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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Hurricane Rita"”.
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Organic carbon dynamics of the Neches River and its floodplain.
… Neches River discharges exceeded 10,000 cfs. Hurricane Rita passed through the Big Thicket National Preserve in September 2005. Dissolved organic carbon concentrations recorded after Hurricane Rita in the Neches River downstream of the floodplain were significantly higher than upstream of the …
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Radar-derived Thermodynamic Structure of a Major Hurricane in Vertical Wind Shear
… The retrieval is applied to observations in Hurricane Rita collected on 23 September 2005 during the RAINEX field campaign. The retrieved pressure and temperature fields along with the wind and precipitation structure of Hurricane Rita emphasize the impact of vertical wind shear on the …
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Analysis and modeling of hurricane impacts on a coastal Louisiana lake bottom
… of Sister Lake was imaged pre- and post-Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to provide a geologic framework for assessing the effects of these storms. Box cores were collected to provide site-specific “ground truth” data to further evaluate the accretion or erosion of sediment over the short …
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Supply chain disruptions : managing risks vs. managing crises
… bankruptcy and the other caused by Hurricane Rita, that occurred at a specialty chemical company, and uses these examples to demonstrate how managing crises is more costly than managing risks. In examining the events surrounding the sole-supplier bankruptcy, managing a crisis cost …
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Desiring Devastated Landscapes: Love After Ecological Collapse
… kin. Focusing on the U.S. Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, and the British Petroleum oil spill, I argue that new cosmology affords few opportunities to think about intimacies with severely damaged and toxic environments. I consider how to rethink common themes in religion …
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Deconstructing Gender in New Orleans: The Impact of Patriarchy and Social Vulnerability Before and After a Natural Disaster
On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, LA, causing catastrophic damage to the metropolitan area. The hurricane also exposed many of the racial, ethnic, and class-based vulnerabilities experienced by many New Orleanians. However, as is typically the case, gender was …
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Landscape analysis of vegetation change in coastal Louisiana following hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Investigations of hurricane disturbances on coastal vegetated communities are common, but relatively few are comprehensive across broad geographic regions. The 2005 hurricanes, Katrina and Rita, exposed Louisiana coastal landscapes to physical modifications and extensive and prolonged flooding, …
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Effects of Hurricane Disturbance on the Stopover Ecology of Intercontinental Landbird Migrants in Coastal Louisiana
… during stopover, and essentially none on how hurricanes affect their stopover biology during spring passage. About two thirds of eastern North American forest breeding bird species migrate twice annually between temperate breeding areas and subtropical and tropical wintering grounds, and …