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Cyclone Viyaru

Index Cyclone Viyaru

Cyclonic Storm Viyaru, operationally known as Cyclonic Storm Mahasen, was a relatively weak tropical cyclone that caused loss of life across six countries in Southern and Southeastern Asia. [1]

97 relations: Aceh, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Atmospheric convection, Atmospheric pressure, Balasore, Bangladesh, Bangladeshi taka, Bar (unit), Barguna District, Barisal Division, Bay of Bengal, Bhola District, Central dense overcast, Chennai, Chittagong, Christian Aid, Coordinated Universal Time, Cox's Bazar District, Cyclone Nargis, Cyclone Sidr, Feni District, Flash flood, Government of Bangladesh, Heat wave, Hydroelectricity, Inch of mercury, India, India Meteorological Department, Indian Standard Time, Indonesia, Internally displaced person, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Organization for Migration, Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Kelvin wave, Kurunegala, Landfall, Landslide, Lightning, Low-pressure area, Lungi, Madden–Julian oscillation, Mahasena of Anuradhapura, Malkangiri, Manipur, Maungdaw Township, Meghna River, Mercy Malaysia, Mizoram, ..., Myanmar, Nagaland, Nakhon Sawan Province, Noakhali District, North Sumatra, Oceansat-2, Odisha, Outflow (meteorology), Pascal (unit), Patuakhali District, Pound sterling, Rainband, Rakhine State, Ratnapura, Regional Specialized Meteorological Center, Rohingya people, Sari, Save the Children, Scatterometer, Sea surface temperature, Shortwave (meteorology), Simeulue Regency, Sittwe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Hemisphere, Sri Lanka, Storm surge, Subtropical ridge, Sweet potato, Swell (ocean), Teknaf Upazila, Thailand, Tide, Tropical cyclogenesis, Tropical cyclone, Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert, Tropical cyclone scales, Trough (meteorology), United Nations, United States Air Force, United States dollar, United States Navy, Wind shear, 1991 Bangladesh cyclone, 2012 Rakhine State riots, 2013 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. Expand index (47 more) »

Aceh

Aceh; (Acehnese: Acèh; Jawoë:; Dutch: Atjeh or Aceh) is a province of Indonesia.

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India.

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Assam

Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Atmospheric convection

Atmospheric convection is the result of a parcel-environment instability, or temperature difference, layer in the atmosphere.

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Atmospheric pressure

Atmospheric pressure, sometimes also called barometric pressure, is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth (or that of another planet).

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Balasore

Balasore or Baleswar is a city in the state of Odisha, about north of the state capital Bhubaneswar, in eastern India.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.

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Bangladeshi taka

The Bangladeshi taka (টাকা, sign: ৳ or Tk, code: BDT) is the currency of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

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Bar (unit)

The bar is a metric unit of pressure, but is not approved as part of the International System of Units (SI).

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Barguna District

Barguna (বরগুনা Borguna) is a district in the division of Barisal, Bangladesh.

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Barisal Division

Barisal Division, officially known as Barishal Division, is one of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh.

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Bay of Bengal

The Bay of Bengal (Bengali: বঙ্গোপসাগর) is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and north by India and Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India).

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Bhola District

Bhola District (ভোলা) is an administrative district (zila) in south-central Bangladesh, which includes Bhola Island, the largest island of Bangladesh.

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Central dense overcast

The central dense overcast, or CDO, of a tropical cyclone or strong subtropical cyclone is the large central area of thunderstorms surrounding its circulation center, caused by the formation of its eyewall.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Chittagong

Chittagong, officially known as Chattogram, is a major coastal city and financial centre in southeastern Bangladesh.

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Christian Aid

Christian Aid is the official relief and development agency of 41 British and Irish churches, and works to support sustainable development, stop poverty, support civil society and provide disaster relief in South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia (Including the Middle East).

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Coordinated Universal Time

No description.

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Cox's Bazar District

Cox's Bazar (কক্সবাজার জেলা, Cox's Bazar Jela also Cox's Bazar Zila) is a district in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh.

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Cyclone Nargis

Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Nargis (نرگس) caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar during early May 2008.

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Cyclone Sidr

Cyclone Sidr (JTWC designation: 06B, also known as Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Sidr) was a tropical cyclone that resulted in one of the worst natural disasters in Bangladesh.

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Feni District

Feni is a district located in the South-Eastern part of Bangladesh Administrative division of Chittagong.

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Flash flood

A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins.

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Government of Bangladesh

The Government of Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ সরকার Bangladesh Sôrkar GOB) has three branches; the Executive branch, the Legislative branch and the Judicial branch.

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Heat wave

A heat wave is a period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity, especially in oceanic climate countries.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.

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Inch of mercury

Inch of mercury (inHg and ″Hg) is a unit of measurement for pressure.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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India Meteorological Department

The India Meteorological Department (IMD), also referred to as the Met Department, is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time observed throughout India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Internally displaced person

An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders.

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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is a worldwide humanitarian aid organization that reaches 160 million people each year through its 190-member National Societies.

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International Organization for Migration

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is an intergovernmental organization that provides services and advice concerning migration to governments and migrants, including internally displaced persons, refugees, and migrant workers.

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Joint Typhoon Warning Center

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is a joint United States Navy – United States Air Force command located in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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Kelvin wave

A Kelvin wave is a wave in the ocean or atmosphere that balances the Earth's Coriolis force against a topographic boundary such as a coastline, or a waveguide such as the equator.

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Kurunegala

Kurunegala (කුරුණෑගල, குருணாகல்) is a major city in Sri Lanka.

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Landfall

Landfall is the event of a storm moving over egregious land after being over water.

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Landslide

The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.

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Lightning

Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge that occurs typically during a thunderstorm.

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Low-pressure area

A low-pressure area, low, or depression, is a region on the topographic map where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations.

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Lungi

The lungi is a type of sarong, originating from the Indian subcontinent, and a traditional garment worn around the waist in Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Somalia, Nepal, Cambodia, Djibouti, Myanmar and Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

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Madden–Julian oscillation

The Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) is the largest element of the intraseasonal (30- to 90-day) variability in the tropical atmosphere.

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Mahasena of Anuradhapura

Mahasena, also known in some records as Mahasen, was a king of Sri Lanka who ruled the country from 277 to 304 AD.

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Malkangiri

Malkangiri is a town and a Municipality in Malkangiri district in the Indian state of Odisha.

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Manipur

Manipur is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital.

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Maungdaw Township

Maungdaw Township (မောင်တောမြို့နယ်) is a township of Maungdaw District in Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma).

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Meghna River

The Meghna River (মেঘনা নদী) is one of the most important rivers in Bangladesh, one of the three that forms the Ganges Delta, the largest delta on earth, which fans out to the Bay of Bengal.

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Mercy Malaysia

MERCY Malaysia or Medical Relief Society Malaysia is a non-profit organisation focusing on providing medical relief,sustainable health related development and risk reduction activities for vulnerable communities in both crisis and non-crisis situations.

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Mizoram

Mizoram is a state in Northeast India, with Aizawl as its capital city.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

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Nagaland

Nagaland is a state in Northeast India.

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Nakhon Sawan Province

Nakhon Sawan (นครสวรรค์) is one of the provinces (changwat) of Thailand.

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Noakhali District

Noakhali (নোয়াখালী জেলা.) is a district in South-eastern Bangladesh.

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North Sumatra

North Sumatra (Sumatera Utara) is a province of Indonesia.

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Oceansat-2

Oceansat-2 is an Indian satellite designed to provide service continuity for operational users of the Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) instrument on Oceansat-1.

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Odisha

Odisha (formerly Orissa) is one of the 29 states of India, located in eastern India.

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Outflow (meteorology)

Outflow, in meteorology, is air that flows outwards from a storm system.

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Pascal (unit)

The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the SI derived unit of pressure used to quantify internal pressure, stress, Young's modulus and ultimate tensile strength.

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Patuakhali District

Patuakhali is a district in South-central Bangladesh.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Rainband

A rainband is a cloud and precipitation structure associated with an area of rainfall which is significantly elongated.

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Rakhine State

Rakhine State (Rakhine pronunciation;; formerly Arakan) is a state in Myanmar (Burma).

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Ratnapura

Ratnapura ("City of Gems" in Sinhala and Tamil) is a major city in Sri Lanka.

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Regional Specialized Meteorological Center

A Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (also Regional Specialized Meteorological Center and Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre; RSMC) is responsible for the distribution of information, advisories, and warnings regarding the specific program they have a part of, agreed by consensus at the World Meteorological Organization as part of the World Weather Watch.

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Rohingya people

The Rohingya people are a stateless Indo-Aryan-speaking people who reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar (also known as Burma).

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Sari

A sari, saree, or shariThe name of the garment in various regional languages include:শাড়ি, साड़ी, ଶାଢୀ, ಸೀರೆ,, साडी, कापड, चीरे,, സാരി, साडी, सारी, ਸਾਰੀ, புடவை, చీర, ساڑى is a female garment from the Indian subcontinent that consists of a drape varying from five to nine yards (4.5 metres to 8 metres) in length and two to four feet (60 cm to 1.20 m) in breadth that is typically wrapped around the waist, with one end draped over the shoulder, baring the midriff.

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Save the Children

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organisation that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries.

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Scatterometer

A scatterometer or diffusionmeter is a scientific instrument to measure the return of a beam of light or radar waves scattered by diffusion in a medium such as air.

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Sea surface temperature

Sea surface temperature (SST) is the water temperature close to the ocean's surface.

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Shortwave (meteorology)

A shortwave or shortwave trough is an embedded kink in the trough / ridge pattern.

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Simeulue Regency

Simeulue Regency is a regency in the Aceh special region of Indonesia.

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Sittwe

Sittwe (formerly Akyab) is the capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma).

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South Asia

South Asia or Southern Asia (also known as the Indian subcontinent) is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Storm surge

A storm surge, storm flood or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami-like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low pressure weather systems (such as tropical cyclones and strong extratropical cyclones), the severity of which is affected by the shallowness and orientation of the water body relative to storm path, as well as the timing of tides.

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Subtropical ridge

The subtropical ridge, also known as the subtropical high or horse latitudes, is a significant belt of atmospheric high pressure situated around the latitudes of 30°N in the Northern Hemisphere and 30°S in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Sweet potato

The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

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Swell (ocean)

A swell, in the context of an ocean, sea or lake, is a series of mechanical waves that propagate along the interface between water and air and so they are often referred to as surface gravity waves.

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Teknaf Upazila

Teknaf (টেকনাফ Ṭeknaf) is an Upazila of Cox's Bazar District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.

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Tropical cyclogenesis

Tropical cyclogenesis is the development and strengthening of a tropical cyclone in the atmosphere.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.

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Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert

A Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA) is a bulletin released by the U.S. Navy-operated Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Honolulu, Hawaii or the Fleet Weather Center in Norfolk, Virginia, warning of the possibility of a tropical cyclone forming from a tropical disturbance that has been monitored.

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Tropical cyclone scales

Tropical cyclones are officially ranked on one of five tropical cyclone intensity scales, according to their maximum sustained winds and which tropical cyclone basin(s) they are located in.

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Trough (meteorology)

A trough is an elongated (extended) region of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with fronts.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Wind shear

Wind shear (or windshear), sometimes referred to as wind gradient, is a difference in wind speed and/or direction over a relatively short distance in the atmosphere.

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1991 Bangladesh cyclone

The 1991 Bangladesh cyclone (IMD designation: BOB 01, JTWC designation: 02B) was among the deadliest tropical cyclones on record.

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2012 Rakhine State riots

The 2012 Rakhine State riots were a series of conflicts primarily between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, though by October Muslims of all ethnicities had begun to be targeted.

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2013 North Indian Ocean cyclone season

The 2013 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation, in which tropical cyclones formed in the North Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Viyaru

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