CR Climate Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials CR 42:185-193 (2010) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/cr00889 Recent trends in the climate of Bangladesh Shamsuddin Shahid* Department...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Abbas U. Bhuyia, Amit Choudhury, Rita Sen
Living with natural disasters has become a way of life in Bangladesh. On the night of 29 April 1991 a severe cyclonic storm, accompanied by tidal surges up to 30 feet high, battered the coastal areas of Bangladesh for 3-4 hours. Thousands of people were killed and property worth billions of dollars ...
Atef Belhaj Ali
Rabiul Islam, Greg Walkerden
Muhammad Al-Amin Hoque, Stuart Phinn, Chris Roelfsema, Iraphne R. Childs
S. Neetu, Matthieu Lengaigne, Emmanuel M. Vincent, Jérôme Vialard et al.
Surface cooling induced by tropical cyclones (TCs) is about three times larger during premonsoon than during postmonsoon season in the Bay of Bengal. We investigate processes responsible for this seasonal contrast using an ocean general circulation model. The model is forced by TC winds prescribed f...
Ubydul Haque, Masahiro Hashizume, Korine N. Kolivras, Hans J. Overgaard et al.
Tropical storms, such as cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, present major threats to coastal communities. Around two million people worldwide have died and millions have been injured over the past two centuries as a result of tropical storms. Bangladesh is especially vulnerable to tropical cyclones,...
Russell Kabir, Hafiz T. A. Khan, Emma Ball, Kay Caldwell
Bangladesh is considered one of the countries most at risk to the effects of climate change and its coastal area is most vulnerable. This study tries to explore the experiences of cyclones Sidr and Aila affected people living in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. This study was conducted in the cyclon...
Bishawjit Mallick, Bayes Ahmed, Joachim Vogt
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. Cyclone disasters that affect millions of people, destroy homesteads and livelihoods, and trigger migration are common in the coastal region of Bangladesh. The aim of this article is to understand how the coastal communities in Ban...
Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, Zahirul Huq Khan, Manjur Murshed Zahid Ahmed et al.
This paper integrates information on climate-change, hydrodynamic models, and geographic overlays to assess the vulnerability of coastal areas in Bangladesh to larger storm surges and sea-level rise (SLR) by 2050. The approach identifies polders, coastal populations, settlements, infrastructure, and...
Amireeta Rawlani, Benjamin K. Sovacool
Shamsuddin Shahid, Xiao‐Jun Wang, Sobri Harun, Supiah Shamsudin et al.
Md. Golam Mahabub Sarwar, Colin D. Woodroffe
Bishawjit Mallick, Khan Rubayet Rahaman, Joachim Vogt
Alex C. Ruane, David C. Major, Winston Yu, Mozaharul Alam et al.