Hurricane risk to US northeast coast

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The northeastern coast of the United States could be hit by more frequent and more powerful hurricanes in the future, according to research published in the journal Scientific Reports

Winter hurricane in North Atlantic

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Hurricanes need warm water to form, and that’s why the North Atlantic’s hurricane season begins on June 1 each year and runs through late November. But on January 14, 2016, a tropical depression in the eastern Atlantic evolved into a hurricane, which was given the first name on 2016’s list of hurricane names: Alex.

Predicting inland flood damage from hurricanes

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Originally Published by Environmental Research Web – Tropical cyclones can cause huge amounts of damage in coastal regions of the US. What’s less well known is that properties far inland, hundreds of kilometres from the centre of the storm, can be harmed too; many of the householders affected by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 were not insured under the US National Flood Insurance Program.

Analyzing Tropical Waves Using the Parallel Ensemble Empirical Model Decomposition Method: Preliminary Results from Hurricane Sandy

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satellite" To reveal multiscale processes from high-resolution, multidimensional Earth science data, we have developed the parallel version of the ensemble empirical model decomposition (PEEMD) method with a three-level parallelism. In this study, we illustrate the performance of the PEEMD in extracting tropical wave components from idealized tropical wave solutions and large-scale environmental flows associated with Hurricane Sandy.