Records of extremely damaging storms in the United States during the years 1949-2006 were assessed to define their temporal distribution. A change in climate due to global warming may lead to more weather extremes, including storms. The aim
of this study was to learn if the frequency of highly damaging storms had increased. The number of storms at both loss levels has increased dramatically since 1990, and storm-related losses also increased. Much of the increased loss and greater storminess
was due to several recent hurricanes. The AA. speculate about the cause/s of changes in storms and losses : storm measurements and data collection have improved over time; natural variations in climate or a shift in climate due to global warming; society
Intra-storm attributes of extreme storm events in the Drakensberg, South Africa
Intra-storm rainfall attributes were analyzed for 49 extreme storm events at 5 locations in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg. Three stations located in the mountain foothills and two stations sited on the escarpment edge above 2800 m a.s.l. provide
the first detailed intra-storm data for the Drakensberg. Extreme rainfall events were found to vary in duration and in depth, but all stations measure a clear exponential distribution of cumulative kinetic energy content of storm rainfall over time. Further
research is needed to ascertain the association between storm structure and synoptic conditions, as well as the actual effect that within-storm distribution of rainfall has on runoff and soil detachment.
Considering the importance of the dust storm phenomenon in the regional and global climatological context, this study sets out to examine the relationship between annual and interannual fluctuations in dust storm frequency and rainfall
Hillslope failure and sediment yield in japanese regions with different storm intensity
This paper discusses the effects of storm intensity on the magnitudes of slope failure and sediment yields in Japan. Data were analyzed for 813 river basins that experienced storm-induced failure as well as 30 basins with sediment yield data
. The basins were grouped into 3 categories according to storm intensity to examine the relation between rainfall and erosion magnitudes. Slope-failure magnitudes and sediment yields are also affected by hillslope inclination. The effect of hillslope
inclination is stronger than that of storm intensity.
Beyond twister : a geography of recreational storm chasing on the Southern Plains
Leisure ; Recreation geography ; Storm ; Tornado ; United States of America
Description géographique des loisirs de storm chasing dans les Plaines du Sud et examen des questions soulevées par les fervents de longue date concernant la représentation et la popularisation de cette activité.
Dynamics of soil carbon dioxide during a storm event
Carbon dioxide ; Hydrochemistry ; Hydrogeology ; Japan ; Soil ; Soil water ; Storm
In this report the AA. show the results of an intensive field measurement on CO2 concentration in soil air during a large storm event and discuss the influences of soil environmental factors on the CO2 dynamics.
When a storm tide coincides with an exceptionally high astronomical tide and shallow water depths, the results may be catastrophic. The record of storm tides is knowable, and they may be predictable in the Gulf of Maine-Bay of Fundy region. The AA
. begin with a look at some of the events associated with the most historically memorable Fundy storm tide, the Saxby Tide of 4-5 October 1869.
Profile response of a lacustrine multiple barred nearshore to a sequence of storm events
The aim of this study is to characterize the response of a lacustrine multiple-barred nearshore to a sequence of storm and non-storm events at the intermediate scale. The feedback mechanisms between the pre-existing morphology and the wave forcing
are identified and the consequence of those feedbacks to the behaviour of the nearshore environment over a sequence of storm events is explored at Burley Beach on the southeastern shore of Lake Huron, over the ice-free season of 2001/2002.
The influence of different underlying surface on sand-dust storm in northern China
Arid area ; China ; Duricrust ; Dust storm ; Lithology ; Northern China ; Sand ; Surface deposits ; Wind
In this paper, a quantitative research on the relationship between different underlying surface and sand-dust storm has been made by using 40 years meteorological data of 5 different types of underlying surface in northern China, which include
farmland, grassland, sandland, gobi and salt crust. These data comprise sand-dust storm days and strong wind days. The AA. find that there are certain correlations between the days of sand-dust storm and strong wind for different underlying surfaces, which
has great influence on sand-dust storm. There are pronounced differences in different types of underlying surface.
Dust storms evolution in Taklimakan Desert and its correlation with climatic parameters
Arid area ; China ; Climate ; Climatic data ; Desert ; Dust storm ; Human impact ; Precipitation ; Temperature ; Wind speed ; Xinjiang
Based on the sand dust storms data and climatic data in 12 meteorological stations around sand dust storm originating areas of the Taklimakan Desert, the AA. analyzed the trends of the number of dust storm days from 1960 to 2005 as well
as their correlations with temperature, precipitation, wind speed and the number of days with mean wind speed >5 m/s, to determine the influence of climatic parameters on sand dust storms. The results show that the frequency of dust storm events in the Taklimakan region
decreased with the elapse of time. Climatic factor is one of the major conditions for the occurrence of sand dust storm, but not the only one. The disturbance of human activities will become another important trigger for China's frequent sand dust storms.
This study investigates the morphological impacts of the 1872 Baltic storm flood on a beach-ridge system (sandy spit) in south-eastern Denmark and evaluates the frequency of extreme storm flood events in the area over a longer time perspective
4500 years of accumulation; the storm flood sediments described are unique suggesting that the 1872 Baltic storm flood event was an extreme event. Thus studies of beach-ridge systems form a new source for understanding storm surge risk.
Patterns of ice accumulation and forest disturbance during two ice storms in southwestern Virginia
Appalachian Mountains ; Forest ; Ice ; Mountain ; Slope exposure ; Storm ; United States of America ; Vegetation degradation ; Virginia ; Weather type
This paper discusses multiple scales of ice accumulation and forest disturbance resulting from the 1994 storms in southwestern Virginia. The AA. first examine synoptic-scale meteorology of the two 1994 storms. Second, they discuss topographic
variations in forest damage. Third, they quantify the level of canopy disturbance in several damage stands. Finally, they compare patterns of damage associated with the 1994 events to those produced by several other ice storms.
Sand dust storms in and around the Ordos Plateau of China as influenced by land use change and desertification
Aeolian features ; Arid area ; China ; Desertification ; Dust storm ; Inner Mongolia ; Land use ; Shaanxi ; Soil degradation ; Wind erosion
The A. reports a non-linear relationship between sand-dust storm frequency and the index of land degradation which is defined as the percentage of the area of total land that is desertified. Using this non-linear relationship, a threshold
is established which means that sand-dust storm frequency would increase abruptly when the human-induced exceeds 30%. The time series of annual number of sand-dust storm days in the neighbouring area has been compared to the time series in the annual number
Discussion of simultaneous measurement of storm rainfall and resulting runoff during individual storms made in small basins in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, over a period of ten years. Using lag time relations, synthetic hydrograph
construction shows the effect of urbanization on peak discharge from a given storm.
The characteristics of rain storms and their distribution over the Loess Plateau.
Rainstorms are defined as falls of over 55 mm in 24 hours with initial intensity of 0.78 mm per minute (i.e. 3.9 mm in the first 5 minutes). The distinctive features of rain storms and their spatial pattern over the Loess region are presented
Sediment loads in an Australian dust storm: implications for present and past dust processes
Arid area ; Australia ; Desert ; Dust storm ; Model ; Queensland ; Soil erosion ; Suspended load ; Wind erosion
The purpose of this paper is to quantify the amount of dust moved in a dust storm in Western Queensland in 1987, and to describe the environmental effects (present and past) of dust entrainment, transport and deposition in the Australian region.
An instrument analyzing continuously the microseisms between 5 and 7 s from a long-period seismometer has been built for that purpose. It is concluded that the continuous analysis of microseisms is useful to trigger preliminary alarms for storm
Regionalisation of hydrological data. Effects of lithology and land use on storm runoff in east Luxembourg.
The main objective of this study is to classify catchment storm runoff response as a function of lithology and land use, to relate this classification to dynamic hydrological processes and to make a statement about the feasibility of effectively
predicting storm runoff in the eastern part of Luxembourg as a function of within-catchment changes in land use. - (AGD)
Tropical Storm Gamma and the Mosquitia of eastern Honduras : a little-known story from the 2005 hurricane season
The article recounts the history of these storms in the Afro-Caribbean community of Batalla, drawing from public weather advisories and testimony of local residents obtained through participatory research. This local history is contextualised
with results from the first paleotempestological study undertaken in the Mosquitia to shed light on long-term risk of catastrophic storms in the region and to demonstrate the value of integrating these two research approaches.