Hurricanes and typhoons
Subtitle: from the field records to the forecast
By: guest editors, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Tina M. Niemi
Contributors: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies. Meeting
Series: Quaternary international -- v. 195
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Hurricanes; Congresses; Typhoons; Environmental archaeology; Paleoclimatology; Taifun; Hurrikan
Notes: Chiefly papers originally presented at a workshop at the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies meeting, Sept. 25-28, 2006 in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hurricanes and typhoons : From the field records to the forecast  -- S.A.G. Leroy and T.M. Niemi; title: Atlantic hurricanes-Testing impacts of local SSTs, ENSO, stratospheric QBO-Implications for global warming  -- K. Arpe and S.A.G. Leroy; title: The sedimentary record of the 2005 hurricane season from the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines  -- B.P. Horton, V. Rossi and A.D. Hawkes; title: The impact of North Atlantic storminess on western European coasts : A review  -- M.L. Clarke and H.M. Rendell; title: Magnitude and frequency of extra-tropical North Atlantic cyclones : A chronology from cliff-top storm deposits  -- J.D. Hansom and A.M. Hall; title: 5000 year sedimentary record of hurricane strikes on the central coast of Belize  -- T.A. McCloskey and G. Keller; title: Tsunamis, hurricanes, and the demise of coral reefs and shifts in prehistoric human populations in the Caribbean -- S.R. Scheffers, J. Haviser, T. Browne and A. Scheffers; title: Paleoecological record of hurricane disturbance and forest regeneration in Nicaragua  -- G.R. Urquhart; title: After the hurricane hits : Recovery and response to large storm events in saline lake, San Salvador Island, Bahamas  -- L.E. Park, F.D. Siewers, T. Metzger and S. Sipahioglu; title: Hindcasting typhoons in Micronesia : Experiences from ethnographic and historic records  -- D.H.R. Spennemann; title: High-precision U-series dating of very young cyclone-transported coral reef blocks from Heron and Wistari reefs, southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia  -- J.-x. Zhao, D.T. Neil, Y.-x. Feng, K.-f. Yu and J.M. Pandolfi; title: Reconstruction of storm/tsunami records over the last 4000 years using transported coral blocks and lagoon sediments in the southern South China Sea  -- K.-F. Yu, J.-X. Zhao, Q. Shi and Q.-S. Meng; title: Potential consequences of a Mid-Pleistocene impact event for the Middle Stone Age occupants of Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt ; title: J.R. Smith, M.R. Kleindienst, H.P. Schwarcz, C.S. Churcher, J.M. Kieniewicz, G.R. Osinski and A.F.C. Haldemann; title: Comment on : "Impact of the 1960 major subduction earthquake in Northern Patagonia (Chile, Argentina)" Quarternary Int. 158 (2006) 58-71 -- S. Ribeiro Guevara and M. Arribére.