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Landfall
Landfall considers the arbitrariness of our attachments to both people and places, while at the same time marveling at the inevitability and necessity of those attachments. The importance of place in these poems, most prominently that of southern Louisiana, is pervasive, and the insistent …
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Landfall: reading and writing Australia through climate change
This creative writing thesis begins with the premise that climate change poses critical outcomes for the Australian continent, and asks what the consequences of this are as the precariousness of Australia’s future in relation to climate change continues to gather pace. Comprising a novel (70%) and …
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Estimating Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone Landfall Probability for the United States
… in the Atlantic Basin to determine the eventual landfall probability for the United States coastline based on the complete tracks of the storms. A spatial dimension is added so that the entire basin is evaluated to determine which storms in all portions of the basin ultimately strike the United …
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Modeling the impact of land surface feedbacks on post landfall tropical cyclones
… in weather systems. Land surface can affect landfalling tropical cyclones in two ways: (i) when the cyclone is offshore and land can influence cyclones by introducing dry (or moist) air that can weaken (or strengthen) the organized convective structure of cyclones, and (ii) land can affect …
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Evaluating the Role of Atmospheric Stability in Generating Asymmetrical Precipitation During the Landfall of Hurricane Florence (2018)
… was unique due to its slow storm motion during landfall, causing convective rainbands to produce high amounts of precipitation along the coast of North Carolina. This study focuses on the relationship between precipitation asymmetries and atmospheric stability surrounding the tropical cyclone …
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Regional Differences in the Spatial Patterns of Precipitation Bands in Hurricanes Through Landfall along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coasts of the United States
… changes in TC rainband structure around landfall, I quantify the spatial distribution of precipitation in 62 landfalling TCs along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts of the U.S. between 1998 and 2014. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B42 product is utilized to assess …
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The Evolution and Distribution of Precipitation during Tropical Cyclone Landfalls using the GPM IMERG Product
Landfalling tropical cyclone (TC) induced precipitation poses a great risk to the rising coastal population globally. However, the impacts of tropical cyclone precipitation (TCP) are still difficult to predict due to rapid structural changes during landfall. This study applies a shape metric …
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Tropical Cyclone Risk Assessment Using Statistical Models
… coastal regions of Eastern Asia when they make landfall. The limited amount of observational data and the high computational cost of running TC-permitting dynamical models indicate a need for statistical models that can simulate large ensembles of TCs in order to cover the full range of possible …
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Numerical modelling of Tropical Cyclone Dineo and its rainfall impacts over north-eastern South Africa
… Mozambique Channel on 12 February 2017 and made landfall over the south-central coast of Mozambique on 15 February. This study investigates the atmospheric circulation and potential mechanisms responsible for the heavy rainfall that occurred during the passage of ex-Tropical Cyclone Dineo inland …
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The Joint Influence of ENSO and NAO on US Landfalling Hurricanes and their Origination Points
… were then examined in addition to hurricane landfall and origination locations (i.e., the position hurricane strength is achieved) to see if atmospheric anomalies could account for relationships between ENSO and NAO or landfalling hurricanes and their formation regions. This research found a …
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Tropical cyclones in the South-West Indian Ocean : intensity changes, oceanic interaction and impacts
… A Climatology of TCs in the SWIO including landfall in the area of Mozambique and Madagascar was developed for the 1952-2007 and 1980-2007 periods.
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Proxy records of paleohurricanes for the western and southern caribbean
… of abruptly alternating periods of hurricane landfall frequency for Nicaragua and Belize. Three Belizean transects exhibit an Active period (hyperactivity) occurring from ~2000-6000 cal yr BP, although dating is inconsistent across the transects. An Active period covering the last 500 years is …
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Determining the Viability of Recent Storms as Modern Analogues for North-Central Gulf of Mexico Paleotempestology Through Sedimentary Analysis and Storm Surge Reconstruction
… (2005) are two notable hurricanes that made landfall in virtually the same location in Mississippi. However, fully understanding the risks and processes associated with hurricane impacts is impeded by a short and fragmented instrumental record. Paleotempestology could potentially use modern …
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The Role of Geographic Information Systems in Post-Disaster Neighborhood Recovery: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
… in post-Katrina and Rita New Orleans. The landfall of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita along the Gulf Coast Region changed the way that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are used for Emergency Management and Response, PPGIS, and community recovery. This research explores GIS and PPGIS best …
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“If it happened in…” a pseudo-global warming assessment of tropical cyclone tornadoes
… of tornadoes by tropical cyclones (TCs) making landfall in the United States Atlantic Basin. Hurricane Ivan (2004), a prolific tropical cyclone tornado (TCT)-producing storm, is the particular case under consideration. This dissertation also seeks to document changes in risk due to these changes …
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Analysis and modeling of hurricane impacts on a coastal Louisiana lake bottom
… entire model domain prior to Hurricane Rita’s landfall were above the critical value causing erosion of fine bottom sediments, and quickly decreased in the western portion during Rita’s landfall, indicating significant deposition in this western portion of the lake. The ideal event …
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Storm signatures in coastal ponds and marshes over the late Holocene
… marshes can provide a proxy for tropical cyclone landfall, the development and interpretation of which is imperative to understanding past climate trends and informing decisions for the future. This thesis uses a variety of methods to quantify the spatiotemporal signatures of tropical cyclone …
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Investigating Atmospheric River Precipitation and Associated Snowpack Characteristics Under a Future Warmer Climate Scenario: Case Studies from the Eastern Sierra Nevada near Donner Summit, California
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) making landfall along the California coast have been warming since the 1980's, resulting in changing AR precipitation and temperature characteristics in the Sierra Nevada of California, increasing flood risk, hydrologic resource stress, and impacting winter recreation and …
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Fire & Flood: How the Lessons of the Past can Apply to the Present to Build the Future
… disaster to ever befall the United States made landfall initially near Buras, Louisiana and then ultimately near the mouth of the Pearl River. The associated storm surge caused New Orleans' protective levee system to fail, inundating the City with brackish floodwaters for weeks on end. This was …
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Resilience of power distribution systems under extreme weather conditions
… to reduce customer outages during hurricane landfall is assessed. After hurricane occurrence, wood pole repair and restoration schemes are implemented that restore 100% of power back in the system. Network hardening strategies,including upgrading wood pole infrastructure and integrating micro …
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