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Global mapping of storm surges and the assessment of coastal vulnerability

Brakenridge, G.; Syvitski, J.; Overeem, I.; Higgins, S.; … - In: Natural Hazards 66 (2013) 3, pp. 1295-1312

The measurement and recording of the height and spatial extent reached by coastal storm surges is fundamental to scientific progress in understanding these phenomena. Such information is required for better prediction and for risk assessment. Model-based evaluation of increasing delta...

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Extreme weather and economic well-being in rural Mozambique

Matyas, Corene; Silva, Julie - In: Natural Hazards 66 (2013) 1, pp. 31-49

Societies dependent on rain-fed agriculture are highly vulnerable to weather extremes; thus, linkages between rainfall variability and economic well-being merit close attention. The hypothesis of this paper is that rainfall patterns impact changes in income within our study region of central and...

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A surge response function approach to coastal hazard assessment. Part 2: Quantification of spatial attributes of response functions

Irish, Jennifer; Resio, Donald; Cialone, Mary - In: Natural Hazards 51 (2009) 1, pp. 183-205

storm size, intensity, and track. It will be shown that these scaling laws successfully estimate the surge response at any … arbitrary location for any arbitrary storm track within the study region. Such a prediction methodology has the potential to …

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Developing a new sinuosity index for cyclone tracks in the tropical South Pacific

Terry, James; Gienko, Gennady - In: Natural Hazards 59 (2011) 2, pp. 1161-1174

This paper introduces a new metric for tropical cyclone track shape within the tropical South Pacific (TSP) basin …, based on measurements of track sinuosity. A sinuosity index (SI) is developed by applying a simple cube-root transformation … to original track sinuosity values. Based on the resulting near-normal SI distribution, an ordinal four …

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Disaster warning response: the effects of different types of personal experience

Sharma, Upasna; Patt, Anthony - In: Natural Hazards 60 (2012) 2, pp. 409-423

In this paper, we seek to resolve the conflicting findings in literature about the effect of past hazard experience on response to warning. We find that different definitions of past experience in different studies are at the root of these conflicting findings. We disaggregate past experience...

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Community Vulnerability to Tropical Cyclones: Cairns, 1996–2000

Anderson-Berry, Linda - In: Natural Hazards 30 (2003) 2, pp. 209-232

This paper is a partial discussion of a four-year study that investigated the vulnerability of the people living in the Cairns region to the tropical cyclone hazard. The longitudinal case study, focussing on the Cairns Northern Beaches area, was unique in that it included a social and societal...

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Climatology of landfalling tropical cyclones in Bangladesh 1877–2003

Islam, Tanveerul; Peterson, Richard - In: Natural Hazards 48 (2009) 1, pp. 115-135

the tropical cyclones of Bangladesh. The Global Tropical Cyclone Climatic Atlas (GTCCA) lists historical storm track …

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Implementation/optimization of moving least squares response surfaces for approximation of hurricane/storm surge and wave responses

Taflanidis, Alexandros; Jia, Gaofeng; Kennedy, Andrew; … - In: Natural Hazards 66 (2013) 2, pp. 955-983

One of the important recent advances in the field of hurricane/storm modelling has been the development of high-fidelity numerical simulation models for reliable and accurate prediction of wave and surge responses. The computational cost associated with these models has simultaneously created an...

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Stochastic modelling of tropical cyclone tracks

Rumpf, Jonas; Weindl, Helga; Höppe, Peter; Rauch, Ernst; … - In: Computational Statistics 66 (2007) 3, pp. 475-490

. The points of cyclone genesis are modelled as a spatial Poisson point process, the intensity of which is estimated using a …, thereby generating a first 6-h segment of a track. The subsequent segments are then generated by drawing changes in theses … the track is determined after each segment as a function of wind speed and location. In the present paper, the model is …

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Impact of physical parameterization schemes on numerical simulation of super cyclone Gonu

Deshpande, Medha; Pattnaik, S.; Salvekar, P. - In: Natural Hazards 55 (2010) 2, pp. 211-231

explicit cloud microphysics parameterization schemes on intensity and track forecast of super cyclone Gonu (2007) using the … parameterization schemes on the storm’s track and intensity forecast. Convective parameterization schemes (CPS) include Grell (Gr … three nested domains (90-, 30- and 10-km grid resolution). It is found that the forecast track and intensity of the cyclone …

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