Storm surges - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Summarised notes and tips based from the Focus Grade 12 Geography Book. Notes include summaries on terminology, the stages of a tropical cyclones, ways to warn people and the damage these storms cause.

what are sediment littoral cells 'self contained' stretches of coastline made up of three components; sources where sediment is generated, transfer zones stretches where sediment moves along the coast, and sinks where sediment is deposited describe the essential features of backshore (3) a part of the beach above normal high tide mark, at cliff base. only effected by the sea during exceptionally high tide and storms. consists of features like storm beaches, pebbles and berms describe the e...

Notes on: The nature of tropical storms and their underlying causes. Forms of storm hazard: high winds, storm surges, coastal flooding, river flooding and landslides. Spatial distribution, magnitude, frequency, regularity, predictability of hazard events. Impacts: primary/secondary, environmental, social, economic, political. Short and long-term responses: risk management designed to reduce the impacts of the hazard through preparedness, mitigation, prevention and adaptation. Impact...

Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming E Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming Evaluation University of Phoenix ECO/370 Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming Evaluation Global warming is well renowned as the fact that the Earths climate is changing all around us, every day, and not in the best of ways, global warming is the ever-raising temperatures of the world, from frozen tundra with permafrost beginning to melt, to the deserts where temperatures now routinely reach near 120 degrees in the summer h...

An in depth description on Geography ALevel Edexcel Coastal Landscapes and Change EQ4 > "How can coastlines be managed to meet the needs of all players?" All my documents are split into EQ's to keep it organised and easier to download and transfer. Documents include diagrams, pictures, and colour coded. Red = Key words, Purple = Case studies.

these notes have all been produces for the new set of exam series beginning in the summer of 2018 and are based on the Edexcel exam board.