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Myanmar's deadly daffodil

Nature Geoscience volume 1, pages 488–490 (2008)Cite this article

Tropical cyclone Nargis wrought havoc in southern Myanmar, with an estimated death toll well above 100,000. Potential future disasters could be alleviated with currently available forecasting skill and effective disaster mitigation plans.

As a result of the passage of cyclone Nargis over 130,000 lives were lost and buildings, infrastructure, farmlands, livestock and fisheries were destroyed. After a disaster on this scale, the question arises whether strategies that have proved useful elsewhere can be adapted to the region.

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Figure 1: A hurricane emerging.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank J. Masters, J. A. Curry and G. J. Holland for comments and discussions, and J. Jian and M. Zuluega for creating the figure.

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  1. Peter J. Webster is at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. pjw@eas.gatech.edu,

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