Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Typhoons Affecting Taiwan: Current Understanding and Future Challenges

Typhoons Affecting Taiwan: Current Understanding and Future Challenges Of all the natural disasters occurring in Taiwan, tropical cyclones are the most serious. Over a 20-yr period, Taiwan was hit by an average of 3.7 typhoons per year. These storms can produce heavy rainfall and strong winds, leading to severe damage to agriculture and industry, and serious loss of human life. An outstanding example is Typhoon Herb, which made landfall in Taiwan on 31 July 1996. Typhoon Herb took 70 lives and caused an estimated 5 billion of damage to agriculture and property.Accurate prediction of the track, intensity, precipitation, and strong winds for typhoons affecting Taiwan is not an easy task. The lack of meteorological data over the vast Pacific Ocean and the strong interaction between typhoon circulation and Taiwan's mesoscale Central Mountain range are two major factors that make the forecasting of typhoons in the vicinity of Taiwan highly challenging. Improved understanding of the dynamics of typhoon circulation and their interaction with the Taiwan terrain is needed for more accurate prediction. With this objective in mind, the National Science Council in Taiwan sponsored the Workshop on Typhoon Research in the Taiwan Area at Boulder, Colorado, on 1718 May 1997. In this paper, the authors review the observational and numerical studies of typhoons affecting Taiwan, present some preliminary results from the study of Typhoon Herb, summarize the recommendations obtained from the workshop, and provide suggestions for future research. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society American Meteorological Society

Typhoons Affecting Taiwan: Current Understanding and Future Challenges

Download PDF
14 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-meteorological-society/typhoons-affecting-taiwan-current-understanding-and-future-challenges-8yGribHQMR
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
Copyright
Copyright © American Meteorological Society
ISSN
1520-0477
DOI
10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<0067:TATCUA>2.0.CO;2
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Of all the natural disasters occurring in Taiwan, tropical cyclones are the most serious. Over a 20-yr period, Taiwan was hit by an average of 3.7 typhoons per year. These storms can produce heavy rainfall and strong winds, leading to severe damage to agriculture and industry, and serious loss of human life. An outstanding example is Typhoon Herb, which made landfall in Taiwan on 31 July 1996. Typhoon Herb took 70 lives and caused an estimated 5 billion of damage to agriculture and property.Accurate prediction of the track, intensity, precipitation, and strong winds for typhoons affecting Taiwan is not an easy task. The lack of meteorological data over the vast Pacific Ocean and the strong interaction between typhoon circulation and Taiwan's mesoscale Central Mountain range are two major factors that make the forecasting of typhoons in the vicinity of Taiwan highly challenging. Improved understanding of the dynamics of typhoon circulation and their interaction with the Taiwan terrain is needed for more accurate prediction. With this objective in mind, the National Science Council in Taiwan sponsored the Workshop on Typhoon Research in the Taiwan Area at Boulder, Colorado, on 1718 May 1997. In this paper, the authors review the observational and numerical studies of typhoons affecting Taiwan, present some preliminary results from the study of Typhoon Herb, summarize the recommendations obtained from the workshop, and provide suggestions for future research.

Journal

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society – American Meteorological Society

Published: Jan 8, 1999

There are no references for this article.