storm surge. Other relevant measure includes the frequency, duration, precipitation and track of the cyclone. When tropical cyclone tracks poleward, they can become ext...
LILONGWE, March 13 (Xinhua) -- At least five people in Malawi have died of the impact of Tropical Cyclone Gombe that is moving towards the country from Mozambique, Malawi's Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) said Sunday. ...
(0400 GMT) as a category five cyclone, the highest rating on the scale. It then moved south and weakened to a category four, sparing the town's population centre from its most destructive winds. "This is a very dangerous system that will cause significant impact and is causing ...
Tropical cyclone (TC) impacts are expected to worsen under continued global warming and socio-economic development. Here we combine TC simulations with an impact model to quantify country-level population exposure to TC winds for different magnitudes of global mean surface temperature increase and futur...