Hurricanes and Typhoons

Past, Present, and Future

Richard J. Murnane, Kam-biu Liu

462 pages, parution le 31/12/2004

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Résumé

This book surveys the past, present, and potential future variability of hurricanes and typhoons on a variety of timescales using newly developed approaches based on geological and archival records, in addition to more traditional approaches based on the analysis of the historical record of tropical cyclone tracks. A unique aspect of the book is that it provides an overview of the developing field of paleotempestology, which uses geological, biological, and documentary evidence to reconstruct prehistoric changes in hurricane landfall. The book also presents a particularly wide sampling of ongoing efforts to extend the best track data sets using historical material from many sources, including Chinese archives, British naval logbooks, Spanish colonial records, and early diaries from South Carolina.

The book will be of particular interest to tropical meteorologists, geologists, and climatologists as well as to the catastrophe reinsurance industry, graduate students in meteorology, and public employees active in planning and emergency management.

L'auteur - Richard J. Murnane

Richard J. Murnane manages the Risk Prediction Initiative and is a research scientist at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research.

L'auteur - Kam-biu Liu

Kam-biu Liu is the James J. Parsons Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University.

Sommaire

I. Prehistoric Variability: Millennial to Centennial
- Paleotempestology: Principles, Methods, and Examples from Gulf Coast Lake Sediments
- Back-barrier Sedimentary Records of Intense Hurricane Landfalls in the Northeastern United States
II. Historic Variability: Centennial to Annual
- A Method for Reconstructing Historical Hurricanes
- Tropical Cyclone Reconstructions from Documentary Records: Examples for South Carolina, United States
- The Use of Spanish and British Documentary Sources in the Investigation of Atlantic Hurricane Incidence in Historical Times
- The Atlantic Hurricane Database Reanalysis Project: Documentation for 1851-1910 Alterations and Additions to the HURDAT Database
- Ancient Records of Typhoons in Chinese Historical Documents
- The Importance of Best-Track Data for Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of Hurricanes and Typhoons
III. Present-day Variability: Interdecadal to Intraseasonal
- Variations in Tropical Cyclone Activity over the Western North Pacific: From Interdecadal to Intraseasonal
- ENSO and Tropical Cyclone Activity
- Hurricane Landfall Probability and Climate
- Dynamical Seasonal Forecasts of Tropical Storm Statistics
IV. Potential Future Changes
- Response of Tropical Cyclone Activity to Climate Change: Theoretical Basis
- Impact of Climate Change on Hurricane Intensities as Simulated Using Regional Nested High-Resolution Models

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Éditeur(s)	Columbia University Press
Auteur(s)	Richard J. Murnane, Kam-biu Liu
Parution	31/12/2004
Nb. de pages	462
Format	16 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	702g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780231123884
ISBN13	978-0-231-12388-4