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Best Practices in Disaster Grantmaking: Lessons From the Gulf Coast [PDF]
, 2008 Summarizes NYRAG members' response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, highlights innovative grantmaking, and outlines best practices, practices to avoid, and strategies for promoting the recovery, transformation, and revitalization of the Gulf ...
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Natural disasters: blessings in disguise? [PDF]
, 2011 This study examines the impact of natural disasters on market returns and on several industries that are likely to be affected by the disasters. We find that different natural disasters have different impacts on the returns of the market and on those of ...
Koerniadi, Hardjo +2 more
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Atmosphere, 2022 The 2020 hurricane season in the North Atlantic basin was the most active on record, with 30 named tropical cyclones. In this study, climate trends in oceanic and atmospheric parameters (including the sea surface temperatures, ocean heat content, cloud ...
José Javier Hernández Ayala +1 more
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HURRICANES AND HURRICANE TIDES
Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1957 Most of the maximum tides of record between Cape Hatteras, N.C., and Brownsville, Tex., have been produced by tropical cyclones, or, as they are generally known in the United States, hurricanes. Some of the highest tides of record northward along the coast from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod have been produced by hurricanes.
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Displaced by Hurricane Katrina: Issues and Options for Medicare Beneficiaries [PDF]
, 2005 Identifies potential problems and offers options for assisting Medicare beneficiaries during the period following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Brian Biles, Nora Super
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Creating Community Environments That Promote Comprehensive Health and Wellness [PDF]
, 2006 Describes the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the health of the residents of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Outlines strategies to identify effective programs designed to reduce health disparities and improve health status in the ...
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Disruption to test scores after hurricanes in the United States
Environmental Research: HealthQuantifying how hurricanes disrupt educational attainment is essential to evaluating the burden of climate-related disasters. Here, we examine the association between hurricane-force tropical cyclones and educational attainment among elementary and ...
Gabriella Y Meltzer +9 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 Absorption of colored dissolved organic matter or detrital gelbstoff (aCDOM/ADG) and light attenuation coefficient (Kd490) parameters were studied at La Parguera Natural Reserve in southwestern Puerto Rico, before and following Hurricanes Irma (6–7 ...
Suhey Ortiz-Rosa +3 more
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Variability of North Atlantic hurricanes: seasonal versus individual-event features
, 2012 Tropical cyclones are affected by a large number of climatic factors, which translates into complex patterns of occurrence. The variability of annual metrics of tropical-cyclone activity has been intensively studied, in particular since the sudden ...
Corral, Alvaro, Turiel, Antonio
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Environmental Research Letters, 2016 This letter examines the magnitude, spatial footprint, and paths of hurricanes and extratropical cyclones (ETCs) that caused strong surge along the east coast of the US between 1979 and 2013. Lagrangian cyclone track information, for hurricanes and ETCs,
J F Booth, H E Rieder, Y Kushnir
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