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Condition of remote reefs off southwest Cuba

Ciencias Marinas, 2010
There are few comprehensive studies on the condition of reefs that are remote from direct anthropogenic pressures and, therefore, ecological baseline data are scarce.
PM Alcolado, IE Morgan, PA Kramer, RN Ginsburg, P Blanchon, E de la Guardia, V Kosminin, S González-Ferrer, M Hernández   +8 more
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Leaf phenology as an indicator of ecological integrity

Ecosphere, 2023
Climate change leads to an increased frequency of severe weather events as well as stressful growing conditions. Together these changes may impact the resilience of ecosystems.
Lynsay Spafford, Andrew H. MacDougall, Yann Vitasse, Gianluca Filippa, Andrew Richardson, James Steenberg, J. Jelle Lever   +6 more
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Global Disaster Forecasting with Space Weather and Geophysical Intelligence [PDF]

Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2020
There are many opportunities to integrate Space Weather data into global weather and Natural Disaster Forecasting models. The Earth as a Stellar Transformer Hypothesis builds on the Global Electrical Circuit model.
Bruce Leybourne, David Orr
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A Performance-Based Wind Engineering Framework for Engineered Building Systems Subject to Hurricanes

Frontiers in Built Environment, 2021
Over the past decade, significant research efforts have been dedicated to the development of performance-based wind engineering (PBWE). Notwithstanding these efforts, frameworks that integrate the damage assessment of the structural and envelope system ...
Zhicheng Ouyang, Seymour M.J. Spence
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A Review of ENSO Influence on the North Atlantic. A Non-Stationary Signal

Atmosphere, 2016
The atmospheric seasonal cycle of the North Atlantic region is dominated by meridional movements of the circulation systems: from the tropics, where the West African Monsoon and extreme tropical weather events take place, to the extratropics, where the ...
Belén Rodríguez-Fonseca, Roberto Suárez-Moreno, Blanca Ayarzagüena, Jorge López-Parages, Iñigo Gómara, Julián Villamayor, Elsa Mohino, Teresa Losada, Antonio Castaño-Tierno   +8 more
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Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Physical Drivers, Modeling and Impact Assessment

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020
Extreme weather and climate events, including hurricanes [...]
Wei Zhang, Xiaosong Yang
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A multi-decadal analysis of river discharge and suspended sediment load in three Texas coastal rivers in relation to hurricanes, seasonal rainfall, and ENSO

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
Coastal river discharge and sediment load exert major influence on the sustainability of coastal systems. Controlled by various hydroclimatic/hydrometeorological agents, they exhibit distinct trend/variability at different time scales.
Qiang Yao, Sanjeev Joshi, Kam-Biu Liu, Erika Rodrigues, Erika Rodrigues, Dongxiao Yin, Dongxiao Yin   +6 more
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Component Assessment of the Electric Transmission Grid to Hurricanes

Earth's Future, 2023
The increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events from climate change necessitates understanding impacts on critical infrastructure, particularly electrical transmission grids.
Zachary D. Schumann, Christopher M. Chini   +1 more
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Deep learning for real-time social media text classification for situation awareness – using Hurricanes Sandy, Harvey, and Irma as case studies

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2019
Social media platforms have been contributing to disaster management during the past several years. Text mining solutions using traditional machine learning techniques have been developed to categorize the messages into different themes, such as caution ...
Manzhu Yu, Qunying Huang, Han Qin, Chris Scheele, Chaowei Yang   +4 more
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Coral Ecosystem Resilience, Conservation and Management on the Reefs of Jamaica in the Face of Anthropogenic Activities and Climate Change

Diversity, 2010
Knowledge of factors that are important in reef resilience and integrity help us understand how reef ecosystems react following major anthropogenic and environmental disturbances.
M. James C. Crabbe
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