Print Email Facebook Twitter Understanding spatiotemporal patterns of typhoon storm surge disasters based on their tropical cyclone track clusters in China Title Understanding spatiotemporal patterns of typhoon storm surge disasters based on their tropical cyclone track clusters in China Author Wang, K. (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science; Tsinghua University; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Yang, Yongsheng (Tsinghua University) Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (TU Delft Safety and Security Science; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Universiteit Antwerpen) Huang, Quanyi (Tsinghua University) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Date 2021 Abstract Typhoon storm surge disasters have garnered much attention because of their catastrophic damages. We investigated spatiotemporal patterns of typhoon storm surge disasters based on their tropical cyclone track clusters to support disaster mitigation in China. We aggregated 172 typhoon storm surge disasters in the entire cluster. Then, we used the extended Finite-Mixture-Model to categorize these 172 disasters into three clusters according to their track clusters (westward, northward, and westward shift at the coastline). In general, not all temporal distributions of the frequency and damage showed significant trends in the entire cluster and three clusters from 1983–2018. Between 1983‒2000 and 2001‒2018, the average annual frequency increased, and average annual direct economic loss and average annual fatalities decreased in the entire cluster. Although most temporal patterns in the three clusters were similar to those in the entire cluster, a positive growth ratio in the average annual direct economic loss was apparent between 1983‒2000 and 2001‒2018 in Cluster 3. For spatial patterns, southern and eastern regions were more affected by typhoon storm surge disasters than northern regions. In northern regions, Cluster 2 recorded the most disaster occurrences, direct economic losses, and fatalities. Track characteristics and mitigation measures were introduced to help understand disaster spatiotemporal patterns in the entire cluster and three clusters. Subject mitigation measuresspatiotemporal patternstrack clusteringtropical cyclone tracksTyphoon storm surge disaster To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e490df08-a4fa-4ca2-868b-5c3b37706e5b DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2021.1973120 ISSN 1947-5705 Source Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 12 (1), 2736-2754 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 K. Wang, Yongsheng Yang, G.L.L.M.E. Reniers, Quanyi Huang Files PDF Understanding_spatiotempo ... hina_1.pdf 2.61 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e490df08-a4fa-4ca2-868b-5c3b37706e5b/datastream/OBJ/view