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Hurricanes and typhoons : past, present, and future / edited by Richard J. Murnane and Kam-biu Liu.

Murnane, Richard J. (Added Author). Liu, Kam-biu. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0231123884 (hc : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xii, 462 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 Ancient records of typhoons in Chinese historical documents / Kin-sheun Louie and Kam-biu Liu -- 9.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.