The realistic and accurate estimation of hurricane intensity is highly desired in many scientific and operational applications. With the advance of passive microwave polarimetry, an alternative opportunity for retrieving wind speed in hurricanes has become available. A wind speed retrieval algorithm for wind speeds above 20 m/s in hurricanes has been developed by using the 6.8 and 10.7 GHz vert...

Hurricanes threaten drinking water supplies in Florida through problems such as contamination and shortages. The purpose of this research was to review management policies addressing potable paucity caused by Hurricane Irma. A survey used understand these policies’ effects from the general public’s perspective. perceived effectiveness analyzed via cross-tabulations. results study identified sev...

In 2014, researchers concluded that hurricanes with female names were deadlier than male-named hurricanes. The analysis used data on over six decades included a period of time when only used. this paper, the author examines all (with alternating and male names) along Atlantic Coast Gulf Mexico from 1979 to 2021. shows are no more severe (in terms maximum wind speed or barometric pressure) Moreo...

Flooding during hurricanes is a hazard for New York City. Flood height is determined by storm surge characteristics, timing (high or low tide) and relative sea-level (RSL) change. The contribution from these factors is estimated for seven historical hurricanes (1788–2012) that caused flooding in New York City. Measurements from The Battery tide gauge and historical accounts are supplemented wit...

A new bulk parameterization of the air–sea momentum flux at high wind speeds is proposed based on coupled wave–wind model simulations for 10 tropical cyclones that occurred in the Atlantic Ocean during 1998–2003. The new parameterization describes how the roughness length increases linearly with wind speed and the neutral drag coefficient tends to level off at high wind speeds. The proposed par...

Hurricanes are common throughout the Caribbean (Alaka 1976; Vega and Binkley 1993), and they often cause extensive disturbance to forests (Walker et al. 1991; Yih et al. 1991; Smith et al. 1994; Zimmerman et al. 1994; Bellingham, Tanner, and Healley 1995; Bellingham et al. 1996; Foster, Fluet, and Bosse 1999; Stoddart 1963). Within the Caribbean, the Maya zone (southeastern Mexico, Belize, and ...

The present study assessed fear of hurricanes in children who had been confronted with this natural event (i.e., Antillean children, n=161). Their fear levels were compared to those of children who are unfamiliar with such an event (i.e., Belgian children, n=185). Antillean children reported significantly higher levels of fear of storms than Belgian children did, thus providing support for the ...

Hurricanes, rapidly increasing in complexity and strength a warmer world, are one of the worst natural disasters 21st century. Further studies integrating changing hurricane features thus crucial to aid prediction major hurricanes. With this mind, we present new framework based on automated decision tree analysis, which has capability identify most important cloud structural parameters from GOE...