极端天气成本

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来源:《极端天气源手册》

根据一份新报告的结果,阳光之州可能更恰当地被称为风暴之州。《极端天气源手册》2001年版本周在美国气象学会年会上发布,再次将佛罗里达州列为因飓风、洪水和龙卷风造成的损失相关成本最高的州。事实上,佛罗里达州1999年的天气灾害总额达16亿美元——占美国总额的很大一部分,美国总额约为114亿美元。

美国国家大气研究中心(NCAR)的科学家们在这最新版本的《极端天气源手册》中增加了更多的历史数据,以及关于冰雹、风暴、雷暴和冬季风暴的信息。他们还增加了一个关于闪电的章节——闪电是最致命的极端天气事件之一。总的来说,NCAR团队负责人罗杰·皮尔克指出,“实际上没有哪个地方是‘安全’的”, “每个地方都有一定程度的损害。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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