climatic hazards
- Created by: OliverAnderrson
- Created on: 28-02-17 10:43
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- Hurricanes and Typhoons
- Physical Causes and Conditions
- Sea temperature of over 26.5°C
- allows energetic evaporation to take place and more latent heat released from condenstaion
- Latent heat released by condensation heats the surrounding air, causiung it to rsie and condense higher, increasing the size and water content of the storm's clouds
- allows energetic evaporation to take place and more latent heat released from condenstaion
- Sea depth of over 60m
- Warmer band at the surface prevents colder water mixing with it
- the cold band can't evaporate as easily so would kill the storm.
- Warmer band at the surface prevents colder water mixing with it
- Extremely low pressure depressions
- Allows air to rise, form clouds and condense, creating very heavy rainfall
- 5° - 20° latitude north or south of the equator
- Warm, deep seas close to the equator
- Far enough from the equator that the Coriolis effect causes the system to spin
- Sea temperature of over 26.5°C
- Katrina
- Impacts
- Environment
- Louisiana's $12 billion forestry industry was lost as a result of string winds and flood water causing deforestation
- This lead to 21,000 unemployed 21,000 timber workers
- Louisiana's $12 billion forestry industry was lost as a result of string winds and flood water causing deforestation
- Politics
- Slow response by FEMA and George Bush's government aid meant he lost popularity and lost the presidency in the next elections
- Bush originally prevented any international aid
- Slow response by FEMA and George Bush's government aid meant he lost popularity and lost the presidency in the next elections
- Society
- 1700 people died - the most deadly US storm since 1930
- Economy
- $150 billion total losses
- Environment
- Human Causes
- Responses and Management
- FEMA deployed after national state of emergency declared.
- Trained responders helped resuce trapped poeple
- Government cuts prior to the disaster meant their resposne was inadequate
- Slow response by FEMA and George Bush's government aid meant he lost popularity and lost the presidency in the next elections
- Bush originally prevented any international aid
- Slow response by FEMA and George Bush's government aid meant he lost popularity and lost the presidency in the next elections
- FEMA deployed after national state of emergency declared.
- Impacts
- Mitch
- Haiyan
- Physical Causes and Conditions
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