Nueva clasificación de las inundaciones costeras en Cuba

A new classification of the coastal floods for the Cuban archipelago attending the meteorological systems that generated them, its particularities physical-geographical features of the affected area,   are presented. As sources of information, surveys were used of coastal people and press reports, as well as the archives of the Institute of Meteorology, the National Hurricane Center in Miami, and NCEP / NCAR reanalysis (National Centers for Environmental Prediction / National Center for Atmospheric Research) of the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration). It is concluded that the coastal floods in Cuba are product of the affectation of the tropical hurricanes, cold fronts, "southern" events and the combination of the extratropical low and the migratory high, being the affected fields the Havana mole, the gulf of Batabano and Gibara- Baracoa littoral; while the approach of classification of the magnitude of these events will produce the increase perception of the hazard for these phenomena meteorological ends on the part of the population. The use of the results is recommended in the local prediction of these events, as well as in the elaboration of contingency plans and actions of coastal handling on the part of the competent authorities.