Women in disaster zones are frequently targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their vulnerability.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Tropical cyclones
Displaying 21 - 39 of 39 articles
Climate change is making hurricanes more destructive, and may have boosted the intensity of cyclone Idai that hit Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi.
The frequency of intense tropical cyclones is increasing in the South Indian Ocean, a region that previously didn’t have these.
Cyclone season approacheth, but this year there’s a twist
The Conversation, CC BY31.4 MB (download)
Australia must come to terms with some fundamental shifts in our weather patterns. This month, Andrew Watkins from the BOM and climate scientist Joelle Gergis explore what's in store.
An ‘ex-hurricane’ will hit the UK and Ireland for the second consecutive year.
How do experts know when and where the next big hurricane is going to hit? A look at the complicated science of forecasting.
Weather forecasters sounded the alarm for the record-breaking Hurricane Irma with several days’ notice.
The unpredictability of hurricanes makes it hard to say for sure whether climate change is making them worse. But we do know that sea-level rise and increased evaporation will worsen the impacts.
The global tropical climate zone is expanding. At the current rate, by 2100 its edge will stretch from Sydney to Perth.
The category 4 cyclone - the fifth storm of this year’s season, and the strongest so far - has buffeted the Queensland coast across a wide area centred on Airlie Beach.
Australia is facing an above-average cyclone season, with at least 11 cyclones likely in the region.
Everybody wants a quick shorthand for a storm’s damage potential. But the index we hear used most often isn’t the best option.
We’re no longer caught off guard when hurricanes make landfall, the way people were into the early 1900s. Better communications, measurements and observations all feed into better forecasts and more warning.
Forecasting successes can breed complacency in the general public. But all hurricane damage isn’t necessarily contained within the “cone of uncertainty.”
Natural disasters are becoming more frequent, with more people with less money exposed to a greater number of hazards.
A causal relationship between cyclone behaviour and anthropogenic global warming is a very real possibility. But most climate scientists hesitate to attribute any single event to global warming.
The devastation to Vanuatu left in the wake of Cyclone Pam shows small islands in the Pacific need a climate insurance scheme, similar to what has been achieved in the Caribbean.
We now have more people, infrastructure and assets exposed where tropical cyclones make landfall.
The average latitude at which tropical cyclones attain their maximum intensity has undergone a significant shift towards…
Top contributors
-
Head of Operational Climate Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
-
Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Professor of Physical Geography, James Cook University
-
Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
-
Adjunct Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
-
BOM, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
-
Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Mississippi State University
-
Associate Professor of Meteorology, Florida State University
-
Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
-
Professor of Marketing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
Professorial Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
Associate Professor, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL
-
Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
-
Principal Research Scientist, The University of Melbourne
