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Carlos E. Ramos Scharrón, José Javier Hernández Ayala, Eugenio Y. Arima and Francis Russell
The Caribbean has displayed a capacity to fulfill climate change projections associated with tropical cyclone-related rainfall and flooding. This article describes the hydrometeorological characteristics of Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico in September 202...
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Eric D. Swain and Jason C. Bellino
The Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) was used to develop a simulation of watershed hydrology on the island of Puerto Rico for the period 1981?2017, concentrating on the Río Grande de Arecibo, a river with some of the highest streamflows on the...
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Said A. Mejia Manrique, Eric W. Harmsen, Reza M. Khanbilvardi and Jorge E. González
Flooding during extreme weather events damages critical infrastructure, property, and threatens lives. Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico (PR) on 20 September 2017. Sixty-four deaths were directly attributable to the flooding. This paper describes th...
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The complete failure of the power systems infrastructure in Puerto Rico, following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, severely hampered the recovery efforts of multiple critical infrastructure systems (CIS). Understanding the relationships of infrastruct...
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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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Angus Stocking
Hurricane Maria, which made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 2017, was the worst natural disaster ever to befall the U.S. commonwealth, and also the deadliest storm of the record-setting 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. With peak sustained winds of 17...
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Jerris R. Hedges, Karam F. A. Soliman, Gene D?Amour, Dong Liang, Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, Kenira Thompson, Josefina Romaguera, Silvia E. Rabionet Sabater and Richard Yanagihara
On 30 October 2017, selected faculty and administrators from Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) grantee institutions gathered to share first-hand accounts of the devastating impact of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, which had interrupte...
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