Hurricanes and Climate Change Volume 3 /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Collins, Jennifer M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Walsh, Kevin (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Climate change.; Natural disasters.; Atmospheric sciences.; Environmental economics.; Climate Change.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Environmental Economics.

This book provides research that shows tropical cyclones are more powerful than in the past with the most dramatic increases occurring over the North Atlantic and with the strongest hurricanes. Although such increases are correlated with warming oceans and are consistent with the thermodynamic theor...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Recent Advances in the Emerging Field of Paleotempestology
• Chapter 2. Archival Evidence of Secular Changes in Georgia Hurricanes: 1750-2012
• Chapter 3. Near-time Sea Surface Temperature and Tropical Cyclone Intensity in the Eastern North Pacific basin
• Chapter 4. Modern Tropical Cyclone Wind Observation and Analysis
• Chapter 5. Inland Tropical Cyclones and the “Brown Ocean” Concept
• Chapter 6. Typhoon/Hurricane Disaster Prediction and Prevention for Coastal, Offshore and Nuclear Power Plant Infrastructure
• Chapter 7. The use of Global Climate Models for Tropical Cyclone Risk Assessment
• Chapter 8. High Resolution Multi-Decadal Simulations of Tropical Cyclones
• Chapter 9, Analysis of Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Landfall Forecasts in Coupled GCMs on Seasonal and Decadal Timescales
• Chapter 10. Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Changes in a Warmer Climate.