24 September 2009
The special volume, due to be released in November, will be about climate change and tropical cyclones with an emphasis on the Indian Ocean.
It will highlight the probability of major changes in tropical cyclone activity across the various ocean basins.
The Indian Ocean, including the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, are of particular concern because of the high population density along their coastlines.
The book aims to reveal the scientific bases of the extreme events and the complexities inherent in combating their hazardous impact.
The articles are authored by leading experts, both from research and operational meteorological environments. The book is intended as a first step towards an ongoing international focus on potential impact of climate change in the Indian Ocean.
Topics are related to the current status of operational tropical cyclone forecasting and early warning systems, tropical cyclone genesis, assessment of risk and vulnerability from tropical cyclones and disaster preparedness, management and reduction.
“The volume addresses all aspects of global climate change impact on tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean, including documentation of past high impact events, archival maintenance, reconstruction and quality of best track data sets,” Charabi explained.
“Particularly discussed are forecasting, emergency response and impact of Tropical Cyclone Gonu which made a landfall in Oman in 2007, Tropical Cyclone Nargis (Myanmar 2008) and Tropical Cyclone SIDR (Bangladesh 2007),” he added.
Charabi’s main research interests are in applied climatology and meteorology.
He is the author of more than 20 scientific publications.
Dr Yassine was in the scientific organising committee of the First International Conference on Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change, co-sponsored by The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and organised by SQU.
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