Super Cyclone 1999

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Published: Saturday 12 October 2013

Select articles, studies and documents that throw light on super cyclone of 1999 and what makes Odisha so disaster-prone



	Disastrous state Floods, cyclones, heat waves and droughts have made Orissa the disaster capital of India. Is it just natural or is the state paying a price for climate change and environmental degradation?

	‘Modern buildings cannot breathe’ Kolkata-based architect Laurent Fournier tells how ceilings can float and why bamboo-reed-mud makes more sense than brick-concrete-steel

	Is Orissa prepared for disaster? In October 1999, two cyclones devastated coastal Orissa, leaving nearly 30,000 dead in 14 districts. Immediately after, the Orissa State Disaster Mitigation Authority (osdma) was formed

	Troubled Beautiful Minds They are there—each residential area has its mentally disturbed people; each family has anecdotes of crazy relatives. Nobody wants to acknowledge them

	Shaken and stirred Report focuses on Orissa cyclone's mind-jolting fallout

	Deaths foretold The loss of life in the super cyclone that hit the Orissa coast last year was not an 'act of God'.

	Catastrophe! A super cyclone has left Orissa shattered and blown away India's claims of managing itself during a natural disaster

	Rs 241 crore to Orissa The Union ministry of environment and forests has formulated a Rs 241-crore project for ecological rehabilitation of the cyclone-ravaged

Select papers and studies on 1999 Super Cylone in Odisha

Examining the storm protection services of mangroves of Orissa during the 1999 cyclone , Economic and Political Weekly June 2011

This paper examines whether the mangrove forests in Kendrapada district of Orissa played any protective role during the severe cyclone that hit the state in October 1999.
Importance of upper ocean heat content in the intensification and translation speed of cyclones over the Bay of Bengal, Current Science, Nov 2010

In this study an attempt has been made to examine the relationship between UOHC and Uh for the severe cyclones during 1990–2006.
Mangroves protected villages and reduced death toll during Indian super cyclone, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , April 2009
Facing sudden impact (Experience of Orissa super cyclone of 1999), Man & Development, March 2006
An empirical model for predicting the decay of tropical cyclone wind speed after landfall over the Indian region, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Jan 2005
Study on super cyclone in Orissa 1999 with special reference to early warning system, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), March 2005
Epidemiology of tropical cyclones: The dynamics of disaster, disease, and development, Epidemiologic Reviews, July 2005
Tropical cyclones in a warmer world, Current Science, May 2001

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