Maximum wind radius estimated by the 50 kt radius: improvement of storm surge forecasting over the western North Pacific

H Takagi, W Wu - Natural Hazards and Earth System …, 2016 - nhess.copernicus.org
Even though the maximum wind radius (R max⁡) is an important parameter in determining
the intensity and size of tropical cyclones, it has been overlooked in previous storm surge …

Destructive tsunami-like wave generated by surf beat over a coral reef during Typhoon Haiyan

V Roeber, JD Bricker - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Storm surges cause coastal inundation due to setup of the water surface resulting from
atmospheric pressure, surface winds and breaking waves. Here we show that during …

Tropical cyclone rainfall area controlled by relative sea surface temperature

Y Lin, M Zhao, M Zhang - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Tropical cyclone rainfall rates have been projected to increase in a warmer climate. The
area coverage of tropical cyclones influences their impact on human lives, yet little is known …

Dependence of US hurricane economic loss on maximum wind speed and storm size

AR Zhai, JH Jiang - Environmental Research Letters, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Many empirical hurricane economic loss models consider only wind speed and neglect
storm size. These models may be inadequate in accurately predicting the losses of super …

The outer-core wind structure of tropical cyclones

KTF Chan, JCL Chan - Journal of the Meteorological Society of …, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
This paper presents a summary of several seminal observational and numerical studies on
climatology and possible change mechanisms of the outer-core wind structure of a tropical …

Hurricane observations by uncrewed systems

C Zhang, GR Foltz, AM Chiodi… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
On 30 September 2021, a saildrone uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) was steered into
category 4 Hurricane Sam, the most intense storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. It …

Historically unprecedented Northern Gulf of Mexico hurricane activity from 650 to 1250 CE

JR Rodysill, JP Donnelly, R Sullivan, PD Lane… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Hurricane Michael (2018) was the first Category 5 storm on record to make landfall on the
Florida panhandle since at least 1851 CE (Common Era), and it resulted in the loss of 59 …

Impact of tropical cyclone landfall angle on storm surge along the Mid‐Atlantic bight

AN Ramos‐Valle, EN Curchitser… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Storm surge impact depends on coastal geographical and bathymetric features as well as
various tropical cyclone characteristics including the size, intensity, and impact angle of the …

Spatial variation of damage due to storm surge and waves during Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines

JD BRICKER, H TAKAGI, E MAS, S KURE… - 土木学会論文集 B2 …, 2014 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Field measurements and numerical simulations are used to assess the resons for different
types of water-related structural damage observed in Tacloban and Eastern Samar. Coastal …

Are inundation limit and maximum extent of sand useful for differentiating tsunamis and storms? An example from sediment transport simulations on the Sendai Plain …

M Watanabe, K Goto, JD Bricker, F Imamura - Sedimentary Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
We examined the quantitative difference in the distribution of tsunami and storm deposits
based on numerical simulations of inundation and sediment transport due to tsunami and …