Tropical Revolving Storm Research Paper
To what extent are the impacts of Tropical Revolving storms determined by human factors rather than physical factors? (40marks)
A tropical revolving storm is a huge and extremely violent tropical storm which can be up to 500km in diameter. The Coriolis force is the driving force behind the spinning of these storms creating a lot of the storms power. These TRS are either known as hurricanes in the North Atlantic Region or Typhoons in the South East Asia region. However to become a TRS they have to have an average wind speed of 120mph plus. They form all along the tropical regions with the highest area receiving these storms found in south east Asia with this area in particular receiving 30% of all the worlds TRS.
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The hurricane force winds can cause a rise in tide level so the highest sea level could be potentially up to 3m higher than the highest high tide. This can then easily cause mass damage as it sweeps inland, flooding low lying areas and settlements. The storm surge is also the aspect of the storm which causes the most deaths.
As well as this strong winds are another physical factor to take into consideration due to average winds having to be over 120mph. This can easily sweep people of their feet and subsequently cause major damage to structures. With the last hazard coming from the mass rainfall and therefore flash flooding which will occur with it. This is due to the storm loosing energy as it meets land fall which in turn causes it to release a lot of the moisture and water being held.
However all this being said, when we compare two storms of the same category/ magnitude in the saffir-simpson scale we can see that the impacts are never the same and in some cases extremely differing. Which then suggests not only physical factors play a part in the impacts but so do human. However due to the vast differences in some case studies we can say that potentially human factors are more prominent when it comes to the actual impacts the storm will
A tropical revolving storm is a huge and extremely violent tropical storm which can be up to 500km in diameter. The Coriolis force is the driving force behind the spinning of these storms creating a lot of the storms power. These TRS are either known as hurricanes in the North Atlantic Region or Typhoons in the South East Asia region. However to become a TRS they have to have an average wind speed of 120mph plus. They form all along the tropical regions with the highest area receiving these storms found in south east Asia with this area in particular receiving 30% of all the worlds TRS.
Tropical revolving storms …show more content…
The hurricane force winds can cause a rise in tide level so the highest sea level could be potentially up to 3m higher than the highest high tide. This can then easily cause mass damage as it sweeps inland, flooding low lying areas and settlements. The storm surge is also the aspect of the storm which causes the most deaths.
As well as this strong winds are another physical factor to take into consideration due to average winds having to be over 120mph. This can easily sweep people of their feet and subsequently cause major damage to structures. With the last hazard coming from the mass rainfall and therefore flash flooding which will occur with it. This is due to the storm loosing energy as it meets land fall which in turn causes it to release a lot of the moisture and water being held.
However all this being said, when we compare two storms of the same category/ magnitude in the saffir-simpson scale we can see that the impacts are never the same and in some cases extremely differing. Which then suggests not only physical factors play a part in the impacts but so do human. However due to the vast differences in some case studies we can say that potentially human factors are more prominent when it comes to the actual impacts the storm will