Natural Hazards and Disasters

Lab 9: Hurricanes

Lab 9 Slides.

In this lab, we will carry a a few exercises related to hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones to better understand the material presented in class 9. The exercise will be discussed and you are asked to complete them as part of Question Set 7. It is important that you familarize yourself with https://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes and some of the reports available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/. In particular, have a look at the report for Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Lab Reading List

National Hurricane Center, 2017. Hurricanes in History. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/history/. See also the info on the annual hurrican seasons available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/ and the overviews of the most extreme hurricanes available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/dcmi.shtml.

NOAA, 2017. Historical Hurricane Tracks. https://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes.

National Hurricane Center, 2017. Hurricanes in History. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/history/. See also the info on the annual hurrican seasons available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/ and the overviews of the most extreme hurricanes available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/dcmi.shtml.

Pickrell, J, 2006. Introduction to Hurricanes. New Scientist, https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9985-introduction-hurricanes/.

Morsink, K., 2016. Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones. Ocean Portal, Smithonian National Museum of Natural History. http://ocean.si.edu/hurricanes-typhoons-and-cyclones.

Wikipedia, 2017. Tropical cyclone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone.

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