Shoaibe Hossain Talukder Shefat1,2*
1Resilient Small-Scale Fisheries Program, WorldFish Bangladesh and South Asia, Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2Department of Fisheries Management, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
*Corresponding Author: Shoaibe Hossain Talukder Shefat, Resilient Small-Scale Fisheries Program, WorldFish Bangladesh and South Asia, Dhaka and Department of Fisheries Management, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh.
Received: May 26, 2020; Published: May 31, 2020
The monstrous cyclone Amphan, formed in the Bay of Bengal was the strongest tropical cyclone affecting the Ganges delta after Sidr in 2007 that caused severe damage in India and Bangladesh in May 2020. It was also the first tropical cyclone in the North Indian Ocean in 2020. Originating from a low-pressure area in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 13 May 2020, Amphan reached its maximum intensity on 18 May that sustained for 4-minutes with a wind speed of 240 - 260 km/h (150 - 160 mph), and a minimum central barometric pressure (925 mbar) (Figure 1). However, the intensity gradually weakened by continuous and combined dry air and wind shear effects and reached a residuum level on 21 May. During this period, Amphan caused severe destruction of more than US$13 billion in India and Bangladesh.
Citation: Shoaibe Hossain Talukder Shefat. “The Super Cyclonic Storm Amphan Inflicts Massive Damage to Coastal Aquaculture in Bangladesh" Acta Scientific Agriculture 4.7 (2020): 01-03.
Copyright: © 2020 Shoaibe Hossain Talukder Shefat. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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