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Hurricanes of the North Atlantic: Climate and Society

By James B. Elsner , A. Birol Kara

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
0195125088, 9780195125085, 9780195352283
LCC
QC945 .E46 1999
Open Library ID
OL356788M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28444809 bytes)
Pages
512\505
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Called the greatest storms on the planet, hurricanes of the North Atlantic Ocean often cause tremendous social and economic upheaval in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. And with the increasing development of coastal areas, the impact of these storms will likely increase. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of North Atlantic hurricanes and what they mean to society. It is intended as an intermediary between hurricane climate research and the users of hurricane information. Topics include the climatology of tropical cyclones in general and those of the North Atlantic in particular; the major North Atlantic hurricanes, focusing on U.S. landfalling storms; the prediction models used in forecasting; and societal vulnerability to hurricanes, including ideas for modeling the relationship between climatological data and analysis in the social and economic sciences.

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