Impacts and Recovery from Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi on the Great Barrier Reef
Fig 5
Potential for structural damage (very low to high) of GBR coral communities from tropical cyclones (TCs, 1985–2014).
The 44 TCs are plotted on the diagram with respect to their intensity along the horizontal axis and their circulation size along the vertical axis. Of the 7 TCs that were large, only TC Yasi was also intense and posed a high risk of structural damage.