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Cyclones : background, history and impact / Terrance G. LaBeau, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Natural disaster research, prediction and mitigation series.
- Natural disaster research, prediction and mitigation series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cyclones.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In meteorology, a cyclone refers to an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth. This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counter clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth.
- Contents:
- Cyclones: facts and history / Hurricane Research Division
- The ability of climate models to generate tropical cyclones: implications for prediction / Kevin Walsh
- Effect of uncertainties in modeling tropical cyclones on pricing excess of loss reinsurance / Siamak Daneshvaran, Robert E. Morden
- The impacts of an increase in tropical cyclone activity on tourism in Mauritius / Sobhee Sanjeev
- Cyclone Nargis and Burma's constitutional referendum / Michael F. Martin, Rhoda Margesson.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60876-711-6
- OCLC:
- 837527973
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