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Homeowners Handbook to Prepare for Natural Disasters
HOMEOWNERS HANDBOOK HANDBOOK HOMEOWNERS DELAWARE HOMEOWNERS TO PREPARE FOR FOR TO PREPARE HANDBOOK TO PREPARE FOR NATURAL HAZARDSNATURAL NATURAL HAZARDS TORNADOES COASTAL STORMS SECOND EDITION SECOND Delaware Sea Grant Delaware FLOODS 50% FPO 15-0319-579-5k ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This handbook was developed as a cooperative project among the Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA), the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) and the Delaware Sea Grant College Program (DESG). A key priority of this project partnership is to increase the resiliency of coastal communities to natural hazards. One major component of strong communities is enhancing individual resilience and recognizing that adjustments to day-to- day living are necessary. This book is designed to promote individual resilience, thereby creating a fortified community. The second edition of the handbook would not have been possible without the support of the following individuals who lent their valuable input and review: Mike Powell, Jennifer Pongratz, Ashley Norton, David Warga, Jesse Hayden (DNREC); Damaris Slawik (DEMA); Darrin Gordon, Austin Calaman (Lewes Board of Public Works); John Apple (Town of Bethany Beach Code Enforcement); Henry Baynum, Robin Davis (City of Lewes Building Department); John Callahan, Tina Callahan, Kevin Brinson (University of Delaware); David Christopher (Delaware Sea Grant); Kevin McLaughlin (KMD Design Inc.); Mark Jolly-Van Bodegraven, Pam Donnelly and Tammy Beeson (DESG Environmental Public Education Office). Original content from the first edition of the handbook was drafted with assistance from: Mike Powell, Greg Williams, Kim McKenna, Jennifer Wheatley, Tony Pratt, Jennifer de Mooy and Morgan Ellis (DNREC); Ed Strouse, Dave Carlson, and Don Knox (DEMA); Joe Thomas (Sussex County Emergency Operations Center); Colin Faulkner (Kent County Department of Public Safety); Dave Carpenter, Jr. -
The Impact of Tropical Cyclone Hayan in the Philippines: Contribution of Spatial Planning to Enhance Adaptation in the City of Tacloban
UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS Faculdade de Ciências Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Faculdade de Letras Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Instituto de Ciências Sociais Instituto Superior de Agronomia Instituto Superior Técnico The impact of tropical cyclone Hayan in the Philippines: Contribution of spatial planning to enhance adaptation in the city of Tacloban Doutoramento em Alterações Climáticas e Políticas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Especialidade em Ciências do Ambiente Carlos Tito Santos Tese orientada por: Professor Doutor Filipe Duarte Santos Professor Doutor João Ferrão Documento especialmente elaborado para a obtenção do grau de Doutor 2018 UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS Faculdade de Ciências Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Faculdade de Letras Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Instituto de Ciências Sociais Instituto Superior de Agronomia Instituto Superior Técnico The impact of tropical cyclone Haiyan in the Philippines: Contribution of spatial planning to enhance adaptation in the city of Tacloban Doutoramento em Alterações Climáticas e Políticas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Especialidade em Ciências do Ambiente Carlos Tito Santos Júri: Presidente: Doutor Rui Manuel dos Santos Malhó; Professor Catedrático Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Vogais: Doutor Carlos Daniel Borges Coelho; Professor Auxiliar Departamento de Engenharia Civil da Universidade de Aveiro Doutor Vítor Manuel Marques Campos; Investigador Auxiliar Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil(LNEC) -
Tropical Cyclone Naming - New List (2020)
10 INDIAN SCIENCE CRUISER (ISSN : 0970-4256) Volume 35 No 2 March 2021 India aim to achieve the same with a population New society would come up with the remaining. of 130 crores and in cities like Kolkata with the That society may be different but would still population density of 24000 persons per sq.km. exist. This would go on till the Sun becomes cold Will any mathematician calculate out the space spending out all its energy and that would be in required for maintaining 6 ft distance in between. astronomical scale. Even the sky won’t be able to accommodate. Resurrection is the rule, something end, but But let us now look to the future. Perhaps future generation appears and again I hope the we may die; new human civilization will again world show will go on. come up among the persons who may survive the onslaught of this corona attack. Even if the toll Dr. Samir Ghosh may be more than 50% of 700 billion persons, but Founder Member, ISEC still there is hope. (A friend of Late Professor Murali M Biswas) Gautam Kumar Das Tropical Cyclone Naming - New List (2020) People have a great curiosity about naming and Yemen are added to the list for naming of the of Amphan on that very day when the Super tropical cyclones. In 20 May, 2020, the naming Cyclone Amphan devastated West Bengal and of cyclone Amphan exhausted the original list of Bangladesh. They asked whether the name of names established in 2004. A fresh list of names cyclones is a social customs that differ from one has been prepared and will be used in alphabetical country to another or it is simply customary to a order for cyclonic storms after Amphan. -
Cyclone Nivar - Important Facts
Cyclone Nivar - Important Facts Cyclone Nivar is a ‘severe cyclonic storm’ that is expected to hit the southeastern coast of India on midnight of 25th November 2020. Cyclones and other natural disasters that affect India and the world are important topics for the UPSC exam. It is important for both the geography and the disaster management topics in the UPSC syllabus. Cyclone Nivar The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has stated that the severe cyclone Nivar will intensify into a ‘very severe cyclonic storm’ and make landfall between Mamallapuram (in Tamil Nadu, around 56 km from Chennai) and Karaikal in Puducherry, on 25th November at midnight or early hours of the 26th of November. • The Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts are experiencing heavy rains and strong winds due to the impending cyclone. Many parts of the metropolitan city of Chennai have been flooded due to the heavy rainfall. • The winds that the cyclone brings could be between 120 and 130 km per hour, with gusts of up to 145 km per hour. • Officials had stated they would release water from the Chembarambakkam reservoir near Chennai due to the heavy rain received in the wake of Nivar. • People living in low-lying areas have been evacuated. • The Indian Army has sent teams and rescue boats to the affected areas for assistance in the aftermath of the landfall. • Thousands of people have been evacuated as a precautionary measure. • Trains and flights have been cancelled owing to the cyclone. • Experts say that after landfall, the cyclone may take up to six hours to weaken. -
Weathering the Storm: Options for Disaster Risk Financing in Vietnam
Report No. Weathering the Storm: Options for Disaster Risk Financing in Vietnam March 2010 THE WORLD BANK Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................... 6 Objectives of the Study ............................................................................................................ 7 Chapter 2: Financial Disaster Risk Assessment in Vietnam ........................................................... 9 Natural Hazard Risk Exposures in Vietnam ......................................................................... 9 Damage Assessment in Vietnam ........................................................................................... 13 Financial Analysis of the Costs of Natural Disasters in Vietnam ...................................... 17 Preliminary Catastrophe Risk Analysis ............................................................................... 23 Chapter 3: Financial Management of Natural Disasters ................................................................ 26 Review of Budget Process ...................................................................................................... 26 Natural Disaster Funding Gap: Preliminary Analysis ....................................................... 30 Chapter 4: Options for Disaster Risk Financing in Vietnam ......................................................... 44 Sovereign Risk Financing in Vietnam ................................................................................. -
The 2010-12 Drought and Subsequent Extensive Flooding © Front Cover Images: Flooding at Exbridge, December 2012, Heather Lowther, CEH
National Hydrological Monitoring Programme ISBN 978-1-906698-44-7 The 2010-12 drought and subsequent extensive flooding © Front cover images: Flooding at Exbridge, December 2012, Heather Lowther, CEH. - a remarkable hydrological transformation Drought at Hurtswood Reservoir, © United Utilities. Design: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. by Terry Marsh, Simon Parry, Mike Kendon & Jamie Hannaford Printed on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) approved recycled papers, from well-managed forests and other controlled sources. National Hydrological Monitoring Programme The 2010-12 drought and subsequent extensive flooding - a remarkable hydrological transformation by Terry Marsh, Simon Parry, Mike Kendon & Jamie Hannaford CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY l [email protected] l www.ceh.ac.uk [i] This report should be cited as Marsh, T.J.1, Parry, S.1, Kendon, M.C.2, and Hannaford, J.1 2013. The 2010-12 drought and subsequent extensive flooding. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. 54 pages. Affiliations: 1Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; 2Met Office. ISBN: 978-1-906698-44-7 Publication Address Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Maclean Building Benson Lane Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10 8BB UK General and business enquiries: +44 (0)1491 838800 E-mail: [email protected] Cover design: Heather Lowther [ii] The 2010-12 drought and subsequent extensive flooding - a remarkable hydrological transformation THE 2010-12 DROUGHT AND SUBSEQUENT EXTENSIVE FLOODING – A REMARKABLE HYDROLOGICAL TRANSFORMatION The work for this report was carried out by scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), the UK’s centre of excellence for research in land and freshwater environmental sciences in partnership with the Met Office; technical guidance was provided by the British Geological Survey (BGS), the UK’s premier centre for earth science information and expertise. -
018 • 6 Straight Years with at Least One Bertha- May 2020 Named Storm Prior to June 1St • in 2020, 36 Special Twos Issued Prior to June 1!
Welcome to the 2021 RA-IV (Virtual) Workshop on Hurricane Forecasting and Warning Ken Graham, Director Richard J. Pasch and Daniel P. Brown, Senior Hurricane Specialists National Hurricane Center April 26, 2021 Workshop Reminders • Please log in a few minutes before the start of each session to minimize distractions • Please come back from breaks on time • Please use camera during discussion and questions and answer period • Schedule: • Session from 1400-1700 UTC and 1800-2100 UTC • Lunch break from 1700-1800 UTC • Ends at 1700 UTC on Friday • Technical issues please email: [email protected] or [email protected] Google Meet Crash Course • You can change your view by selecting the options icon. These changes will not take effect until you rejoin the session. Please wait until a break to leave and return to the session to do this. Click additional options icon (3 dots) Google Meet Crash Course • You can change your view by selecting the options icon. These changes will not take effect until you rejoin the session. Please wait until a break to leave and return to the session to do this. Click “change layout” Google Meet Crash Course • You can change your view by selecting the options icon. These changes will not take effect until you rejoin the session. Please wait until a break to leave and return to the session to do this. To maximize the presentation size, use spotlight or sidebar. Sidebar allows you to see the speaker. Google Meet Crash Course • We highly encourage interaction during the webinar. This can be done in a few different ways: Click chat icon Google Meet Crash Course • We highly encourage interaction during the webinar. -
Chapter 16 Extratropical Cyclones
CHAPTER 16 SCHULTZ ET AL. 16.1 Chapter 16 Extratropical Cyclones: A Century of Research on Meteorology’s Centerpiece a b c d DAVID M. SCHULTZ, LANCE F. BOSART, BRIAN A. COLLE, HUW C. DAVIES, e b f g CHRISTOPHER DEARDEN, DANIEL KEYSER, OLIVIA MARTIUS, PAUL J. ROEBBER, h i b W. JAMES STEENBURGH, HANS VOLKERT, AND ANDREW C. WINTERS a Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom b Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York c School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York d Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland e Centre of Excellence for Modelling the Atmosphere and Climate, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom f Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland g Atmospheric Science Group, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin h Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah i Deutsches Zentrum fur€ Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut fur€ Physik der Atmosphare,€ Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany ABSTRACT The year 1919 was important in meteorology, not only because it was the year that the American Meteorological Society was founded, but also for two other reasons. One of the foundational papers in extratropical cyclone structure by Jakob Bjerknes was published in 1919, leading to what is now known as the Norwegian cyclone model. Also that year, a series of meetings was held that led to the formation of organizations that promoted the in- ternational collaboration and scientific exchange required for extratropical cyclone research, which by necessity involves spatial scales spanning national borders. -
Notable Tropical Cyclones and Unusual Areas of Tropical Cyclone Formation
A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land.[1] The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water.[2] In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Flooding may result from the volume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, which overflows or breaks levees, with the result that some of the water escapes its usual boundaries.[3] While the size of a lake or other body of water will vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, it is not a significant flood unless such escapes of water endanger land areas used by man like a village, city or other inhabited area. Floods can also occur in rivers, when flow exceeds the capacity of the river channel, particularly at bends or meanders. Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if they are placed in natural flood plains of rivers. While flood damage can be virtually eliminated by moving away from rivers and other bodies of water, since time out of mind, people have lived and worked by the water to seek sustenance and capitalize on the gains of cheap and easy travel and commerce by being near water. That humans continue to inhabit areas threatened by flood damage is evidence that the perceived value of living near the water exceeds the cost of repeated periodic flooding. The word "flood" comes from the Old English flod, a word common to Germanic languages (compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float; also compare with Latin fluctus, flumen). -
MASARYK UNIVERSITY BRNO Diploma Thesis
MASARYK UNIVERSITY BRNO FACULTY OF EDUCATION Diploma thesis Brno 2018 Supervisor: Author: doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. Bc. Lukáš Opavský MASARYK UNIVERSITY BRNO FACULTY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Presentation Sentences in Wikipedia: FSP Analysis Diploma thesis Brno 2018 Supervisor: Author: doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. Bc. Lukáš Opavský Declaration I declare that I have worked on this thesis independently, using only the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography. I agree with the placing of this thesis in the library of the Faculty of Education at the Masaryk University and with the access for academic purposes. Brno, 30th March 2018 …………………………………………. Bc. Lukáš Opavský Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisor, doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. for his kind help and constant guidance throughout my work. Bc. Lukáš Opavský OPAVSKÝ, Lukáš. Presentation Sentences in Wikipedia: FSP Analysis; Diploma Thesis. Brno: Masaryk University, Faculty of Education, English Language and Literature Department, 2018. XX p. Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. Annotation The purpose of this thesis is an analysis of a corpus comprising of opening sentences of articles collected from the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. Four different quality categories from Wikipedia were chosen, from the total amount of eight, to ensure gathering of a representative sample, for each category there are fifty sentences, the total amount of the sentences altogether is, therefore, two hundred. The sentences will be analysed according to the Firabsian theory of functional sentence perspective in order to discriminate differences both between the quality categories and also within the categories. -
White Papers
WHITE PAPERS - 13 - INCREASED SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR THE LINK OF CLIMATE CHANGE TO HURRICANE INTENSITY Christoph Bals Germanwatch ntil recently, most scientists would have said that there was no or no clear evidence that global warming has had any effect on the planet’s most powerful storms- dubbed hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones depending on the ocean that spawns them. They would have argued that the changes of the past decade in U these metrics are not so large as to clearly indicate that anything is going on other than the multi-decadal variability that has been well documented since at least 1900 (Gray et al. 1997; Landsea et al. 1999; Goldenberg et al. 2001). 2005 a Turning Point of the Debate? 2005 might prove as a turning point of the debate. Two developments came accomponied. First, the two extreme hurricane years 2004 and 2005 increased attention of scientists: At the latest when Wilma's internal pressure hit 882 millibars, beating a record held by 1988's Gilbert, climatologists took notice. It was the first time a single season had produced four Category 5 hurricanes, the highest stage on the 5-step Saffir-Simpson scale of storm intensity. The 28 tropical storms and hurricanes, that the world faced in 2005, crushed the old mark of 21, set in 1933. Second, a number of new scientific studies provided much more support to the hypotheses by showing that „now ... a connection is emerging between warming oceans and severe tropical cyclones " (Kerr, 2005, 1807). Two papers published in Science and Nature in 2005 started a development described as “Birth for Hurricane Climatology” (Kerr, 2006) by identifying the impact of climate change on hurricane intensity, number and regional distribution. -
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INSTRUCTION 10-601 JUNE 8, 2012 Operations and Services Tropical Cyclone Weather Services Program, NWSPD 10-6 TROPICAL CYCLONE PRODUCTS
Department of Commerce • National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration • National Weather Service NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INSTRUCTION 10-601 JUNE 8, 2012 Operations and Services Tropical Cyclone Weather Services Program, NWSPD 10-6 TROPICAL CYCLONE PRODUCTS NOTICE: This publication is available at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/directives/. OPR: W/OS21 (T. Schott) Certified by: W/OS21 (M. Tew) Type of Issuance: Emergency SUMMARY OF REVISIONS: This directive supersedes NWS Instruction 10-601, dated June 15, 2011. The following revisions were made to this directive: 1.1.3.3.d Standardizes CONUS policy for storm surge information in the TCP as the combination of storm surge and tides, to emphasize total water level (i.e., inundation) 1.5.2.3 Added WFO Guam policy 1.10.2.3 Added WFO Guam policy 7.1.3.4 Added WFO Guam policy 7.1.4 Updates HLS policy for relationship between the HLS and Rip Current Statement /RP.S/Changes to product examples in Appendix: Updates TWO examples Updates TCU example Updates TCP example with improved storm surge wording Signed May 25, 2012 David B. Caldwell Date Director, Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services NWSI 10-601 JUNE 8, 2012 Tropical Cyclone Products 1. Tropical Cyclone Forecast and Advisory Products .............................................................4 1.1 Tropical Cyclone Public Advisories (TCP) .............................................................4 1.2 Tropical Cyclone Forecasts/Advisories (TCM) .....................................................11 1.3 Tropical Cyclone Discussions