Geography Tropical Storms Monitoring, Planning, Prediction and Protecting.
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- Created on: 06-08-21 18:11
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- MPPP for Tropical storms
- Monitoring
- Specially equipped aircraft can fly into the storm to collect data like windspeed.
- Satellites can look for a classic cloud pattern which is associated with tropical storms.
- Planning
- 'National hurricane preparedness week'
- Encourages people to:
- Have fuel in their tanks
- Prepare disaster supply kits
- Encourages people to:
- Future developments can avoid high risk areas.
- 'National hurricane preparedness week'
- Predicting
- Supercomputers can be fed data and then predict the path and intensity of tropical storms.
- National hurricane centres issue early warnings so people can evacuate.
- Track cones... around 70 percent of hurricanes occur within the predicted cone.
- National hurricane centres issue early warnings so people can evacuate.
- Track cones... around 70 percent of hurricanes occur within the predicted cone.
- Supercomputers can be fed data and then predict the path and intensity of tropical storms.
- Protection
- Coastal flood defences can be built
- Such as levées
- People are advised to install storm shutters, remove trees close to buildings, tie down objects and install hurricane straps.
- Buildings can be built to withstand winds
- Coastal flood defences can be built
- Monitoring
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