Is Tropical Cyclone Surge, Not Intensity, What Kills So Many People in South Asia?

This paper statistically examines the hypothesis that the level of storm surge, not storm intensity, is primarily responsible for the large number of tropical cyclone fatalities in SouthAsia. Because the potential causal link between intensity and surge can confound statistical inference, the author...

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Main Authors: Seo, S. Niggol, Bakkensen, Laura A.
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Sch Govt & Publ Policy
Language:en
Published: AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624033
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/624033