Philippines typhoon disaster by Haiyan

Outline 

Typhoon Haiyan (T2013-No.30) was extremely intense and gave huge impact on Philippines and neighbor countries. We are curious to analyze this event for future prediction of similar typhoon.

Numerical analysis

• Tentative analysis of atmospheric, surge and wave field
  • 2013/11/19 Added CReSS results
  • 2013/11/22 Added Empirical TC model results
  • 2013/12/04 Added WRF results

Field survey 

• JSCE 1st Group

  • December 13-17, 2013
    • Yasuda participated as the JSCE-PICE joint survey team
    • Locations: Leyte, Samar

  JSCE 2nd Group

  • January 23-30, 2014
    • Locations: Leyte, Samar, Panay
    • Mori, Yasuda, Nishijima and Tsujio participated as the JSCE-PICE joint survey team

Papers

• Mori, N., M. Kato, S. Kim, H. Mase, Y. Shibutani, T. Takemi, K. Tsuboki and T. Yasuda (2014) Local amplification of storm surge by Super Typhoon Haiyan in Leyte Gulf, Geophysical Research Letters, American Geophysical Union, accepted.

Link 

• Digital Typhoon DB
  • http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/summary/wnp/s/201330.html.ja
  • 　http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/news/2013/TC1330/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan