From the Eye of the Storm to Epidemiological Footprints After the Floods: Viral, Vector-Borne, and One Health Risks Post-Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica [PDF]
VirusesHurricanes cause severe impacts on lives, livelihoods, and essential systems. Hurricane Melissa impacted Jamaica as a Category 5 cyclone, resulting in estimated losses of approximately 41% of national GDP (US$8.8 billion) and eliciting widespread damage ...
Kirk O. Douglas, Gail Ranglin-Edwards
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Hurricane-induced demographic changes in a non-human primate population [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Major disturbance events can have large impacts on the demography and dynamics of animal populations. Hurricanes are one example of an extreme climatic event, predicted to increase in frequency due to climate change, and thus expected to be a ...
Dana O. Morcillo +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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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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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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The resilience of coastal marshes to hurricanes: The potential impact of excess nutrients
Environment International, 2020 Hurricanes pose an increasing threat to coastal environments as the intensity and severity of hurricanes are predicted to increase under the changing climate. Coastal wetlands are effective nature-based defenses of coastal cities against storms. However,
Yu Mo +2 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Although rivers support significant unionid mussel (Unionida: Unionidae) diversity, Gulf of Mexico tributary rivers have been subject to changes in water quality and habitat due to altered watershed land use.
Corinne T. Bird +3 more
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The Impact of Eastern Pacific Warming on Future North Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenesis
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 Tropical cyclogenesis in the Atlantic is influenced by environmental parameters including vertical wind shear, which is sensitive to forcing from the tropical Pacific.
Kristopher B. Karnauskas +2 more
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