Geography Case Study TRS
- Created by: michaelhall10
- Created on: 29-02-16 10:39
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- Tropical Revolving Storms
- Haiyan
- Hit the Philippians on the 8th of November 2013
- 5000 people died out of a population of 98 million
- 200 still missing
- 4.5 million homeless due to 3 million houses being destroyed by the storm
- 200 tonnes of aid given and the UK gave £10 million
- 8000 typhoid injections
- The cost of the damage amounted to £3.6 Bn
- Gulf stream was 3C warmer increasing the severity of the storm
- Sandy
- 203 people died out of a population of 8.1 million
- There was already a storm called Noreaster which fuelled Sandy
- No presence of the Bermuda high (an anti cyclone that forms over the US) that would've divereted the storm
- 20,000 999 calls per hour
- Sub way shut for the first time in 20 years
- No electricity
- 111 homes out of 2800 survived
- Ocured on the 22 of octobre 2012
- Also caused due to the 3oC increase in the temperature of the jet stream
- $50Bn worth of damage
- Ingredient of a TRS
- 50-70m of water
- 27C water temprature
- 5-20o N and S of the Equator
- Corioliss effect causes the TRS to spin
- Low pressure
- Haiyan
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