Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Murnane, Richard J.
2. Liu, Kam-biu.

Description

1. xii, 462 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm

Summary

1. "This book surveys the past, present, and potential future variability of hurricanes and typhoons on a variety of time scales using newly developed approaches based on geological and archival records, in addition to more traditional approaches based on the analysis of the historical record of tropical cyclone tracks. A unique aspect of the book is that it provides an overview of the developing field of paleotempestology, which uses geological, biological, and documentary evidence to reconstruct prehistoric changes in hurricane landfall. The book also presents a particularly wide sampling of ongoing efforts to extend hurricane and typhoon data sets using historical material from many sources, including Chinese archives, British naval logbooks, Spanish colonial records, and early diaries from South Carolina." "Tropical meteorologists, geologists, and climatologists will find this book particularly useful, as will members of the catastrophe reinsurance industry, graduate students in meteorology, and public employees active in planning and emergency management."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Hurricanes
2. Cyclone tracks
3. Paleoclimatology
4. Typhoons

Contents

1. 1. Introduction / Richard J. Murnane -- 2. Paleotempestology : principles, methods, and examples from gulf coast lake sediments / Kam-biu Liu -- 3. Back-barrier sedimentary records of intense hurricane landfalls in the northeastern United States / Jeffrey P. Donnelly and Thompson Webb III -- 4. A method for reconstructing historical hurricanes / Emery R. Boose -- 5. Tropical cyclone reconstructions from documentary records : examples for South Carolina, United States / Cary J. Mock -- 6. The use of Spanish and British documentary sources in the investigation of Atlantic hurricane incidence in historical times / Ricardo Garcia Herrera, Francisco Rubio Duran, Dennis Wheeler, Emiliano Hernandez Martin, Maria Rosario Prieto and Luis Gimeno -- 7. The Atlantic hurricane database reanalysis project : documentation for 1851-1910 alterations and additions to the HURDAT database / Christopher W. Landsea, Craig Anderson, Noel Charles, Gilbert Clark, Jason Dunion, Jose Fernandez-Partagas, Paul Hungerford, Charlie Neumann and Mark Zimmer -- 8. Ancient records of typhoons in Chinese historical documents / Kin-sheun Louie and Kam-biu Liu -- 9. The importance of best-track data for understanding the past, present, and future of hurricanes and typhoons / Richard J. Murnane -- 10. Variations in tropical cyclone activity over the western north Pacific : from interdecadal to intraseasonal / Johnny C. L. Chan -- 11. ENSO and tropical cyclone activity / Pao-Shin Chu -- 12. Hurricane landfall probability and climate / James B. Elsner and Brian H. Bossak -- 13. Dynamical seasonal forecasts of tropical storm statistics / Frederic Vitart -- 14. Response of tropical cyclone activity to climate change : theoretical basis / Kerry Emanuel -- 15. Impact of climate change on hurricane intensities as simulated using regional nested high-resolution models / Thomas R. Knutson, Robert E. Tuleya, Weixing Shen and Isaac Ginis -- 16. Conclusion / Richard J. Murnane and Kam-biu Liu.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.