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How many Katrinas? Predicting the number of hurricanes striking the USA
Author(s) -
O'Hagan Tony,
Ward Bob,
Coughlin Katie
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00321.x
Subject(s) - hurricane katrina , threatened species , history , intuition , operations research , environmental ethics , geography , meteorology , engineering , natural disaster , psychology , cognitive science , philosophy , ecology , biology , habitat
Hurricane Katrina dealt a savage blow to New Orleans. This year Hurricane Gustav threatened a repetition. How many Katrinas will strike in future? As yet another hurricane approached, intuition and science came together in a grey room to try to find out. Tony O'Hagan, Bob Ward and Katie Coughlin report.