Hurricanes of the North Atlantic Climate and Society

About this book

Called the greatest storms on the planet, hurricanes of the North Atlantic Ocean often cause tremendous social and economic upheaval in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. And with the increasing development of coastal areas, the impact of these storms is likely to increase. This book provides a comprehensive analysis if North Atlantic hurricanes and what they mean to society. It is intended as an intermediary between hurricane climate research and the users of hurricane information. Topics include the climatology of tropical cyclones in general and those of the North Atlantic in particular; the major North Atlantic hurricanes, focusing on US landfalling storms; the prediction models used in forecasting; and societal vulnerability to hurricanes, including ideas for modeling the relationship between climatological data and analysis in the social and economic sciences.

Contents

1. Hurricane characteristics; 2. Hurricane categories and impacts; 3. Hurricane climate data; 4. North Atlantic hurricanes; 5. Tropical-only hurricanes; 6. Baroclinically-enhanced hurricanes; 7. Major hurricanes; 8. U.S. hurricanes; 9. Hurricanes of Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Bermuda; 10. Hurricane cycles and trends; 11. Hurricane return periods; 12. Hurricanes of the early 1990s; 13. History of seasonal hurricane forecasting; 14. Seasonal forecast models; 15. Sub-basin forecast models; 16. Prospects for multi-season outlooks; 17. Coastal population at risk; 18. Coastal property at risk; 19. Property catastrophe insurance; 20. Integrated assessment; Appendix; References

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