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Meteorological hazards

1
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Major types of tropical cyclone:

61 km/h or less

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WIND SIGNAL NUMBER 1:
Tropical Depression (TD)

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Major types of tropical cyclone:

62-88 km/h

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WIND SIGNAL NUMBER 2:
Tropical Storm (ST)

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Major types of tropical cyclone:

89-117 km/h

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WIND SIGNAL NUMBER 3:
Sever Tropical Storm (STS)

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Major types of tropical cyclone:

118-220 km/h

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WIND SIGNAL NUMBER 4:
Typhoon (TY)

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Major types of tropical cyclone:

220 km/h or higher

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WIND SIGNAL NUMBER 5:
Super Typhoon (STY)

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Typhoon are build from

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1.) Strong Winds
2.) Heavy Rains
3.) Central low pressure area

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Are processes or phenomena of atmospheric, hydrological, or oceonographic nature

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Hydrometeorological Hazards

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May cause of loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damages, loss of livelihoods, and services, social and economic disruptions, or even environmental damages.

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Hazards

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A powerful spinning storm that contains strong winds and rains.

An intense low pressure system which is characterized by strong spiral winds towards the center, called “eye” in a COUNTER CLOCKWISE flow

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CYCLONE

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Counter clockwise flow in the NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

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CYCLONE

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A large, powerful and violent tropical cyclone.

It is a low pressure area rotation counter clockwise and containing rising warm air that forms in the WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN.

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TYPHOON

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INGRIDIENTS IN TROPICAL CYCLONE
FORMATION

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1.) Deep ocean water
2.) Warm sea temperature
3.) Coriolis force

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13
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Water evaporates from the ocean surface and comes in contact with mass of cold air, forming clouds

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Deep ocean water

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A column of low pressure develops at the center. Winds form around the column

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Warm sea temperature

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A pressure in the central column (the EYE) weakens, the speed around it increases.

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Coriolosis Force

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WHY DO TROPICAL CYCLONES FORM?

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REDISTRIBUTION OF HEAT through wind from the equatorial regions to polar regions.

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17
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Localized unusual of sea water level beyond the predicted astronomical tide levels

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Storm surge

18
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A weather condition that produces lightning and thunder, heavy rainfall, from COMULONIMBUS CLOUDS and possibly a tornato

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Thunderstorm

19
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Formed when raindrops are carried upward by thunderstorm updrafts into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere and freeze.

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Hail storm

20
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A violently rotating column of air touching the ground, usually attached to the base of a thunderstorm.

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Tornado

21
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Is the inundation of land areas where are not normally covered by water.
Normally caused by temporary rise or over flowing of a river, streath, water course, etc.

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Flood

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FLOOD TYPES

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  1. Riverine
  2. Estuarine and Coastal
  3. Urban flooding
  4. Catastrophic
  5. Flash flood
23
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Increase in river water levels

Extreme and sustained rainfall

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Riverine

24
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Storm surges

Unusually High Tides

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Estuarine and Coastal

25
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Large area of impermeable surfaces

Man-made causes

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Urban flooding

26
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Ground failure, Liquefaction, Landslide that may triggered by natural disasters

Breakage of Dams

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Catastrophic

27
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ENSO

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El Nino Southern Oscillation

28
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Cyclic fluctuation of warm and and cold sea surface temperatures and atmospheric pressure in the central and eastern equatorial pacific.

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ENSO

29
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Causes extreme regional-scale Weather and Climate pattern changes

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ENSO

30
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EL NINO MEANS?

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Little boy

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La NINA MEANS?

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Little girl

32
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Most powerful climatic force on earth

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El Nino and La Nina

33
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Warm phase of climate where hair is evidence to everyone

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El Nino

34
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Cold phase that can affect the ground for a very long time.

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La Nina

35
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Last for 9 months to 2 years starts between DECEMBER to FEBRUARY

occurs every 2-9 years

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El Nino

36
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Lasts 1 to 3 years

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La Nina

37
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Clockwise rotation

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Southern Hemisphere

38
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Counter Clockwise rotation

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Northern Hemisphere

39
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Short term

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Typhoon
Coastal and Riverbank erosion
flood
Thunderstorm
Storm surges

40
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Long term

A

El nino
La nina
Enso cycle

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