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Assessment of tornado hazard in the nuclear facilities siting areas [PDF]
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, 2020 The potential hazard of destructive tornado effects on nuclear facilities determines the necessity to study the climatic regime of tornado passage and arrange the appropriate protection of these facilities in conformity with the national and ...
Bryukhan Fedor F., Barulin Grigoriy P.
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Applied Sciences, 2023 Responding to tornado disasters resides at a unique intersection of search and rescue operations: it has attributes of wilderness and maritime search and rescue operations and search and rescue operations in the aftermath of earthquakes and hurricanes ...
Sean Grogan +2 more
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Trend Analysis of U. S. Tornado Activity Frequency
Atmosphere, 2022 As one of the most severe and high-impact weather phenomena, tornadoes and their long-term frequency trends have received lots of attention from both the scientific community and the public. Here, we show that over the last six decades (1954–2018), U.S. (
Zuohao Cao, Huaqing Cai
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Is the Supply of Charitable Donations Fixed? Evidence from Deadly Tornadoes
Social Science Research Network, 2020 Do new societal needs increase charitable giving or simply reallocate a fixed supply of donations? We study this question using IRS datasets and the natural experiment of deadly tornadoes.
T. Deryugina, Benjamin M. Marx
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Tornadoes in Northern Eurasia: From the Middle Age to the Information Era
Monthly Weather Review, 2020 The last comprehensive statistics of tornadoes in northern Eurasia (NE) were published more than 30 years ago. This paper introduces a new database of tornadoes in NE that spans from the tenth century to 2016. The database, compiled using various sources,
A. Chernokulsky +8 more
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Spatial–temporal clustering of tornadoes [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2016 The standard measure of the intensity of a tornado is the Enhanced Fujita scale, which is based qualitatively on the damage caused by a tornado. An alternative measure of tornado intensity is the tornado path length, L.
B. D. Malamud +2 more
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The Northern Tornadoes Project: Uncovering Canada’s True Tornado Climatology
Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS), 2020 Canada is a vast country with most of its population located along its southern border. Large areas are sparsely populated and/or heavily forested, and severe weather reports are rare when thunderstorms occur there.
D. Sills +9 more
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Proposed Classification for all Types of Wind Storms in Poland [PDF]
Archives of Civil Engineering, 2020 International scales describing the intensity of tornadoes are investigated along with reports from the Polish Government Security Centre on all types of wind storms in Poland.
Tadeusz Chmielewski, Henryk Nowak
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Spatial Distributions of Tropical Cyclone Tornadoes by Intensity and Size Characteristics
Atmosphere, 2017 Tropical cyclones that make landfall often spawn tornadoes. Previous studies have shown that these tornadoes are not uniformly distributed in the United States or in the tropical cyclone environment.
Todd W. Moore +2 more
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Atmosphere, 2021 Severe convective windstorms and tornadoes regularly hit the territory of Russia causing substantial damage and fatalities. An analysis of the climatology and formation environments of these events is essential for risk assessments, forecast improvements
Andrey Shikhov +4 more
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