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Hurricanes and typhoons : past, present, and future /

The book also presents a particularly wide sampling of ongoing efforts to extend hurricane and typhoon data sets using historical material from many sources, including Chinese archives, British naval logbooks, Spanish colonial records, and early diaries from South Carolina." "Tropical mete...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Murnane, Richard J., Liu, Kam-biu
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Hurricanes.
Typhoons.
Cyclone tracks.
Paleoclimatology.
Ouragans.
Typhons.
Cyclones > Trajectoires.
Paléoclimatologie.
hurricanes.
typhoons.
Cyclone tracks
Hurricanes
Paleoclimatology
Typhoons
Wirbelsturm
Wervelstormen.
Paleoklimatologie.
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Table of Contents:
  • Paleotempestology: principles, methods, and examples from Gulf Coast lake sediments / Kam-biu Liu
  • Back-barrier sedimentary records of intense hurricane landfalls in the northeastern United States / Jeffrey P. Donnelly and Thompson Webb III
  • A method for reconstructing historical hurricanes / Emery R. Boose
  • Tropical cyclone reconstructions from documentary records: examples for South Carolina, United States / Cary J. Mock
  • The use of Spanish and British documentary sources in the investigation of Atlantic hurricane incidence in historical times / Ricardo García Herrera ... and others
  • The Atlantic Hurricane Database reanalysis project: documentation for 1851-1910 alterations and additions to the HURDAT database / Christopher W. Landsea ... and others
  • Ancient records of typhoons in Chinese historical documents / Kin-sheun Louie and Kam-biu Liu
  • The importance of best-track data for understanding the past, present, and future of hurricanes and typhoons / Richard J. Murnane
  • Variations in tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific: from interdecadal to intraseasonal / Johnny C.L. Chan
  • ENSO and tropical cyclone activity / Pao-Shin Chu
  • Hurricane landfall probability and climate / James B. Elsner and Brian H. Bossak
  • Dynamical seasonal forecasts of tropical storm statistics / Frédéric Vitart
  • Response of tropical cyclone activity to climate change: theoretical basis / Kerry Emanuel
  • Impact of climate change on hurricane intensities as simulated using regional nested high-resolution models / Thomas R. Knutson ... and others.