Tropical Cyclones Climatology and Impacts in the South Pacific /

• Main Author: Terry, James P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Meteorology.; Hydrogeology.; Oceanography.; Atmospheric sciences.; Physical geography.; Climate change.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Physical Geography.; Climate Change.

Tropical Cyclones – Climatology and Impacts in the South Pacific This book describes the behaviour of tropical cyclones in the South Pacific and investigates the broad range of disturbance effects these violent storms have on the physical environments of the islands that lie in their path and the pe...

Table of Contents:

• Tropical Cyclones in the South Pacific
• Setting the Scene
• Tropical Cyclogenesis
• Tropical Cyclone Structure
• Tropical Cyclone Structure
• Meteorological Conditions
• Future Tropical Cyclone Activity
• Impacts of Tropical Cyclones
• Coastal Geomorphology
• Slope Stability and Mass Movements
• River Hydrology and Floods
• Fluvial Geomorphology.