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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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Evgeny Poplavsky, Alexandra Kuznetsova and Yuliya Troitskaya
This paper presents an analysis of a new method for retrieving the parameters of the atmospheric boundary layer in hurricanes. This method is based on the approximation of the upper parabolic part of the wind speed profile and the retrieval of the lower ...
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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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Abram Musinguzi, Madinah Shamsu, Muhammad K. Akbar and Jason G. Fleming
In this study, it is demonstrated that hurricane wind intensity, forward speed, pressure, and track play an important role on the generation and propagation of coastal storm surges. Hurricane Irma, which heavily impacted the entire Florida peninsula in 2...
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Mahyar Ghorbanzadeh, Linoj Vijayan, Jieya Yang, Eren Erman Ozguven, Wenrui Huang and Mengdi Ma
Hurricane Irma, in 2017, made an unusual landfall in South Florida and the unpredictability of the hurricane?s path challenged the evacuation process seriously and left many evacuees clueless. It was likely to hit Southeast Florida but suddenly shifted i...
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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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Jean T. Ellis, Michelle E. Harris, Mayra A. Román-Rivera, J. Brianna Ferguson, Peter A. Tereszkiewicz and Sean P. McGill
Over one-third of the Earth?s population resides or works within 200 km of the coast. The increasing threat of coastal hazards with predicted climate change will impact many global citizens. Coastal dune systems serve as a natural first line of defense a...
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Jean T. Ellis and Mayra A. Román-Rivera
The purpose of this study is to document the geomorphic evolution of a mechanical dune over approximately one year following its installation and compare it to the recovery of a natural dune following the impact of Hurricane Matthew (2016). During the st...
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Jesse T. Wright, Raymond L. Placid, Marcus T. Allen
This study analyzes gasoline prices in Florida and Georgia before and after Hurricane Irma, a major weather event that affected both states in 2017. The analysis reveals that gasoline prices in both states increased and stabilized well in advance of stat...
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Tony Rey, Frédéric Leone, Thomas Candela, Ali Belmadani, Philippe Palany, Yann Krien, Raphael Cécé, Monique Gherardi, Matthieu Péroche and Narcisse Zahibo
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