PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WIND ENGINEERING
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20th NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WIND ENGINEERING
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CYCLONE DISASTER IN THE BAY OF BENGAL
"Sidr" in November of 2007 and "Nargis" in May of 2008
*TAIICHI HAYASHIFUMIE MURATAYURIKO MIURAYUICHIRO OKUYUSUKE YAMANESHUNSUKE TSUSHIMA
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Bangladesh and Myanmar were seriously dfamaged by the severe Cyclone "Sidr" in November of 2007 and "Nargis" in May of 2008. These cyclones are severest ones in the last two decades years. The total died and missed pesons were more than four thousands in Bangladesh, and more than ahundred thousands in myanmar. In the cyclone "Sidr", the minimum pressure of 944 hPa and the peak gust of 69m/s were observed at the time of landing on the coast Bangladesh. In this paper, we reprt the statistic summary of cyclones in the northern Indian Ocean with the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. The year to year variation fo the cyclone generation and the seasonal feature of the occurrence are clarified.

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