Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Charabi, Yassine. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Subjects: Geography.; Meteorology.; Physical geography.; Climatic changes.; Earth Sciences.; Meteorology/Climatology.; Climate Change.; Physical Geography.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3109-9

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Climate Change and Tropical Cyclone Activity
• 2.Progress on Tropical Cyclogenesis
• 3.Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting and Warning Systems
• 4.Assessment of Risk and Vulnerability from Tropical Cyclones, Including Construction, Archival and Retrieval of Best-Track and Historic Data Sets
• 5. Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reduction
• 6.Recent High Impact Tropical Cyclone Events in the Indian Ocean: Nargis, SIDR, Gonu and Other Events.