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Fig. 7.9 Characteristics of hurricanes of different categories by Saffir-Simpson Scale for 2000

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2013. Color lines correspond to different oceans: dark Atlantic Ocean, blue Pacific Ocean, and red
Indian Ocean. More thick dashed lines correspond to wind speed. More thick solid lines
correspond to number of storms that no achieve hurricane stage. Dotty lives correspond to number
of hurricanes of 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th categories

Table 7.6 Statistics of hurricanes for 1997 - 2011 in different zones of the world ocean

Basin Time interval

1997 2001 2002 2006 2007 2011

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Number of
cyclones

Percent of
hurricanes
(typhoons)

Number of
cyclones

Percent of
hurricanes
(typhoons)

Number of
cyclones

Percent of
hurricanes
(typhoons)

Paci c Ocean 204 38.7 159 62.9 198 45.5

South of Pacific Ocean 96 17.7 70 25.7 94 11.7

East of Pacific Ocean 84 45.2 85 42.4 78 39.7

North of Atlantic
Ocean

75 49.3 92 43.5 87 41.4

North of Indian Ocean 44 27.3 51 19.6 47 19.1

South of Indian Ocean 67 35.8 78 41.0 61 50.8