In five pages hurricanes is examined in a climatic overview of this catastrophic storm with a personal preparedness guide also considered. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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of all natural disasters. Their development and maturation offers a fascinating climatologic study, a study which is intensified when one realizes the damage to life and property which can
result with their advent. Climatologists are constantly seeking to better the techniques which they can use to sense the development of these storms and to track their path from
their point of origin to landfall. Accurately predicting the course of these storms and providing adequate warning to those in the area of their potential swath is critical to
saving both lives and property, as is proper personal and regional preparations for these devastating events. Hurricanes can be massive in
regard to their arial extent and the swath of their destruction. They are characterized by high winds and flooding. They can be long-lived as well, lasting up to
a month from formation to degradation. Hurricanes form as a result of areas of low pressure which absorb moist air and heat from the oceans surface. As these
formations, referred to as tropical depressions, rise into the atmosphere the higher pressure they encounter result in their expansion. This couples with the spinning motion imparted by wind currents
to result in a tight curl which eventually reaches gale force winds. It is at this point that a tropical storm is formed. Hurricanes maintain a symmetry which
consists of an outer counterclockwise swirl of gale winds surrounding a central area of extremely low pressure. Hurricanes are most definitely
not something to be taken lightly. Hurricane Andrew struck south of Miami, Florida on August 24, 1992 and demolished a thirty mile wide swath from the Atlantic Ocean to