@article {bnh-2588, title = {A southeast Queensland tropical cyclone scenario}, number = {159}, year = {2016}, month = {02/2016}, institution = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Melbourne}, abstract = {

Tropical cyclones are devastating events for the communities they affect. Realistic disaster scenario analysis is a simulation technique that can be used by disaster management agencies to understand the potential impacts of these storms and help them better prepare for their inevitable occurrence. This report describes research undertaken to develop such a scenario and detail its impacts.

The primary aim of this project was to assess the potential impacts of a category 4 storm impacting the populous region of southeast Queensland. A perturbed version of the track taken by Severe Tropical Cyclone Dinah in 1967 was chosen for simulation and the key findings of this work are as follows:

Future work will further develop both the wind hazard and vulnerability models used in the current simulation and will seek to include new model components that simulate tropical cyclone induced rainfall, coastal inundation and their impacts.\ 

}, issn = {159}, author = {M. S. Mason} }