An Analysis of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season
American Journal of Climate Change, 2019, 8, 454-481 https://www.scirp.org/journal/ajcc ISSN Online: 2167-9509 ISSN Print: 2167-9495 Hurricane Occurrence and Seasonal Activity: An Analysis of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Henry Ngenyam Bang , Lee Stuart Miles, Richard Duncan Gordon Disaster Management Centre, Bournemouth University, Dorset, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, UK How to cite this paper: Bang, H.N., Miles, Abstract L.S. and Gordon, R.D. (2019) Hurricane Occurrence and Seasonal Activity: An Anal- This article provides a reckoning of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season’s ysis of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season. place in history to ascertain how unique it was from other hurricane seasons. American Journal of Climate Change, 8, A research strategy involving qualitative, descriptive and analytical research 454-481. approaches, including content analysis, sequential description of events and https://doi.org/10.4236/ajcc.2019.84025 comparative analysis, were used to assess how and why the 2017 AHS season Received: July 31, 2019 is distinct from others. Findings reveal that the 2017 AHS was extraordinary Accepted: October 21, 2019 by all meteorological standards—in many ways, being hyperactive, and pro- Published: October 24, 2019 ducing a frenetic stretch of huge, long-lived and dramatic, tropical storms in- Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and cluding 10 hurricanes. The season was, arguably, the most expensive in his- Scientific Research Publishing Inc. tory and will be remembered for the unprecedented devastation caused by the This work is licensed under the Creative season’s major hurricanes (Harvey, Irma and Maria). While the extremely ac- Commons Attribution International tive season can be attributed to anomalously high, climate change induced, License (CC BY 4.0).
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