Revising evidence of hurricane strikes on Abaco Island (The Bahamas) over the last 700 years
| Autor: | E. J. Wallace, Richard Sullivan, T. S. Winkler, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, Dana MacDonald, Peter J. van Hengstum, Nancy A. Albury |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Atlantic hurricane
Multidisciplinary 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Science Natural hazards Palaeoclimate 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Article Spatial heterogeneity Oceanography Geography Palaeoceanography Natural hazard Medicine Stochastic forcing 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-020-73132-x |
| Popis: | The northern Bahamas have experienced more frequent intense-hurricane impacts than almost anywhere else in the Atlantic since 1850 CE. In 2019, category 5 (Saffir-Simpson scale) Hurricane Dorian demonstrated the destructive potential of these natural hazards. Problematically, determining whether high hurricane activity levels remained constant through time is difficult given the short observational record ( |
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