Browsing by Subject "Hurricane"
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(2023-05-02)Tropical cyclones (TCs) are dangerous weather events that cause significant damage to infrastructure and loss of life each year. TC track forecasting has improved considerably in recent decades, though improvements to ...
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(2013-09-28)Coastal Dune systems often are the first line of defense against storm surge and wave attack for coastal infrastructure and communities. The preservation of existing dune systems and the restoration of degraded ones should ...
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(2012-07-16)Over the past several years, some of the platforms in the Gulf of Mexico have been damaged completely, such that conventional P&A operations may not be possible. In these cases, plugging fluid needs to be pumped through ...
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(2012-07-16)Recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico (e.g., Ivan, Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Ike) were observed to develop wave conditions that were near or exceeded the predicted 100-year conditions. As a result, many offshore facilities, ...
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(2015-11-09)In 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall at Galveston Island, Texas, and caused significant impacts on the coastal environment. An assessment of the impact of Hurricane Ike on the shoreface and inner shelf sediments that occur ...
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(2015-12-16)Follet’s Island is a sand starved barrier island along the Northern coast of Texas. Human interaction has provided this island with an extended history of erosion, with some estimates having the island be completely eroded ...
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(2022-06-23)To best mitigate the damage from hurricane-induced extreme floods, it is essential to better understand the performances of existing flood risk management measures, as well as future climate change impacts on the floods ...
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(2020-11-04)After major disaster events, there is regularly a loss of population and increases in amounts of vacant land. Disaster recovery is notoriously uneven spatially, resulting in some neighborhoods lagging behind their neighbors ...
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(2019-07-08)The United States experienced a series of record-breaking climate and weather-related disasters in 2017. While this may have been a record-breaking year, it is not expected to be an anomaly. Climatologists warn that disasters ...
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(2012-11-30)To adequately evaluate risk associated hurricane flooding, numerous surge events must be considered, and the cost associated with high resolution numerical modeling for several storms is excessive. The Joint Probability ...
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(2012-07-11)The U.S. was appalled by the overall devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in American history. Just days later the Gulf Coast was swept by Hurricane Rita which amplified the already disastrous situation. ...
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(2014-11-14)Tropical Storm Isaac entered the Gulf of Mexico on 27 August 2012 and strengthened to become a Category 1 hurricane shortly before making landfall in southern Louisiana. Hurricane Isaac approached Southwest Pass near the ...