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Madinah Shamsu and Muhammad Akbar
Hurricane storm surges are influenced by wind intensity, forward speed, width and slope of the ocean bottom, central pressure, angle of approach, shape of coastal lines, local features, and storm size. A numerical experiment is conducted using the Advanc...
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T. Edwin Chow, Joyce Chien and Kimberly Meitzen
The primary objective of this study was to examine the quality of volunteered geographic information (VGI) data for flood mapping of Hurricane Harvey. As a crowdsourcing platform, the U-Flood project mapped flooded streets in the Houston metro area. This...
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Zheye Wang, Nina S. N. Lam, Mingxuan Sun, Xiao Huang, Jin Shang, Lei Zou, Yue Wu and Volodymyr V. Mihunov
Hurricane Harvey in 2017 marked an important transition where many disaster victims used social media rather than the overloaded 911 system to seek rescue. This article presents a machine-learning-based detector of rescue requests from Harvey-related Twi...
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Angélica Romero-Arteaga, Amaia Ruiz de Alegría-Arzaburu and Bernardo Esquivel-Trava
Extreme weather events such as hurricanes are expected to become more severe with the human-induced increase in average global temperatures, exacerbating the risk of major damage. Efforts to predict these events typically require detailed hydrodynamic da...
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Katherine Anarde, Jens Figlus, Damien Sous and Marion Tissier
Infragravity (IG) waves are expected to contribute significantly to coastal flooding and sediment transport during hurricane overwash, yet the dynamics of these low-frequency waves during hurricane impact remain poorly documented and understood. This pap...
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Brian Tomaszewski, Amy Walker, Emily Gawlik, Casey Lane, Scott Williams, Deborah Orieta, Claudia McDaniel, Matthew Plummer, Anushka Nair, Nicolas San Jose, Nathan Terrell, Kyle Pecsok, Emma Thomley, Erin Mahoney, Emily Haberlack and David Schwartz
The need for improvement of societal disaster resilience and response efforts was evident after the destruction caused by the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. We present a novel conceptual framework for improving disaster resilience through the combinatio...
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Seong Jin Noh, Jun-Hak Lee, Seungsoo Lee and Dong-Jun Seo
Hurricane Harvey was one of the most extreme weather events to occur in Texas, USA; there was a huge amount of urban flooding in the city of Houston and the adjoining coastal areas. In this study, we reanalyze the spatiotemporal evolution of inundation d...
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Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi, Daniel P. Watson and Richard L. Wood
Aerial data collection is well known as an efficient method to study the impact following extreme events. While datasets predominately include images for post-disaster remote sensing analyses, images alone cannot provide detailed geometric information du...
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Jingchao Yang, Manzhu Yu, Han Qin, Mingyue Lu and Chaowei Yang
Social media data have been used to improve geographic situation awareness in the past decade. Although they have free and openly availability advantages, only a small proportion is related to situation awareness, and reliability or trustworthiness is a ...
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Xiaoxuan Li, Anthony R. Cummings, Ali Rashed Alruzuq, Corene J. Matyas and Amobichukwu Chukwudi Amanambu
Tropical cyclones are incredibly destructive and deadly, inflicting immense losses to coastal properties and infrastructure. Hurricane-induced coastal floods are often the biggest threat to life and the coastal environment. A quick and accurate estimatio...
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