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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"tropical storms"”.
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The influence of the Atlantic Meridional Mode on the frequency, duration, and intensity of tropical North Atlantic cyclones
… Meridional Mode (AMM) and its influence on tropical storm activity in the North Atlantic Basin. The Atlantic Meridional Mode is the oscillating sea- surface temperature (SST) gradient anomaly between the Northern Hemisphere (NH) and Southern Hemisphere (SH) portions of the Tropical Atlantic …
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Investigating the evolution and formation of coastlines and the response to sea-level rise
… indicative of a site impacted more frequently by tropical storms rather than extra-tropical storms. To understand how offshore wave climate and underlying geometry of a carbonate reef platform shapes evolution of atolls, I simulate the hydrodynamics of a simplified reef flat, using XBeach, a …
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Investigating the evolution and formation of coastlines and the response to sea-level rise
… indicative of a site impacted more frequently by tropical storms rather than extra-tropical storms. To understand how offshore wave climate and underlying geometry of a carbonate reef platform shapes evolution of atolls, I simulate the hydrodynamics of a simplified reef flat, using XBeach, a …
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SIGNAL ANALYSIS AND RADIOHOLOGRAPHIC METHODS FOR AIRBORNE RADIO OCCULTATIONS
… observing localized transient events, such as tropical storms, current LEO satellite systems cannot provide sufficiently high temporal and spatial resolution soundings. An airborne RO (ARO) system has therefore been developed for localized GPS-RO campaigns. The open-loop (OL) tracking in …
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The place of international law and relevant bodies in addressing climate change displacement – the move towards cooperation
… on health to rising sea-levels, change in tropical storms and cyclone frequency or intensity, changes in rainfall regimes, increases in temperatures, changes in atmospheric chemistry and the melting of mountain glaciers. While the impacts and effects of climate change vary, environmental …
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Estimating Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone Landfall Probability for the United States
… examines the historical record of hurricanes and tropical storms 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 …
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Characteristics of tornadoes associated with land-falling Gulf Coast tropical cyclones
Tropical cyclone tornadoes are brief and often unpredictable events that can produce fatalities and create considerable economic loss. Given these uncertainties, it is important to understand the characteristics and factors that contribute to tornado formation within tropical cyclones. This thesis …
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Experiments in numerical forecasting of tropical storm movement
… the most accurate approach to forecasting tropical cyclones. The numerical model in this study utilizes the U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical Weather Facility's (FNWF) so-called decomposition (SR) fields to produce geostrophic steering currents for tropical storms and/or hurricanes and typhoons. …
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CLIMATE CHANGE, SHIFTS IN TROPICAL STORM REGIMES AND TRIADICA SEBIFERA INVASION IN COASTAL MISSISSIPPI, UNITED STATES
… events (e.g., fire, drought, hurricanes, wind storms, and inundation), but the extent of these disturbance events and their impacts on natural ecosystems may vary regionally. Rising sea level, increased frequency and intensity of tropical storms, and altered inundation regimes are likely to …
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An Integrated Approach for Developing Adaptation Strategies in Climate Planning: A Case Study of Vulnerability in Dukes County, Massachusetts
… sensitive hazards, such as sea level rise and tropical storms, pose an important risk to the population, built environment, and the natural environment that has made the study area a highly desirable New England tourist destination.</p>
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Teleconnective Influences on the Strength of Post-tropical Cyclones
<p>Over the 1951-2009 time period, 47% of all tropical systems in the Atlantic Basin transitioned to post-tropical storms. These storms are capable of producing hurricaneforce winds, torrential, flooding rains and storm surge that floods coastal areas. This study adds to previous climatological …
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Operational Use of Specific Differential Phase Shift in Dual Polarization Radars
… Radar and observation data from 17 convective storms and 8 locations during two land-falling tropical storms were studied. It was shown for convective storms that the single greatest KDP pixel value for each radar scan during the studied storms had a stronger relationship to observed rainfall …
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Perceptions of hurricane hazards in the Mid-Atlantic region
… of the United States is susceptible to many tropical cyclone hazards such as storm surge, damaging winds, and flooding from heavy rainfall. Within the past fifteen years this region has experienced hurricanes Isabel in 2003 and Irene in 2011, as well as several tropical storms. This region …
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Port Infrastructure Resilience through Combined Wind-Surge Demand Characterization
… of ports, such as cranes, are jeopardized when tropical storms approach land. While wind is the only environmental load used to design dockside container cranes, storm surge often accompanies severe wind events and can create large structural loads. This study focuses on determining coupled …
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Cultures of Forecasting: Volatile and Vulnerable Nature, Knowledge, and the Future of Uncertainty
… and tsunami observatories, in planes tracking tropical storms, and bunkers dug into active volcanoes; at how instruments and technologies such as seismographs, windows, globes, speakers, and electrical tomography, mediate and transform relations with nature, the future, and governance. It …
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Morphological and Physiological Leaf Adaptations to Seasonal and Diurnal Abiotic Stress for Two Barrier Island Sand Dune Species
… episodic storm events, such as hurricanes, tropical storms, and nor'easters. In addition, barrier islands produce, protect, and maintain inlets, bays, estuaries, wetlands, and salt marshes, which are highly productive areas in terms of net primary production and provide important ecosystem …
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Beach-dune interactions and a new cycle of foredune evolution, Gulf County, Florida
… nature’s first line of defense against powerful storms, protecting inland development and human populations. With the ever-increasing possibility of sea-level rise and the potential for increased frequency of major tropical storms, coastal mapping and understanding foredune development are …
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A 1000-year sedimentary record of hurricane, fire, and vegetation history from a coastal lagoon in southwestern Dominican Republic
… cal YBP and present may be tied to hurricanes or tropical storms and increasing late-Holocene aridity in the region as documented by several studies from the Caribbean.
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Use of soft computing pattern recognition techniques to analyse tropical cyclones from meteorological satellite data
Tropical cyclones are potentially the most destructive of all natural meteorological hazards. When these cloud systems make landfall, they cause significant amounts of human death and injury as well as extensive damage to property, therefore reliable cyclone detection and classification form …
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Variability and long-term trends of climate extremes over the Limpopo, South Africa
… and low altitude. Anomalous cut-off lows, tropical cyclones and tropical storms are the major extreme producing systems affecting the Limpopo province whilst the Botswana High becomes dominant during heat waves and drought. Extreme weather events are common in Limpopo during summertime and …
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