Natural Hazards and Earth System Science www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net 1561-8633 1684-9981 9 1 2009 10.5194/nhess-9-43-2009 http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/43/2009/ http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/43/2009/nhess-9-43-2009.html http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/43/2009/nhess-9-43-2009.pdf 43 51 2009-01-13 Study of tropical cyclone "Fanoos" using MM5 model – a case study S. Ramalingeswara Rao raos39@rediffmail.com K. Muni Krishna O. S. R. U. Bhanu Kumar Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra University, India Tropical cyclones are one of the most intense weather hazards over east coast of India and create a lot of devastation through gale winds and torrential floods while they cross the coast. So an attempt is made in this study to simulate track and intensity of tropical cyclone "Fanoos", which is formed over the Bay of Bengal during 5–10 December 2005 by using mesoscale model MM5. 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