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Ocean-atmosphere interactions during cyclone Nargis

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Title Ocean-atmosphere interactions during cyclone Nargis
 
Creator McPhaden, M.J.
Foltz, G.R.
Lee, T.
Murty, V.S.N.
Ravichandran, M.
Vecchi, G.A.
Vialard, J.
Wiggert, J.D.
Yu, L.
 
Subject cyclone Nargis
Indian Ocean
 
Description Cyclone Nargis (Figure 1a) made landfall in Myanmar (formerly Burma) on 2 May 2008 with sustained winds of approximately 210 kilometers per hour, equivalent to a category 3-4 hurricane. In addition, Nargis brought approximately 600 millimeters of rain and a storm surge of 3-4 meters to the low-lying and densely populated Irrawaddy River delta. In its wake, the storm left an estimated 130,000 dead or missing and more than $10 billion in economic losses. It was the worst natural disaster to strike the Indian Ocean region since the 26 December 2004 tsunami and the worst recorded natural disaster ever to affect Myanmar
 
Date 2009-07-28T06:26:47Z
2009-07-28T06:26:47Z
2009
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Eos: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol.90(7); 53-60
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/3373
 
Language en
 
Rights An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright [2009] AGU. To view the published open abstract, go to http://dx.doi.org and enter the DOI.
 
Publisher American Geophysical Union