Tropical Cyclone Destructive Potential by Integrated Kinetic Energy

“…Mississippi as the less intense Hurricane Katrina (Category 3), but produced lower surges due to 52 its smaller size 5,6,9 . Using only a storm's landfall characteristics to predict surges is also 53 inaccurate 10, 11 6 , as the evolution of the storm before and during landfall affects the surge.…”

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Physically based assessment of hurricane surge threat under climate change

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“…The SSHS (Table 1) has been used extensively for hurricane evacuation preparations and emergency response planning; however, there are respectable criticisms on the SSHS: (i) the scale is quantized, i.e., each hurricane category has a range of properties assigned to it and it saturates at the higher end, i.e., it is capped at Category 5 (Kantha 2006); (ii) the scale omits the influence of hurricane size (Powell and Reinhold 2007;Irish et al 2008;Kantha 2008); and (iii) the scale does not account for other important factors directly influencing surge generation, e.g., regional bathymetry (Irish and Resio 2010). Suggestions for improvements of the SSHS are centered on the common theme of incorporating additional influencing factors as they relate to both hurricane wind damage and storm surge flooding damage.…”

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“…The Powell and Reinhold (2007 Blake et al (2011). h HII = Hurricane Intensity Index; historical values from Powell and Reinhold (2007).…”

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“…The Powell and Reinhold (2007 Blake et al (2011). h HII = Hurricane Intensity Index; historical values from Powell and Reinhold (2007). i HHI = Hurricane Hazard Index; historical values from Kantha (2008 HII can be considered a guidance tool for evacuation preparations prior to landfall in that it directly accounts for hurricane intensity, viz.…”

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Coastal Flooding in Florida’s Big Bend Region with Application to Sea Level Rise Based on Synthetic Storms Analysis

Hagen¹,

Bacopoulos²

2012

Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci.

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Flooding is examined by comparing maximum envelopes of water against the 0.2% (= 1-in-500-year return-period) flooding surface generated as part of revising the Federal Emergency Management Agency's flood insurance rate maps for Franklin, Wakulla, and Jefferson counties in Florida's Big Bend Region. The analysis condenses the number of storms to a small fraction of the original 159 used in production. The analysis is performed by assessing which synthetic storms contributed to inundation extent (the extent of inundation into the floodplain), coverage (the overall surface area of the inundated floodplain) and the spatially variable 0.2% flooding surface. The results are interpreted in terms of storm attributes (pressure deficit, radius to maximum winds, translation speed, storm heading, and landfall location) and the physical processes occurring within the natural system (storms surge and waves); both are contextualized against existing and new hurricane scales.The approach identifies what types of storms and storm attributes lead to what types of inundation, as measured in terms of extent and coverage, in Florida's Big Bend Region and provides a basis in the identification of a select subset of synthetic storms for studying the impact of sea level rise. The sea level rise application provides a clear contrast between a dynamic approach versus that of a static approach.

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On tropical cyclone size and intensity changes associated with two types of long-lasting rainbands in monsoonal environments

Chen

Lee

Elsberry

2014

Geophys. Res. Lett.

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Tropical cyclones (TCs) in a monsoonal environment may have heavy rain events separate from the eyewall rainfall. Two types of long-lasting rainbands in western North Pacific TCs interacting with the East Asia summer monsoon during 1999-2009 are identified and the effects of these rainbands on TC size and intensity changes are examined. For all of the south-type Outer Mesoscale Convective Systems as defined in our previous study, the TC intensification rate is decreased but the rate of size change is not modified. Long-lasting south-type Enhanced Rainbands (ERBs) that develop between 100 and 300 km radii and move cyclonically are associated with significant TC size increases. Seventy percent of very large typhoons had an ERB during the period when they intensified from tropical storms to typhoons.

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Tropical Cyclone Destructive Potential by Integrated Kinetic Energy

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Physically based assessment of hurricane surge threat under climate change

Physically based assessment of hurricane surge threat under climate change

Coastal Flooding in Florida’s Big Bend Region with Application to Sea Level Rise Based on Synthetic Storms Analysis

On tropical cyclone size and intensity changes associated with two types of long-lasting rainbands in monsoonal environments

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