The storms are called hurricanes when they happen in the North Atlantic, central North Pacific and eastern North Pacific oceans, according to NOAA. Tropical cyclones whose wind speeds and locations meet the criteria to be classified as hurricanes are categorized further using theSaffir-Simpson Hurrica...
Typhoons form in the equatorial waters of the Pacific and move toward Asia. Cyclones form to the east of Africa or the northwest of Australia. Hurricanes develop in the Caribbean region of the Atlantic Ocean or in the Pacific to the west of Central America. Interestingly, typhoons are not giv...
HurricanesOKEONOKINAWAUrbanization gradientTwo major human-caused threats to ecosystems are habitat modification and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.To study the combined effect of these threats,the authors used acoustic monitoring of bats along a habitat modification gradient...
Fig. 4: Spatial distributions of climatological seasonal mean total precipitation with its difference (left) and 50 m depth-mean salinity-induced squared buoyancy frequency (N2) and its difference (right) over the North Equatorial Current. Two-month seasonal mean precipitation (a) August-September...
The simulated typhoon track in the real case deflected toward the south when it passed by Taiwan Island, but the difference was relatively small. Typhoon Maria passed the northern side of Taiwan Island and made landfall in Fujian Province from 12:00 on 10 July to 12:00 on 11 July. To ...