Abstract

PARDO GOMEZ, Rafael  and  RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ, Yakelin. Tropical storms classification according to their associated rainfall: (2) results. RIHA [online]. 2014, vol.35, n.2, pp. 35-51. ISSN 1680-0338.

The high frequency of tropical storms in Cuba has made Cuban people to follow informations released by the forecast department of the Instituto de Meteorología (Meteorology Institute) together with instructions emitted by the Estado Mayor Nacional de Defensa Civil (Civil Defense National Headquarters), with the purpose of planning relevant protection measures aimmed at disaster mitigation. These informations deal mainly with wind intensity among others but very little is said about rainfall amounts and their consequent flooding danger. The authors of this paper present a first approach to a classification scale of tropical storms according to their associated rainfall considering only rainfall-related variables. Other important variables, such as soil properties, soil use, etc. are left aside for later analysis which in a near future will allow better classification criteria.

Keywords : hurricane; rainfall intensity; heavy rain flooding; forecast.

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