It has long been known that hurricanes, the strongest and most destructive atmospheric events, do not occur below a sea surface temperature near 26 C. The detailed dependence of hurricane power on ocean is increasing interest concern in prospect continuing global warming. was usefully quantified by Emanuel 2005 with definition tabulations dissipation index, PDI. This integral over relevant area...

It is widely held that humankind's destructive tendencies when exploiting natural resources leads to irreparable harm to the environment. Yet, this thinking runs counter to evidence that many ecological systems damaged by severe natural environmental disturbances (e.g., hurricanes) can restore themselves via processes of natural recovery. The emerging field of restoration ecology is capitalizin...

Hurricane Andrew, which made landfall on August 24, 1992, was one of the most destructive hurricanes in American history, causing atypically high levels of psychological and physical health impairment among the resident population and especially among vulnerable groups. This article investigates whether maternal exposure to Hurricane Andrew during pregnancy increased the risk of dystocia (or dy...

Do people judge hurricane risks in the context of gender-based expectations? We use more than six decades of death rates from US hurricanes to show that feminine-named hurricanes cause significantly more deaths than do masculine-named hurricanes. Laboratory experiments indicate that this is because hurricane names lead to gender-based expectations about severity and this, in turn, guides respon...

A proposed sparse recurrent neural network with flexible topology is used for trajectory prediction of the Atlantic hurricanes. For prediction of the future trajectories of a target hurricane, the most similar hurricanes to the target hurricane are found by comparing directions of the hurricanes. Then, the first and second differences of their positions over their life time are used for trainin...

A unique set of physical and optical observations of sediment resuspension was obtained during the passage of two hurricanes, Edouard and Hortense. The eyes of these hurricanes passed within approximately 110 and 350 km, respectively, of our study site on the continental shelf (100 km south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts) within a two-week period in the fall of 1996. Sediments were resuspended to m...