The Evaluation of Disastrous Losses Caused by Tropical Cyclones

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  • Department of Atmosphere Science, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275

Received date: 2000-07-03

  Revised date: 2000-10-15

  Online published: 2000-12-15

Supported by

National key project of the National Ninth Five Plan, No.96-908-03-03

Abstract

In this paper, the Fuzzy composite evaluation method was applied to evaluate the damage caused by tropical cyclones making landfall in Guangdong during the period of 1990-- 1996. The index of the disaster of every tropical cyclone have been obtained, and have been divided into five parts. The result shows that this method can relatively evaluate the losses caused by tropical cyclones with different density.

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FAN Qi, LIANG Bi-qi . The Evaluation of Disastrous Losses Caused by Tropical Cyclones[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2000 , 55(s1) : 52 -56 . DOI: 10.11821/xb2000S1009

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