This book surveys the past, present, and potential future
variability of hurricanes and typhoons on a variety of timescales
using newly developed approaches based on geological and archival
records, in addition to more traditional approaches based on the
analysis of the historical record of tropical cyclone tracks. A
unique aspect of the book is that it provides an overview of the
developing field of paleotempestology, which uses geological,
biological, and documentary evidence to reconstruct prehistoric
changes in hurricane landfall. The book also presents a
particularly wide sampling of ongoing efforts to extend the best
track data sets using historical material from many sources,
including Chinese archives, British naval logbooks, Spanish
colonial records, and early diaries from South Carolina.
The book will be of particular interest to tropical
meteorologists, geologists, and climatologists as well as to the
catastrophe reinsurance industry, graduate students in meteorology,
and public employees active in planning and emergency
management.
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