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Perspectives on the Health Effects of Hurricanes: A Review and Challenges
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Hurricanes are devastating natural disasters which dramatically modify the physical landscape and alter the socio-physical and biochemical characteristics of the environment, thus exposing the affected communities to new environmental stressors, which ...
Samantha L Waddell +4 more
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Hurricanes Irma and Maria and Diabetes incidence in Puerto Rico
BMC Public Health, 2023 Objective To evaluate the impact of Hurricanes Irma/Maria on diabetes incidence in Puerto Rico. Mortality increased substantially after the hurricanes, but morbidity was not assessed.
Marijulie Martínez-Lozano +3 more
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Impact of hurricanes Irma and Maria on the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center initial tsunami warning capability for the Caribbean region [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2019 In September 2017, hurricanes Irma and Maria wreaked havoc across the Caribbean region. While obliterating the infrastructure in the Caribbean nations found along their path, both hurricanes gradually destroyed the existing seismic networks.
V. Sardina +6 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Extreme storms, such as tropical cyclones, are responsible for a significant portion of the plastic debris transported from land to sea yet little is known about the storm response of microplastics and other debris in offshore and open waters.
Ryota Nakajima +18 more
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ON THE INFLUENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING ON ATLANTIC HURRICANE FREQUENCY [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018 In this paper, the possible connection between the frequency of Atlantic hurricanes to the climate change, mainly the variation in the Atlantic Ocean surface temperature has been investigated.
S. R. Hosseini, M. Scaioni, M. Marani
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Performance-Based Wind Engineering: Background and State of the Art
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 This paper surveys the rapidly growing field of performance-based wind engineering (PBWE) of engineered systems, with focus on not only how PBWE has evolved since its early incarnations inspired by performance-based seismic engineering, but also the ...
Seymour M. J. Spence +1 more
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Plants, 2021 Mangrove wetlands are important ecosystems, yet human development coupled with climate change threatens mangroves and their large carbon stores. This study seeks to understand the soil carbon dynamics in hydrologically altered mangrove swamps by studying
Lauren N. Griffiths +3 more
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EchoGéo, 2020 This research concerning the North Atlantic Ocean is trying to establish a link between the extreme hurricanes (categories 4 and 5) activity and the global warming over the period 1945-2018.
Karl Hoarau +2 more
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Nonlinear analysis of the occurrence of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea [PDF]
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 2018 Hurricanes are complex systems that carry large amounts of energy. Their impact often produces natural disasters involving the loss of human lives and materials, such as infrastructure, valued at billions of US dollars.
B. Rojo-Garibaldi +4 more
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Applied Sciences, 2021 The prediction of severe weather events such as hurricanes is always a challenging task in the history of climate research, and many deep learning models have been developed for predicting the severity of weather events.
Jayanthi Devaraj +3 more
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