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Hydrometeorological events are responsible for more than 99% of casualties and economic losses due to natural disasters in the Caribbean region in the last three decades. The brunt of these was due to floods and storms.Twelve island states and three coastal territories comprise a subset of Caribbean countries known as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), an entity established in 1973 with the mandate to promote economic integration and cooperation among ils members, to ensure that the benejits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy. The member countries are Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haïti, Jamaica, Monserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago.We conducted an ecological study to assess risk factors associated with deaths due to floods and storms in CARICOM nations for the period 1980 to 2012. Mortality dichotomized as deaths (1) versus no deaths (0) was the outcome variable while a number of biophysical and social vulnerability proxy indicators were investigated as potential explanatory variables. We also divided the period of study into three sub-periods and investigated this temporalcomponent as an additional explanatory variable. Statistical analysis was conducted in R Version 3.1.0 and we employed a rigorous statistical algorithm entailing tests of normality and qq-plots; assessment of multi-collinearit y based on variance inflation factors and a generalized logistic regression mode! with a quasi-binomial distribution for our bivariate and multivariate regression analysis.We found statistically significant associations between deaths and Agricultural Land (% of land area)and Urban Population (% of total). Coefficients were positive implying that an increase in those variables was associated with deaths in a given event. We also found a statistically significant association 2000-2012 compared to 1980-1989 implying that lethal disasters were more likely in the former time period than the latter. Odds ratios were relatively small; our confidence intervals did not cross the null value and were narrow.The scope of the study was somewhat limited by data availability and the lack of suitable denominators to establish the population at risk with which to calculate mortality rates and established proxies to measure the vulnerability constructs. Limitations notwithstanding we believe that this study is a first step to elucidate factors that may be important for consideration among the CARICOM member countries. Although we do not purport to have covered all the potential factors, we believe that these findings can be used to assist in the prioritization of action as relates to DRR/DRM and certainly, in the setting of the regional research agenda as relates to DRR/DRM.The need for more evidence is an ever-burgeoning need in this field and includes risk analyses, epidemiological studies, trend analyses, as well as the triangulation of results from studies employing different methodologies. Additionally, more robust stati stical models to help address the challenges of conducting disaster research would also be beneficial.
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Cyclones. --- Cyclonic storms --- Lows (Meteorology) --- Storms
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Cyclones --- Cyclonic storms --- Lows (Meteorology) --- Storms
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Cyclones --- Tropics --- Cyclonic storms --- Lows (Meteorology) --- Storms --- Equatorial regions --- Equatorial zones --- Subtropical regions --- Subtropics --- Tropical regions --- Tropical zones --- Earth (Planet)
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Typhoons with unusual tracks are difficult to forecast with respect to whether, when, and where typhoon turning occurs based on traditional synoptic charts and numerical weather forecast model products. This typhoon turning atlas provides an additional tool to deal with the typhoon turning question by using a physical decomposition method together with thousands of plots. In particular, this atlas provides important information of 322 historical typhoons that occurred in the past three decades and demonstrates how they were influenced respectively. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Variable Decomp
Decomposition method. --- Typhoons --- Cyclones --- Cyclonic storms --- Lows (Meteorology) --- Storms --- Method, Decomposition --- Operations research --- Programming (Mathematics) --- System analysis --- Tracks --- Forecasting.
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"Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster relief to private companies that turned the humanitarian work of recovery into lucrative business. These enterprises profited from the very suffering that they failed to ameliorate, producing a second-order disaster that exacerbated inequalities based on race and class and leaving residents to rebuild almost entirely on their own. Filled with the often desperate voices of residents who returned to New Orleans, Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith describes the human toll of disaster capitalism and the affect economy it has produced. While for-profit companies delayed delivery of federal resources to returning residents, faith-based and nonprofit groups stepped in to rebuild, compelled by the moral pull of charity and the emotional rewards of volunteer labor. Adams traces the success of charity efforts, even while noting an irony of neoliberalism, which encourages the very same for-profit companies to exploit these charities as another market opportunity. In so doing, the companies profit not once but twice on disaster."--Publisher's website.
Disaster relief --- Emergency management --- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 --- Privatization --- Social justice --- Cyclonic Storms --- Disasters --- Public Policy --- Relief Work --- Survivors --- Government policy --- History --- Government policy --- Government policy --- Hurricane Katrina (2005) --- Louisiana.
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This book deals with recent advances in our understanding and prediction of tropical cyclogenesis, intensification and movement as well as landfall processes like heavy rainfall, gale wind and storm surge based on the latest observational and numerical weather prediction (NWP) modeling platforms. It also includes tropical cyclone (TC) management issues like early warning systems, recent high impact TC events, disaster preparedness, assessment of risk and vulnerability including construction, archiving and retrieval of the best tracking and historical data sets, policy decision etc., in view of recent findings on climate change aspects and their impact on TC activity. The chapters are authored by leading experts, both from research and operational environments. This book is relevant to cyclone forecasters and researchers, managers, policy makers, graduate and undergraduate students. It intends to stimulate thinking and hence further research in the field of TCs and climate change, especially over the Indian Ocean region and provides high-quality reference materials for all the users mentioned above for the management of TCs over this region.
Cyclone forecasting --- Cyclones --- Cyclonic storms --- Forecasting, Cyclone --- Forecasting --- Earth sciences. --- Meteorology. --- Oceanography. --- Natural disasters. --- Coasts. --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Earth Sciences. --- Natural Hazards. --- Coastal Sciences. --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Lows (Meteorology) --- Storms --- Weather forecasting --- Geology. --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Oceanography, Physical --- Oceanology --- Physical oceanography --- Thalassography --- Marine sciences --- Ocean --- Atmospheric sciences --- Atmosphere --- Coastal landforms --- Coastal zones --- Coastlines --- Landforms --- Seashore --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Aerology --- Atmospheric science --- Tropics. --- Equatorial regions --- Equatorial zones --- Subtropical regions --- Subtropics --- Tropical regions --- Tropical zones --- Earth (Planet)
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The book is about climate change and tropical cyclones, with an emphasis on the Indian Ocean. It highlights a probability of major changes in tropical cyclone activity across the various ocean basins. The Indian Ocean including the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal are of particular concern because of the high population density along their coastlines. The book aims to reveal the scientific bases of the extreme events and the complexities inherent in combating their hazardous impact. The chapters are authored by leading experts, both from research and operational meteorological environments. The book is intended to be a first step towards an ongoing international focus on potential impact of climate change in the Indian Ocean. Topics are related to current status of operational tropical cyclone forecasting and early warning systems, tropical cyclone genesis, assessment of risk and vulnerability from tropical cyclones and disaster preparedness, management and reduction. The volume addresses all aspects of global climate change impact on tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean, including documentation of past high impact events, archival maintenance, reconstruction and quality of best track data sets. Particularly discussed are forecasting, emergency response and impact of Tropical Cyclone Gonu which made landfall in Oman in 2007, Tropical Cyclone Nargis (Myanmar 2008) and Tropical Cyclone SIDR (Bangladesh 2007). Key themes: climate change, tropical cyclones, cyclogenesis, Indian Ocean, cyclone forecasting, SIDR Yassine Charabi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Her main research interests are in applied climatology and meteorology. She is the author more than 20 scientific publications including the book Elements de Climatologie Urbaine: cas de la ville de Sfax (2006, Centre de Publication Universitaire, Tunisie). Salim Al-Hatrushi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. His research focuses on coastal processes and geomorphology. Yassine Charabi and Salim Al-Hatrushi were in the scientific organizing committee of the First International Conference on Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change, co-sponsored by The World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Indian Ocean Region. --- Cyclones -- Environmental aspects -- Indian Ocean Region. --- Cyclones -- Indian Ocean Region. --- Cyclones -- Tropics. --- Indian Ocean Region -- Environmental conditions. --- Cyclones --- Climatic changes --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Meteorology & Climatology --- Environmental aspects --- Indian Ocean Region --- Environmental conditions. --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Cyclonic storms --- Tropical cyclones --- Indian Ocean Rim countries --- Earth sciences. --- Meteorology. --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Physical geography. --- Earth Sciences. --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Physical Geography. --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Lows (Meteorology) --- Storms --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Geography --- Aerology --- Atmospheric science --- Atmospheric sciences --- Earth sciences --- Atmosphere
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This book presents the first physical findings of an investigation into the spatio-temporal characteristics of the global tropical cyclogenesis. Since Global Tropical Cyclogenesis was first published in 2001, many important scientific results have been obtained using methods and techniques developed by the author, including: the detection of the global tropical cyclogenesis as a main element of poleward heat transport in the terrestrial atmosphere; the evolution tropical activity in equatorial precipitable water fields; and scales of interactions between solar activity and global tropical cyclogenesis. These are all explained, together with the new scientific knowledge gained from the study of spatial-temporal properties of the global tropical cyclogenesis which affects satellite oceanography, atmosphere physics, ocean engineering, air-sea interaction and ocean remote sensing. Professor Sharkov gives findings from the Russian scientific airplane-based remote sensing expeditions to the Far East over the Pacific and the several scientific marine expeditions to the tropics as part of major research projects of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A principal feature of the book is the integrated description of spatial-temporal and structure properties of atmosphere catastrophes. Emphasis is placed on the physical aspects of breaking processes necessary to judge the possibilities and limitations of remote sensing methods in monitoring and mitigating natural hazards. The author includes numerous practice applications and illustrations taken from air-borne, ship-borne and laboratory up-to-date experiments. New chapters cover the possible impact of solar activity and effects of tropical cyclones on the upper atmosphere, time series and cumulative functions of global tropical cyclogenesis over 25 years, ionosphere and tropical cyclones activity, instability genesis in compress and saturated moist air atmosphere and complex satellite and in-situ "Scenario-TC" and "Global-RT" databases. A new Appendix gives quantitative data on spatio-temporal features of global and regional tropical cyclogenesis from 1983 to 2008.
Cyclones. --- Cyclones -- Tropics. --- Cyclones --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Meteorology & Climatology --- Cosmic Physics --- Cyclonic storms --- Tropical cyclones --- Earth sciences. --- Meteorology. --- Geophysics. --- Geography. --- Climate change. --- Earth Sciences. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Geography, general. --- Climate Change. --- Lows (Meteorology) --- Storms --- Physical geography. --- Climatic changes. --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Geography --- Environmental aspects --- Aerology --- Atmospheric science --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Global environmental change
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Hurricanes are nature’s most destructive agents. They have recently been linked to changes in climate. A 4-day international summit on hurricanes and climate change took place in 2007 to discuss and debate various scientific issues related to this important topic. There were 77 attendees from 18 different countries who participated in the summit. This book is a sample collection of papers from talks that were presented. The chapters are organized around the broad hurricane-climate themes of empirical evidence, statistical methods, and numerical models. A major focus of the conference was the importance of statistical models for understanding how hurricane activity is changing and may change in the future. Emphasis was also placed on evidence of low-frequency swings in hurricane activity using historical and geological records. Results from various high-resolution numerical models, including a 20-km mesh model, were consistent in showing stronger hurricanes in a warmer future. Most numerical models indicate an overall decrease in the number of storms attributable to greater atmospheric stability and to a decrease in vertical mass flux. This book is unique in its scope drawing from an international community of scholars in the field of hurricane climate science. The science addresses a variety of perspectives ranging from the microphysics of lightning to geological evidence of prehistoric storminess.
Digital control systems --- Congresses. --- Digital control systems --Congresses. --- Hurricanes --- Cyclones --- Cyclonic storms --- Earth sciences. --- Meteorology. --- Oceanography. --- Geobiology. --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Ecotoxicology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Biogeosciences. --- Climatic changes --- Global warming --- Environmental aspects --- Lows (Meteorology) --- Storms --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Environmental toxicology. --- Ecotoxicology --- Pollutants --- Pollution --- Environmental health --- Toxicology --- Oceanography, Physical --- Oceanology --- Physical oceanography --- Thalassography --- Earth sciences --- Marine sciences --- Ocean --- Biology --- Biosphere --- Aerology --- Atmospheric science --- Atmospheric sciences --- Atmosphere
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