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Ying Ouyang, Johnny M. Grace, Prem B. Parajuli and Peter V. Caldwell
Hurricanes and tropical storms (TS) are infrequent but disastrous events to human lives, social activities, and terrestrial ecosystems in coastal regions. Using the Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA)?s Hydrologic and Water Quality System (HAWQS) mo...
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Xianbin Liu, Xiucheng Zeng, Xiaoming Zou, Grizelle González, Chao Wang and Si Yang
Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck Puerto Rico on the 6th and 20th of September 2017, respectively. These two powerful Cat 5 hurricanes severely defoliated forest canopy and deposited massive amounts of litterfall in the forests across the island. We estab...
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Neiler Medina, Arlex Sanchez and Zoran Vojinovic
Disasters triggered by natural hazards are becoming more frequent and more intense, causing damage to infrastructure and causing loss of life. One way to reduce disaster risk is by evacuating the hazardous area. However, despite the amount of literature ...
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Carlos E. Ramos-Scharrón, Caroline T. Garnett and Eugenio Y. Arima
Peak streamflow rates from the Insular Caribbean have received limited attention in worldwide catalogues in spite of their potential for exceptionality given many of the islands? steep topographic relief and proneness to high rainfall rates associated wi...
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Daniel Pastrana,César Treviño
Pág. 111 - 120
Two of the most important tropical cyclone parameters, which are used as a measure of their intensity, are the maximum surface wind speed (local parameter) and the pressure difference between the free atmosphere and the pressure in the center of the stor...
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Wilmer Rey, Paulo Salles, Alec Torres-Freyermuth, Pablo Ruíz-Salcines, Yi-Cheng Teng, Christian M. Appendini and Julián Quintero-Ibáñez
We investigate the storm impact associated with historical events in the northern Yucatan Peninsula. The study area is prone to coastal flooding due to both its geographical location and low-lying areas. Extreme events associated with tropical cyclones a...
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Alexandra N. Ramos Valle, Enrique N. Curchitser, Cindy L. Bruyere and Kathryn R. Fossell
Storm surge events have the potential to cause devastating damage to coastal communities. The magnitude of their impacts highlights the need for increased accuracy and real-time forecasting and predictability of storm surge. In this study, we assess two ...
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Kerry Milch, Kenneth Broad, Ben Orlove and Robert Meyer
Although the field has seen great advances in hurricane prediction and response, the economic toll from hurricanes on U.S. communities continues to rise. We present data from Hurricanes Earl (2010), Irene (2011), Isaac (2012), and Sandy (2012) to show th...
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Marianne E. Dietz, Kam-biu Liu and Thomas A. Bianchette
The Louisiana shoreline is rapidly retreating as a result of factors such as sea-level rise and land subsidence. The northern Gulf of Mexico coast is also a hotspot for hurricane landfalls, and several major storms have impacted this region in the past f...
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Alan E. Stewart
Storm surges require that coastal residents make necessary preparations and evacuate the coast prior to hurricane landfall. An important individual characteristic in preparing for tropical cyclones is hurricane personal self-efficacy. Coastal residents w...
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Alfred M. Klausmann
Hurricane Irene caused widespread and significant impacts along the U.S. east coast during 27?29 August 2011. During this period, the storm moved across eastern North Carolina and then tracked northward crossing into Long Island and western New England. ...
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Venkata B. Dodla, Srinivas Desamsetti and Anjaneyulu Yerramilli
The life cycle of Hurricane Katrina (2005) was simulated using three different modeling systems of Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) mesoscale model. These are, HWRF (Hurricane WRF) designed specifically for hurricane studies and WRF model with two ...
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Donovan Campbell and Clinton Beckford
In recent years, Jamaica has been seriously affected by a number of extreme meteorological events. The one discussed here, Hurricane Dean, passed along the south coast of the island in August 2007, damaging crops and disrupting livelihood activities for ...
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L. ZAVALA SANSÓN
The evolution of tropical cyclonic vortices on the eastern North Pacific is examined by means of a barotropic model with an idealized continental topography. The aim of the study is to investigate the trajectories of cyclones in...
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ERNESTO JÁUREGUI
The potential for damage from hurricanes landfalling in Mexico is assessed. During the 1951-2000 period, Pacific hurricane hits were more frequent on coastal areas of the northwest of the country (e.g., Sinaloa and the southern half of Baja California...
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Tracey Schafer, Nicole Dix, Shannon Dunnigan, K. Ramesh Reddy and Todd Z. Osborne
Hurricanes have the ability to export uncharacteristically large amounts of nutrients from terrestrial systems into riverine and estuarine networks, altering rates of ecosystem metabolism throughout the aquatic continuum. In order to explore these impact...
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Cigdem Ozkan, Talea Mayo and Davina L. Passeri
Wave energy conversion technologies have recently attracted more attention as part of global efforts to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy resources. While ocean waves can provide renewable energy, they can also be destructive to coastal areas th...
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Aikaterini P. Kyprioti, Ehsan Adeli, Alexandros A. Taflanidis, Joannes J. Westerink and Hendrik L. Tolman
During landfalling tropical storms, predictions of the expected storm surge are critical for guiding evacuation and emergency response/preparedness decisions, both at regional and national levels. Forecast errors related to storm track, intensity, and si...
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Ahmed Ahmouda, Hartwig H. Hochmair and Sreten Cvetojevic
Understanding human mobility patterns becomes essential in crisis management and response. This study analyzes the effect of two hurricanes in the United States on human mobility patterns, more specifically on trip distance (displacement), radius of gyra...
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