More apocalyptic images of the storm surfaced as the typhoon toppled houses and blew cars off the road in Shanwei, killing 13 in the the country's worst hit city.
Initially a tool of study for the behavior of storms, surface weather analyses became a work in progress to explain current weather and as an aid for short term weather forecasting.
Controlling factors of nutrient export were discussed in this study, including season, hydrology (base flow, storm flow, surface and subsurface runoff), and land use.
Finally, a WG on engineered nanoparticles (ENP) was officially established in October 2011 to address: 1) behaviour of ENPs in the aquatic environment (wastewater, storm water, surface water and sediment); 2) their effects on aquatic ecosystems and 3) analytical methods.
{{Infobox Hurricane Small | Basin=Atl | Image=Tropical Storm Two surface analysis 9 Aug 1917.jpg | Track=1917 Atlantic tropical storm 2 track.png | Formed=August 6 | Dissipated=August 10 | 1-min winds=60 | Pressure= Initially the storm drifted westward and strengthened minimally.
Both Wave Glider and EMILY can measure a tropical storm's surface air temperature, wind chill, barometric pressure, actual wind speed, relative wind speed, wind direction, ocean temperature and ocean salinity, researchers said.
Late on August 4, a fourth reconnaissance flight into the storm found surface winds of 160 mph (260 km/h), but this reading was discounted on the basis that pressures were unusually high for a storm of that intensity.
The most dramatic outbreak occurred in 1999, when storms drove surface waters, which were unusually warm that year, deep enough to affect lobster habitats in the western part of the sound.
At the time, a cold front extended eastward from the surface storm toward the eastern Atlantic Ocean, north of Tropical Storm Delta.
Unlike seabirds or waterfowl, they would not appear to be in a position to easily ride out a storm on the surface, or simply take a rest to interrupt a long flight.
