Recent Hurricane Research Climate Dynamics and Societal Impact

Recent Hurricane Research Climate Dynamics and Societal Impacts Preface......Page 1
Part 1......Page 15
01_The Interannual and Interdecadal Variability in Hurricane Activity......Page 17
02_Influence of Cosmophysical Phenomena and African Dust on Hurricanes Genesis......Page 55
03_The Impact of Hurricanes on the Weather of Western Europe......Page 91
04_The Effects of Space Weather on Hurricane Activity......Page 99
05_Hurricane Intensity, Sea Surface Temperature, and Stochastic Variation......Page 117
06_Statistical Techniques for Exploring Possibly Increasing Trend of Hurricane Activity......Page 133
07_Regional Increases in Landfall Frequency and Intensity of Atlantic Hurricanes in a Stochastic Model Forecast......Page 143
Part 2......Page 157
08_Barotropic Aspects of Hurricane Structural and Intensity Variability......Page 159
09_Studies of the Hurricane Evolution Based on Modern Thermodynamics......Page 185
10_Simulation of Tropical Cyclones Using Spectral Bin Microphysics......Page 211
11_Analysis of Tropical Cyclones in the South China Sea and Bay of Bengal during Monsoon Season......Page 241
12_Air-sea Interaction under Hurricane Wind Conditions......Page 261
13_How Vertical Wind Shear Affects Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change: An Overview......Page 283
14_Formation of Gravitational Hurricanes Simulated by Numerical Gravitational Gas Dynamics Model......Page 301
Part 3......Page 309
15_Improvements of Hurricane Forecast with Vortex Initialization using WRF Variational (WRF-Var) Data Assimilation......Page 311
16_Improving Hurricane Intensity Forecasting through Data Assimilation: Environmental Conditions Versus the Vortex Initialization......Page 333
17_The Impact of Oceanic Heat Content on the Rapid Intensification of Atlantic Hurricanes......Page 345
Part 4......Page 369
18_Modelling Hurricane Related Hazards and Risk through GIS for Early Warning Systems......Page 371
19_Geospatial Technique for Rapid Delineation of Potential Hurricane Damage......Page 387
20_Storm Surge: Physical Processes and an Impact Scale......Page 399
21_Estimating the Vulnerability of U.S. Coastal Areas to Hurricane Damage......Page 421
Part 5......Page 433
22_Factors Associated with Hurricane Evacuation in North Carolina......Page 435
23_The Role of Non-Recurring Congestion in Massive Hurricane Evacuation Events......Page 455
24_Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - Effects on Children’s Healthcare......Page 473
25_Hurricane Evacuations of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston......Page 487
26_Case Studies and Lessons Learned in Chemical Emergencies Related to Hurricanes......Page 497
Part 6......Page 515
27_The Complexity of Catastrophic Wind Impacts on Temperate Forests......Page 517
28_Hurricane Georges Accelerated Litterfall Fluxes of a 26 yr-old Novel Secondary Forest in Puerto Rico......Page 549
29_Hurricane-Induced Phytoplankton Blooms: Satellite Observations and Numerical Model Simulations......Page 569
30_Using Regional-scale Pre- and Post Hurricane Katrina Lidar for Monitoring and Modeling......Page 589
31_Segmentation Methods for Synthetic Aperture Radar......Page 607