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Citation
(1999), "Severe weather and el niõo", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 8 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.1999.07308eag.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
Severe weather and el niõo
SEVERE WEATHER AND EL NIÑO
The Extreme Weather Source Book
http://www.dir.ucar.edu/esig/HP_roger/sourcebook
This National Center for Atmospheric Research Web page, entitled The Extreme Weather Source book, reports economic costs extreme weather - hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes - by state and US territory. The information is in constant 1997 dollars, simplifying comparisons among extreme weather impacts and among states or regions. The site ranks the states and territories in order of economic losses due to each type of hazard and all three hazards combined. A dollar figure for the average annual cost in each category for each state is also provided. Links take the reader to graphs with more detailed information on cost per year for each state and each hazard.
"NOVA Online"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/
Via its Web site, Public Broadcasting's "NOVA Online" offers an excellent section on El Ni·o/La Ni·a that provides not only much information about this global weather determinant, but also useful (and fun) interactive links, such as a global map that a person can use (just click on the region in which you are interested) to determine El Ni·o effects in a given area.
Weather World 2010
http://ww2OlO.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/home.rxmlhttp://ww2OlO.atnws.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml
The Weather World 2010 Web site, created by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, hosts a wealth of information on weather, integrating real-time and archived data with instructional resources and using new, interactive technologies. The site includes a multimedia "Online Meteorology Guide", with modules on such specific phenomena as clouds and precipitation, forces and winds, air masses and fronts, weather forecasting, severe storms, El Ni·o, and, at the second URL above, hurricanes.
Storm Display Web site
Through a partnership with NASA and FEMA, NBC4 WRC-TV in Washington, DC, has created this Storm Display Web site - a real-time weather display system that shows all of the currently valid National Weather Service watches, warnings, and advisories. The site also includes highly detailed hurricane and tropical storm tracking information taken directly from the Tropical Prediction Center (TPC) in Miami. Earthquakes are also plotted when they occur.