Sentences with phrase «in hurricane research»

I wanted to know whether the students, who had been very actively reading the hurricane literature and were involved in hurricane research themselves, would find this site useful (and nearly all of them were first time visitors to climateaudit).

Back in 2006, after the devastation following Hurricane Katrina the National Science Board called for an increase of $ 300 million in hurricane research funding per year.

Not exact matches

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has a hurricane severity scale that factors in wind speed, hurricane size, and forward speed (whether it stalls or not) to rate the potential destructiveness of a storm 1 - to - 10 scale.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

BOEM initiated the idea for the geological and geophysical research, known as the Atlantic Sand Assessment Project (ASAP), following Hurricane Sandy in order to identify and assess new potential sand resources which might be needed in the future.

A revision to Buffalo Wild Wings (NASDAQ: BWLD)'s financial model is necessary to reflect promotional changes, the impact of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and chicken wing prices, analysts at Canaccord Genuity commented in a research report.

NOAA would receive an additional $ 50 million for research weather supercomputing infrastructure and for improvement of satellite ground services used in hurricane intensity and track prediction.

The recent hurricanes presented a rare opportunity for Lasker and Edmunds to study how corals recover from disasters — an important line of research in a warming world where rising ocean temperatures are stressing reefs.

Álvaro Corral of the Centre for Mathematical Research in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues looked at records of hurricanes from four ocean basins around the world between 1966 and 2007.

Their research, published yesterday in Nature Communications, helped identify why 2011's Hurricane Irene and 10 other summer hurricanes in the Mid-Atlantic failed to intensify as predicted.

The results of this research could «impact our understanding of wind - based damage, such as the destruction by the recent Hurricane Irene,» he says, which toppled trees across a large swath of the northeastern United States in September.

«Overall, it appears global warming might not affect the strengths of most hurricanes,» says meteorologist Chris Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, Florida.

As Hurricane Sandy battered the US eastern seaboard that night, the many universities, labs and research stations in its path would feel the effects of power outages, damaging winds and flooding.

A team led by biogeochemist Nicholas Bates of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research in Ferry Reach measured the effects of Hurricane Felix, which swept over two long - term ocean sampling stations near Bermuda in August 1995.

Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now analyzed the magnitude of future hurricane losses in relation to economic growth.

«Even if we take the extreme of these error estimates, we are left with a significant trend since 1890 and a significant trend in major hurricanes starting anytime before 1920,» say atmospheric scientists Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Marks, now director of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, Florida, recalls the frantic hour he spent attempting to repair the plane before somehow managing to land.

The Trump administration would pay for hurricane relief in part by cutting conservation and research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-- an idea that's running into a roadblock from advocates for those programs.

First the good news: Universities and research institutions in Texas suffered far less damage than some had feared from Hurricane Ike.

Sandy hit New York as a team led by Kemp was researching sea - level change and flooding that had occurred in seven historically damaging hurricanes in New York since 1788.

What's more, whereas many models tend to overestimate the intensity of hurricanes in their predictions, theirs was a much closer match to historical observations, the researchers report online in Geophysical Research Letters.

«In a lot of modern research in crisis management, people are looking at how communities mobilize along social networks to overcome traumatic environmental crises, like we saw with Hurricane Katrina,» said Lewis Borck, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. candidate in the UA School of Anthropology in the College of Social and Behavioral ScienceIn a lot of modern research in crisis management, people are looking at how communities mobilize along social networks to overcome traumatic environmental crises, like we saw with Hurricane Katrina,» said Lewis Borck, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. candidate in the UA School of Anthropology in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciencein crisis management, people are looking at how communities mobilize along social networks to overcome traumatic environmental crises, like we saw with Hurricane Katrina,» said Lewis Borck, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. candidate in the UA School of Anthropology in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciencein the UA School of Anthropology in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciencein the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

«There likely will be little traces of the hydrocarbons in the water that is condensed to form rain, but it will likely make up less than normal pollution does,» says research meteorologist Frank Marks, director of hurricane research at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Fla. «The amount of water vapor evaporated that might contain hydrocarbons related to the spill will be very, very small.»

Chris W. Landsea is a researcher at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory / Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), located in Miami, Fla..

Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall was three times more likely than a storm from the early 1900s and 15 percent more intense as a result of climate change, a new study in Environmental Research Letters found.

The two papers released yesterday follow research published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that found that human activity could make another Hurricane Harvey far more likely.

The research by hydrologists and land - use experts at Rice University and Texas A&M University at Galveston was published in the journal Natural Hazards Review just days before Hurricane / Tropical Storm Harvey inundated the Houston region and caused some of the most catastrophic flooding in U.S. history.

«While hurricanes are catastrophic events, the salt marsh doesn't respond catastrophically,» says Neil Kamal Ganju, a co-author and research oceanographer with USGS in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.

Kalluri, who 5 years ago saw colleagues» research devastated by damage from Hurricane Sandy while at Harvard Medical School in Boston, was pleasantly surprised by the center's response.

In the Bay of Biscay, the model predicts the average number of yearly hurricanes will increase from one to six (Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/kv2).

That's equivalent to a category 77 hurricane,» says Jesse Rogerson, who led the research as part of his PhD thesis in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at York U. «And we have reason to believe that there are quasar winds that are even faster.»

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Notes for Journalists Study authors Michael Wehner and Karin van der Wiel will present this research in a two - part press conference on hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria at the AGU Fall Meeting on Wednesday, 13 December 2017 starting at 2:30 p.m. CST.

The research was inspired by a serendipitous discovery after Hurricane Iris tore through Central America in 2001.

Recent research suggests that an AMO warm phase has been in effect since the mid-1990s, which has caused changes in rainfall in the southeastern US, and resulted in twice as many tropical storms becoming hurricanes than during cool phases.

In addition to the rise in major hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, the average number of named hurricanes each year has increased to about seven storms from five storms, though the exact reasons for this rise are still the subject of researcIn addition to the rise in major hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, the average number of named hurricanes each year has increased to about seven storms from five storms, though the exact reasons for this rise are still the subject of researcin major hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, the average number of named hurricanes each year has increased to about seven storms from five storms, though the exact reasons for this rise are still the subject of researcin the Atlantic basin, the average number of named hurricanes each year has increased to about seven storms from five storms, though the exact reasons for this rise are still the subject of research.

From the earliest days of Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm that made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, the analysts and staff of PRSN were assessing damage to the network and serving as a vital link in the island's emergency communications, said Elizabeth Vanacore, a PRSN assistant research professor.

«We believe that this research can help guide those standards to help turbines placed in hurricane prone regions survive these major hurricanes.»

«There's a lot of research on how different kinds of environmental disasters — such as forest fires, hurricanes, air pollution, or heat waves — impact human health, but the most widespread natural disaster is drought,» said lead author Jesse Berman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale FE&S, in a press release.

* «Attribution of Extreme Rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017» by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh et al. published in Environmental Research Letters on Wednesday 13 December 2017.

In its devastating path through Puerto Rico seven months ago, Hurricane Maria may have killed or severely damage between 23 million and 31 million trees, according to research from the US Department of Energy and the University of California at Berkeley.

The group, consisting of a scientist named Marlowe Cragis, his research assistant Radford Baines, the scientists daughter Ann, her fiancee Jerry Farrel, and a servant named Mario, meet the captain and his first mate and advise them to stay with them in a house because a hurricane is approaching.

New research published by Education Next last week looks at what has happened with public schools in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

Still in the depths of the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria, GLOBE students dove in and researched the question of «Improving the Drinking Water after Hurricane Maria Using Natural Resources.»

The Education Research Alliance (ERA) at Tulane University has a new web feature on their site summarizing their eight main conclusions about the impact of the school reforms in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

TCTA's letter pointed to a Congressional Research Service report listing disaster - related federal waivers granted during 2005 - 2009, including two accountability waivers received by Texas in 2006, the same year that the then - commissioner issued «Not Rated» ratings to hurricane - impacted schools / districts.

Tulane prides itself on being be the first research university to integrate public service into the core curriculum (in 2006, as part of the school's Renewal Plan following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina).

This question stimulates a lively, thoughtful classroom discussion that is followed up by students in small groups researching the formation, development, and effects of hurricanes to make public service announcements (PSAs) that encourage residents to evacuate a community before a storm hits.

Gallagher and Hartley's research shows a significant drop in total debt balance for many New Orleans residents following Hurricane Katrina, defying researchers» expectations.