STORMS, VOLUMES I AND II

CONTENTS

List of figures ix
List of plates xix
List of tables xxi
List of boxes xxiii
Notes on contributors xiv
Series foreword xxvii


VOLUME I
PART I     STORM SCIENCE AND SOCIETAL VULNERABILITY 1
  1. INTRODUCTION TO STORMS
    Roger A. Pielke, Jr. and Roger A. Pielke, Sr.
3
 
  1. VULNERABILITY TO DISASTER AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
    A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING VULNERABILITY
    Mary B. Anderson
11
 
 
  1. TARGETING HOUSEHOLDS AT RISK FOR STORMS:
    COMMUNITY VULNERABILITY MAPPING
    Betty Hearn Morrow
26
 
 
  1. THE WMO AND GLOBAL RESPONSE TO STORMS
    Robert Landis
42
 
  1. SEVERE STORMS AND THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY
    David L. Malmquist and Anthony F. Michaels
54
 
  1. STORM FORECASTING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE:
    A UNITED STATES PERSPECTIVE
    Donald R. Wernly and Louis W. Uccellini
70
 
 
  1. SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS
    B.E. Aguirre
98
 
  1. ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS IN WEATHER PREDICTION
    R.E. Carbone
109
 
  1. SHORT-TERM CLIMATE VARIATIONS:
    RECENT ACCOMPLISHEMENTS AND ISSUES FOR FUTURE PROGRESS
    Kevin E. Trenberth
126
 
 
PART II     TROPICAL CYCLONES 143
  1. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TROPICAL CYCLONES
    William M. Gray
145
 
  1. GEOGRAPHIC IMPACTS OF TROPICAL CYCLONES
    Charles Neumann
164
 
  1. TROPICAL CYCLONES DURING AND AFTER LANDFALL
    Mark D. Powell
196
 
  1. CLIMATE VARIABILITY OF TROPICAL CYCLONES:
    PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
    Christopher W. Landsea
220
 
 
  1. WIND ENGINEERING AS RELATED TO TROPICAL CYCLONES
    Leighton Cochran
242
 
  1. TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING-RESPONSE STRATEGIES
    Robert L Southern
259
 
  1. HURRICANE EVACUATION IN THE UNITED STATES
    Earl J. Baker
306
 
  1. TROPICAL CYCLONE IMPACTS IN AUSTRALIA
    Gary R. Foley
320
 
  1. TROPICAL CYCLONE IMPACTS IN INDIA AND NEIGHBOURHOOD
    S. Raghavan and A.K. Sen Sarma
339
 
  1. TROPICAL CYCLONE IMPACTS IN CHINA
    Lianshou Chen
357
 
  1. REFRAMING THE US HURRICANE PROBLEM
    Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
386
 
PART III     EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES 339
  1. OVERVIEW OF EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES
    Robert E. Davis, Patrick J. Michaels and Bruce P. Hayden
401
 
  1. STORMS AND THE COAST
    Orrin H. Pilkey, David M. Bush and William J. Neal
427
 
  1. WINDSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES
    John F. Weaver
449
 
  1. THE STRUCTURE, EFFECTS AND FORECASTING OF ICE STORMS
    Douglas A. Wesley
461
 
  1. FLOODING FROM EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES
    Kenneth E. Kunkel
477
 
  1. WINTER STORMS OVER CANADA
    R.E. Stewart, D. Bachand, R.R. Dunkley, A.C. Giles, B. Lawson, L. Legal, S.T. Miller,
    B.P. Murphy, M.N. Parker, B.J. Paruk and M.K. Yau
491
 
 
  1. WINTER STORMS IN RUSSIA
    Natalia Chakina
506
 
  1. IMPACTS OF EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES IN CUBA
    Lino R. Naranjo-Diaz
526
 
  1. FLOOD FORECASTING IN THE LOWER MEKONG BASIN
    Thanongdeth Insisiengmay
539
 
  1. CLIMATE CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FLOODING IN CHANGJIANG, CHINA
    Wang Shou Wu
546
 
Index 555


VOLUME II
PART IV     MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS 1
  1. AN OVERVIEW OF MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS
    William R. Cotton
3
 
  1. ISSUES IN FORECASTING MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS:
    AN OBSERVATIONAL AND MODELING PERSPECTIVE
    Conrad L. Ziegler
26
 
 
  1. THUNDERSTORMS IN SOCIAL CONTEXT
    David A. Etkin and Mary Fran Myers
43
 
  1. LIGHTNING
    Walter A. Lyons
60
 
  1. FLASH FLOODS ASSOCIATED WITH CONVECTIVE STORMS
    Mark Hjelmfelt
80
 
  1. TORNADOES
    Joseph H. Golden
103
 
  1. HAILSTORMS
    H.H. Schiesser and A. Waldvogel
133
 
  1. MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS OVER SOUTH AFRICA
    Michael Garstang and Peter Tyson
146
 
  1. IMPACTS OF HAIL IN THE UNITED STATES
    Stanley A. Changnon
163
 
  1. FLASH FLOODS IN THE UNITED STATES
    Eve Gruntfest
192
 
  1. STORMS IN BRAZIL
    Maria A. F. Silva Dias
207
 
  1. MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM IMPACTS IN MEXICO
    Humberto Rodriguez
220
 
  1. PROGRESS IN UNDERSTANING WINDSHEAR AND IMPLICATIONS ON AVIATION
    Robert J. Serafin, James W. Wilson, John McCarthy and T. Theodore Fujita
237
 
PART V     OTHER STORMS 253
  1. POLAR LOWS
    Erik A. Rasmussen
255
 
  1. RECENT RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE SOUTH ASIAN MONSOON
    T.N. Krishnamurti, Vasubandhu Misra, Bhaskar Jha and Mukul Tewari
270
 
  1. SPACE WEATHER PREDICTION
    Nelson C. Maynard
311
 
  1. THE CHANGING FREQUENCY OF DUST STORMS THROUGH TIME
    A.S. Goudie and N.J. Middleton
322
 
Index 341


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