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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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Madinah Shamsu and Muhammad Akbar
Hurricane storm surges are influenced by wind intensity, forward speed, width and slope of the ocean bottom, central pressure, angle of approach, shape of coastal lines, local features, and storm size. A numerical experiment is conducted using the Advanc...
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Aristoteles Tegos, Alexandros Ziogas, Vasilis Bellos and Apostolos Tzimas
On 18 September 2020, the Karditsa prefecture of Thessaly region (Greece) experienced a catastrophic flood as a consequence of the IANOS hurricane. This intense phenomenon was characterized by rainfall records ranging from 220 mm up to 530 mm, in a time ...
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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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Sebastián Fallas Salazar and Alejandra M. Rojas González
The variability of climate, increase in population, and lack of territorial plans in Costa Rica have caused intense disasters with human and economic losses. In 2016, Hurricane Otto hit the country?s northern area, leaving substantial damages, including ...
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Marilu Meza-Ruiz and Alfonso Gutierrez-Lopez
Currently, it is possible to access a large amount of satellite weather information from monitoring and forecasting severe storms. However, there are no methods of employing satellite images that can improve real-time early warning systems in different r...
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David S. Ullman, Isaac Ginis, Wenrui Huang, Catherine Nowakowski, Xuanyu Chen and Peter Stempel
The southern New England coast of the United States is particularly vulnerable to land-falling hurricanes because of its east-west orientation. The impact of two major hurricanes on the city of Providence (Rhode Island, USA) during the middle decades of ...
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Seong Jin Noh, Jun-Hak Lee, Seungsoo Lee and Dong-Jun Seo
Hurricane Harvey was one of the most extreme weather events to occur in Texas, USA; there was a huge amount of urban flooding in the city of Houston and the adjoining coastal areas. In this study, we reanalyze the spatiotemporal evolution of inundation d...
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Kendra M. Dresback, Christine M. Szpilka, Xianwu Xue, Humberto Vergara, Naiyu Wang, Randall L. Kolar, Jia Xu and Kevin M. Geoghegan
With a growing population (over 40%) living in coastal counties within the U.S., there is an increasing risk that coastal communities will be significantly impacted by riverine/coastal flooding and high winds associated with tropical cyclones. Climate ch...
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Markes E. Johnson, Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez and Rigoberto Guardado-France
This study reports the first example of major erosion from hurricanes degrading a rocky coastline anywhere around the Gulf of California, although other sources of evidence are well known regarding the effect of inland erosion due to catastrophic rainfal...
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