1. Joy Papao, SPC - SOPAC

2. Tropical Cyclones, Typhoons & Hurricanes

3. Tropical Cyclone Overview - Formation

4. Tropical Cyclone Hazards Torrential rains (flash flooding & river flooding) Landslides Storm surges and waves Lightning Salt spray

6. Tropical Cyclone Risk Model “assessing only wind hazard”

7. TCRM - users Climatologists Meteorologists Natural hazard researchers with limited or no programming experience

8. TCRM – configuration file Input file – IBTrACS global database of tropical cyclones www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ibtracs Domain – Country/Division/Location Track Generator - No of years to simulate Hazard – Return periods (25, 50, 100, 200, 250, 500….)

9. Viewing simulation results - graph Cyclonic Wind Hazard for Lata, Solomon Islands

10. Simulation Results – Return Period

11. TC Track data – Quantum GIS

12. TC Tracking – Quantum GIS TC Ivy - 2004

13. Wind field – Quantum GIS

14. Why Model? To better understand the risk and potential impacts of these natural hazard on our communities Increase resilience Could be used to improve early warning procedures for TCs, in this case May want to look at how different TC hazards affect areas of interest

15. Acknowledgement Geoscience Australia, AUSAID, QUT and especially Dr Martine Woolf and Craig Arthur