Recent Hurricane Research - Climate, Dynamics, and Societal Impacts

Lupo, Anthony Rocco

Recent Hurricane Research - Climate, Dynamics, and Societal Impacts

Edited by Anthony Rocco Lupo

Abstract: This book represents recent research on tropical cyclones and their impact, and a wide range of topics are covered. An updated global climatology is presented, including the global occurrence of tropical cyclones and the terrestrial factors that may contribute to the variability and long-term trends in their occurrence. Research also examines long term trends in tropical cyclone occurrences and intensity as related to solar activity, while other research discusses the impact climate change may have on these storms. The dynamics and structure of tropical cyclones are studied, with traditional diagnostics employed to examine these as well as more modern approaches in examining their thermodynamics. The book aptly demonstrates how new research into short-range forecasting of tropical cyclone tracks and intensities using satellite information has led to significant improvements. In looking at societal and ecological risks, and damage assessment, authors investigate the use of technology for anticipating, and later evaluating, the amount of damage that is done to human society, watersheds, and forests by land-falling storms. The economic and ecological vulnerability of coastal regions are also studied and are supported by case studies which examine the potential hazards related to the evacuation of populated areas, including medical facilities. These studies provide decision makers with a potential basis for developing improved evacuation techniques.

JEL-codes: Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-953-307-238-8
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Air-sea Interaction under Hurricane Wind Conditions: Yuliya Troitskaya, Daniil Sergeev, Alexander Kandaurov and Vasily Kazakov
Analysis of Tropical Cyclones in the South China Sea and Bay of Bengal during Monsoon Season: Dongxiao Wang, Weiwei Li and Lei Yang
Barotropic Aspects of Hurricane Structural and Intensity Variability: Eric Hendricks, Hung-Chi Kuo, Melinda Peng and Daniel Hodyss
Case Studies and Lessons Learned in Chemical Emergencies Related to Hurricanes: Perri Ruckart and Maureen Orr
Estimating the Vulnerability of U.S. Coastal Areas to Hurricane Damage: Jeffrey Pompe and Jennifer Haluska
Factors Associated with Hurricane Evacuation in North Carolina: Jennifer Horney, Pia MacDonald, Philip Berke, Marieke Van Willigen and Jay Scott Kaufman
Formation of Gravitational Hurricanes Simulated by Numerical Gravitational Gas Dynamics Model: Andrei Pavlov
Geospatial Technique for Rapid Delineation of Potential Hurricane Damage: William Cooke, John Rodgers and Katarzyna Grala
How Vertical Wind Shear Affects Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change: An Overview: Levi Thatcher and Zhaoxia Pu
Hurricane Evacuations of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston: Marc Oliver Maybauer, Michael Megna, Sven Asmussen and Dirk Manfred Maybauer
Hurricane Georges Accelerated Litterfall Fluxes of a 26 yr-old Novel Secondary Forest in Puerto Rico: Ariel E. Lugo, Ariel Lugo, Carlos Dominguez Cristobal and Noemi Mendez
Hurricane Intensity, Sea Surface Temperature, and Stochastic Variation: Kenneth T. Bogen, Larry Fischer and Edwin Jones
Hurricane-Induced Phytoplankton Blooms: Satellite Observations and Numerical Model Simulations: Menghua Wang, Xiaoming Liu and Wei Shi
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - Effects on Children's Healthcare: Robert Gensure and Tulasi Ponnapakkam
Improvements of Hurricane Forecast with Vortex Initialization using WRF Variational (WRF-Var) Data Assimilation: Qingnong Xiao
Improving Hurricane Intensity Forecasting through Data Assimilation: Environmental Conditions Versus the Vortex Initialization: Zhaoxia Pu
Influence of Cosmophysical Phenomena and African Dust on Hurricanes Genesis: Jorge Perez-Peraza
Modelling Hurricane Related Hazards and Risk through GIS for Early Warning Systems: Andrea Taramelli, Massimiliano Pasqui, Laura Melelli, Monia Santini and Alessandro Sorichetta
Regional Increases in Landfall Frequency and Intensity of Atlantic Hurricanes in a Stochastic Model Forecast: Jessica Turner, Katie Coughlin and Enrica Bellone
Segmentation Methods for Synthetic Aperture Radar: Shuang Wang, Hua Zhong, Bo Chen, Licheng Jiao and Fang Liu
Simulation of Tropical Cyclones Using Spectral Bin Microphysics: Alexander Khain and Barry Lynn
Statistical Techniques for Exploring Possibly Increasing Trend of Hurricane Activity: Jesper Ryden
Storm Surge: Physical Processes and an Impact Scale: Hal Needham and Barry Keim
Studies of the Hurricane Evolution Based on Modern Thermodynamics: Chongjian Liu, Ying Liu, Zhexian Luo, Xiaotu Lei, Donghai Wang and Xiaogang Zhou
The Complexity of Catastrophic Wind Impacts on Temperate Forests: Weimin Xi and Robert Peet
The Effects of Space Weather on Hurricane Activity: Blanca Mendoza
The Impact of Hurricanes on the Weather of Western Europe: Kieran Richard Hickey
The Impact of Oceanic Heat Content on the Rapid Intensification of Atlantic Hurricanes: Kevin Law
The Interannual and Interdecadal Variability in Hurricane Activity: Anthony Rocco Lupo
The Role of Non-Recurring Congestion in Massive Hurricane Evacuation Events: Daniel Fonseca, Gary Moynihan and Huston Fernandes
Using Regional-scale Pre- and Post Hurricane Katrina Lidar for Monitoring and Modeling: Jason Stoker, D. Phil Turnipseed and K. Van Wilson

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DOI: 10.5772/592

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