Abstract
Tropical cyclones are the most devastating phenomena among all natural disasters, having taken more than half a million lives all over the world in the last five decades. Cyclones are accompanied by very strong winds, torrential rains and storm surges. The havoc caused by cyclones to shipping in the high seas and coastal habitats along the Indian coasts due to above mentioned adverse weather have been known since hundreds of years. The tropical warm north Indian Ocean (NIO), like the tropical North Atlantic, the South Pacific and the NW Pacific, is a breeding ground for the disastrous TC phenomenon. Historically, in terms of loss to human life, the Bay of Bengal TCs have accounted for deaths ranging from 1,000–300,000. The Bay of Bengal has experienced more than 75 % of the total world-wide TCs causing human death of 5,000 or more in last 300 years (Dube et al. 2013).
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Mohapatra, M., Bandyopadhyay, B.K., Ray, K., Rathore, L.S. (2015). Early Warning Services for Management of Cyclones over North Indian Ocean: Current Status and Future Scope. In: Ray, K., Mohapatra, M., Bandyopadhyay, B., Rathore, L. (eds) High-Impact Weather Events over the SAARC Region. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10217-7_7
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