In the report "Notes from the Field: Mortality Associated with Hurricane Matthew - United States, October 2016" on page 145, the last sentence of the first paragraph should have read "This report summarizes state-confirmed Hurricane Matthew-associated deaths that occurred during October 1-October 21 in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia."

After hurricane disturbances in tropical forests, the size structure and species composition are affected by immediate mortality, subsequent recruitment individual growth. Often, post-disturbance stand-level data presented but understanding of components that affect changes growth longer-term responses to forest lacking. To answer questions about how recruitment, change among successional Plant...

Katrina (a tropical cyclone/hurricane) began to strengthen reaching a Category 5 storm on 28th August, 2005 and its winds reached peak intensity of 175 mph and pressure levels as low as 902 mb. Katrina eventually weakened to a category 3 storm and made a landfall in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, south of Buras on 29th August 2005. We investigate the time series intensity change...

We are developing schemes that predict future hurricane numbers by first predicting future sea surface temperatures (SSTs), and then apply the observed statistical relationship between SST and hurricane numbers. As part of this overall goal, in this study we compare the historical performance of three simple statistical methods for making five-year SST forecasts. We also present SST forecasts f...

Hurricane Irma (September 2017) was one of the most devastating hurricanes in recent times. In January 2018, a post-hurricane field survey conducted on Anegada (British Virgin Islands) to report erosional and depositional evidence caused by Irma's storm surge waves. We document type extent hurricane-induced geomorphological changes, allowing for an improved risk assessment hurricane-related inu...

[1] A new pathway for the negative impact of ENSO on tropical North Atlantic (NAtl) storm activity is examined empirically. Anomalous tropospheric temperatures communicated from the Pacific by wave dynamics are hypothesized to impact storm development by affecting column stability relative to equilibrium with NAtl sea surface temperature (SST). This combines recent teleconnection theory with th...

The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study was designed to examine the current location, well-being, and plans of people who lived in the City of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck on 29 August 2005. The study is based on a representative sample of pre-Katrina dwellings in the city. Respondents were administered a short paper-and-pencil interview by mail, by telephone, or in person....

Theoretical and empirical evidence are combined to show that underwater acoustic sensing techniques may be valuable for measuring the wind speed and determining the destructive power of a hurricane. This is done by first developing a model for the acoustic intensity and mutual intensity in an ocean waveguide due to a hurricane and then determining the relationship between local wind speed and u...

This study is a qualitative grounded theory examination of the preand post-Katrina life of hurricane survivors. Forty heads of households with school-age children who lived in New orleans during Hurricane Katrina were interviewed 6 to 8 months apart. Findings suggest that low-income study participants had experienced multiple negative life events linked to their poverty status prior to Hurrican...