Organisation: European Commission, Joint Research Centre

Point of contact: jrc-ems-rapidmapping@ec.europa.eu

Title: Tropical Cyclon in Bangladesh (2013-05-16)

Description

Activation time (UTC): 2013-05-16 10:22:00 Event time (UTC): 2013-05-16 10:00:00 Event type: Wind storm

Activation reason:
Tropical Cyclon caused unusually heavy rains and hit north of Chittagong and brought life threatening conditions for 8.2 million people in Bangladesh and Myanmar (from Reliefweb, OCHA, 15 May 2013)

Reference maps produced: 6 Delineation maps produced: 6 Grading maps produced: 0

Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Mapping is a service funded by European Commission aimed at providing actors in the management of natural and man-made disasters, in particular Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid actors, with mapping products based on satellite imagery.

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (2013): Tropical Cyclon in Bangladesh (2013-05-16). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/b6563b0b-365e-4936-9342-358c4405f59d

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Related resources

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR042]: Tropical Cyclon in Bangladesh (2013-05-16) Esri Shape
All maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant vector data (SHP, KML) as well.

Additional information

Issue date	2013-05-16
Landing page	http://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR042
Language	English
Data theme(s)	Regions and cities; Science and technology
EuroVoc domain(s)	72 GEOGRAPHY
Identifier	http://data.europa.eu/89h/b6563b0b-365e-4936-9342-358c4405f59d

Geographic information

Lineage	No additional information
Geographic bounding box	22.3079632968° N, 92.3006116° E, 20.932911968° S, 89.8964095712° W
Coordinate Reference System	ETRS89 / LAEA Europe

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