Sentences with phrase «of hurricane researchers»

Not exact matches

Some researchers warn a catastrophic cyber event triggering thousands of policy holders to file claims simultaneously could lead to insurers going bankrupt, like in 1992 after Hurricane Andrew, or require a federal bailout like in 2008.

«As a general comment they show a lack of appreciation for the physical scale of hurricanes and simple ignorance of how they work,» wrote Hugh Willoughby, a hurricane researcher at Florida International University, in an email.

I tend to think of myself as someone who was involved in the effort to build a sense of community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina through my work with the theater and the researchers at the University of Houston.

«When we get a particularly bad storm, people often try and attribute it to something larger,» Jennifer Collins, a hurricane researcher at the University of South Florida, says.

The researchers found that the proportion of rarer, strong hurricanes to commoner, weaker ones was always the same.

Hurricane Katrina destroyed the habitat of breeding colonies in Louisiana's Pearl River Basin, for instance, but bird numbers held steady, researchers noted in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.

The meteorological community has proposed other ways of measuring hurricanes, but some researchers stand in staunch support of Saffir — Simpson.

Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change.

But, currently, public warning researchers are each carving out little hazard niches (hurricanes, wildfires, hazmat), as well as single dimensions of the warning problem (timing them, delimiting risk zones, selecting protective actions).

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

Low rate of hurricane landfalls may not last Researchers say heavier downpours are already occurring in the United States.

In May, a team of researchers announced that hurricanes play an underappreciated role in how heat is regulated in the oceans.

Silver Award: Alex Kuffner The Providence Journal «Rising seas, rising stakes» Nov. 20, 2016 «Losing ground» March 19, 2017 «On the brink» July 9, 2017 Judges praised Alex Kuffner for his comprehensive look at the risks facing Rhode Island communities from either a once - in - a-century hurricane or a sea level rise of seven feet by the end of the century, as projected in a worst - case scenario by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

But Hurricane Harvey is unlike any past test of the gulf's resilience, and researchers are jump - starting studies to document the aftermath, building on baseline data from existing research projects, some of which have been underway for decades.

UF researchers used erosion data and post-storm nourishment strategies after hurricanes Ivan and Dennis and Tropical Storm Katrina struck the island, which is part of Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach.

Using weather and sea data from the time of the sinking, along with a new theoretical model, a Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has calculated that there was as much as a one - in - 130 chance — over a period of time and area — that a rogue wave 46 feet high (14 meters) could have occurred during the hurricane.

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.

If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Previously, researchers thought rain in the eyewall increased a hurricane's intensity, as heat released from the condensing water added to the overall power of the storm.

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..

In a new study published in the journal PLOS One, Jennifer Horney, PhD, associate professor and head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Texas A&M School of Public Health, along with researchers from Texas A&M and the Pacific Northwest National Lab, examined concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) before and after Hurricane Harvey in the Houston environmental justice neighborhood of Manchester.

In the GRL study, researchers used a statistical model based on historical climate data to separate how much of the extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey was due to natural influences and how much was due to human influences.

Carrie Beth Lasley, a researcher at the University of New Orleans Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology, adds that mandatory annual inspections of platforms — or at the very least after a hurricane — are also needed.

As a result, the Florida reefs recovered within two weeks, much faster than their counterparts in other areas of the Caribbean that did not experience the benefit of hurricane - induced cooling, such as those in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the researchers report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

With the Nov. 30 end of the 2014 hurricane season just weeks away, a University of Iowa researcher and his colleagues have found that North Atlantic tropical cyclones in fact have a significant effect on the Midwest.

He and his fellow researchers used a computational fluid dynamics model to simulate microstructure of the air - sea interface under hurricane force winds.

Another hurricane - moderating hypothesis, this one advanced by Daniel Rosenfeld of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and William Woodley, an independent weather - modification researcher based in Colorado, holds that seeding a hurricane's lower reaches with microscopic dust particles — perhaps microbits of salt — would generate minute water droplets by giving the vapor something to attach to.

A team including an Iowa State University researcher studied Galveston, Texas, homes following Hurricane Ike, finding that the types of housing and homeowners — and how U.S. recovery policy handles each — played a major role in recovery outcomes.

That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.

Researchers from a set of international universities are working together to save an invaluable scientific resource that was badly damaged in Hurricane Maria — a population of rhesus monkeys living on a remote island — and the staff and facilities that support them.

The researchers note that, historically, the design of Southeast Louisiana's hurricane flood risk reduction system has hinged on raising and adding levees in response to river or hurricane events that impact the region.

Hurricane and other researchers at NIF are attempting to achieve a similar effect by firing 192 laser beams into a gold chamber, which converts the lasers» energy into pulses of X-rays.

That pairing marked another first; never before had two Category 3 storms been in that area at the same time, according to hurricane researcher and forecaster Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University.

The Berkeley Lab researchers looked at images from Landsat 8, a satellite that takes detailed images of the entire Earth every 16 days, comparing images from before and after the hurricanes and eliminating effects due to clouds and shadows.

Those unexpectedly warm waters were what caused some of the seasonal forecasts to slightly underestimate the amount of storm activity in the Atlantic, Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher and seasonal forecaster at Colorado State University, wrote at the Capital Weather Gang blog.

Donnelly led a team of researchers who pinpointed the hurricane peaks after examining 2,000 years worth of storm - thrown sand, which washed from the ocean into a Massachusetts salt pond, settling as layers of sandy sediment that was sandwiched between layers of ever - accumulating mud.

Writing in Earth's Future, an American Geophysical Union journal, the researchers concluded that both hurricane peaks coincided with periods when surface waters of the Atlantic Ocean were hotter than normal.

Hurricane season may be enhancing the current problem, resulting in low water circulation in the southwestern Caribbean and thus creating a «warm pocket» of water along the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica, the researchers speculate.

Researchers speculate that the increase of heartworm positive cases in Canada is due to dogs coming up from the US to be adopted here in Canada, these dogs specifically after hurricane Katrina helped to increase the numbers in Canada significantly.

In his letter, Landsea refers to the large body of evidence (ie more than just one study) supporting the consensus among hurricane researchers that is there is no detectable human signal in the hurricane record.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on coastal impacts from hurricanes have run fresh simulations of the possible storm surge as Hurricane Irene hits the New York metropolitan region.

In 2006, amid persistent scientific debate over the possible role of greenhouse - driven warming in shaping hurricane patterns, 10 leading researchers in the field issued a single statement on vulnerability.

University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy figures that 75 to 80 percent of the devastation can be blamed on the human factor.

In 2008, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and University of Miami published «Global warming and United States landfalling hurricanes,» a long - view analysis of patterns in hurricanes striking United States shores in relation to climate conditions.

«What's really important for Atlantic hurricane activity, what really gets things cranked up, is when the Atlantic warms relative to the rest of the tropics,» said Thomas Knutson, one of the paper's authors and a climate researcher at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

The scientists were Peter C. Frumhoff, an ecologist who directs science and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Kerry Emanuel, a veteran climate and hurricane researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

There is also strong disagreement between researchers over the accuracy of claims that hurricane activity has peaked over the past ten years.

This raises the prospect that, as hurricane activity increases for whatever reason, the threat of wildfires in the Southeast and Gulf Coast regions could grow as the climate continues to warm, some researchers say.

Landsea, then a meteorology researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and author of the first two IPCC assessments on hurricanes, countered that there was no peer - reviewed science to substantiate that claim.

Because hurricane caused flooding was more prevalent during the Little Ice Age when Atlantic temperatures averaged 1 to 2 degrees F colder than today researchers concluded, «The frequent occurrence of major hurricanes in the western Long Island record suggests that other climate phenomena, such as atmospheric circulation, may have been favorable for intense hurricane development despite lower sea surface temperatures.»