Extremely Intense Hurricanes: Revisiting Webster et al. (2005) after 10 Years

Extremely Intense Hurricanes: Revisiting Webster et al. (2005) after 10 Years

Ten years ago, Webster et al. documented a large and significant increase in both the number as well as the percentage of category 4 and 5 hurricanes for all global basins from 1970 to 2004, and this manuscript examines whether those trends have continued when including 10 additional years of data. In contrast to that study, as shown here, the global frequency of category 4 and 5 hurricanes has...

Frequency of Intense Atlantic Hurricanes

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Response to Comments on Brandão et al. (2005)

Atlantic hurricanes and natural variability in 2005

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NGO permanent housing 10 years after the Gujarat earthquake: revisiting the FICCI−CARE Gujarat rehabilitation programme

The January 2001 earthquake that struck the state of Gujarat in India damaged or destroyed some 8,000 villages and 490 towns. In the months and years after the earthquake, many organizations undertook widespread reconstruction programmes. One such collaboration between the NGO CARE India and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) built 5,554 permanent houses as well ...