Overview
- Focus on the potential impact of climate change in the Indian Ocean
- Discussion on tropical cyclones, with an emphasis on the Indian Ocean
- Highlighting a probability of major changes in tropical cyclone activity across the various ocean basins
- The volume is planned as a WMO publication
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting & Warning Systems
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Assessment of Risk and Vulnerability from Tropical Cyclones, Including Construction, Archival and Retrieval of Best-Track and Historic Data Sets
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Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reduction
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Recent High Impact Tropical Cyclone Events in the Indian Ocean: Nargis, SIDR, Gonu and Other Events
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Yassine Charabi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Her main research interests are in applied climatology and meteorology. She is the author more than 20 scientific publications including the book Elements de Climatologie Urbaine: cas de la ville de Sfax (2006, Centre de Publication Universitaire, Tunisie).
Salim Al-Hatrushi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. His research focuses on coastal processes and geomorphology.
Yassine Charabi and Salim Al-Hatrushi were in the scientific organizing committee of the First International Conference on Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change, co-sponsored by The World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change
Editors: Yassine Charabi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3109-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3108-2Published: 05 January 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7734-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3109-9Published: 19 January 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 373
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Meteorology, Physical Geography