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Anna Lisa Cescon, James Andrew Graham Cooper and Derek W. T. Jackson
Beach ridges originate from various depositional processes and occur in a variety of settings. This paper assesses their nature and distribution on the islands of the Greater Caribbean based on a literature review and the identification of sites using Go...
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Nuno Marques de Almeida and Adolfo Crespo
The frequency and severity of natural or human-induced disaster events, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, pandemics, hazardous material spills, groundwater contamination, structural failures, explosions, etc., as well as their impacts, have...
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Neiler Medina, Arlex Sanchez and Zoran Vojinovic
Disasters triggered by natural hazards are becoming more frequent and more intense, causing damage to infrastructure and causing loss of life. One way to reduce disaster risk is by evacuating the hazardous area. However, despite the amount of literature ...
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Cesar Davila Hernandez, Jungseok Ho, Dongchul Kim and Abdoul Oubeidillah
During every Atlantic hurricane season, storms represent a constant risk to Texan coastal communities and other communities along the Atlantic coast of the United States. A storm surge refers to the abnormal rise of sea water level due to hurricanes and ...
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Evgeny Poplavsky, Alexandra Kuznetsova and Yuliya Troitskaya
This paper presents an analysis of a new method for retrieving the parameters of the atmospheric boundary layer in hurricanes. This method is based on the approximation of the upper parabolic part of the wind speed profile and the retrieval of the lower ...
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Stephen C. Medeiros
Mangroves are a natural feature that enhance the resilience of natural and built coastal environments worldwide. They mitigate the impacts of hurricanes by dissipating energy from storm surges and waves, as well as reducing wind speeds. To incorporate ma...
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Youkou Dong, Enjin Zhao, Lan Cui, Yizhe Li and Yang Wang
Submarine pipelines are widely adopted around the world for transporting oil and gas from offshore fields. They tend to be severely ruined by the extreme waves induced by the natural disaster, such as hurricanes and tsunamis. To maintain the safety and f...
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Kevin J. Wienhold, Dongfeng Li, Wenzhao Li and Zheng N. Fang
The identification of flood hazards during emerging public safety crises such as hurricanes or flash floods is an invaluable tool for first responders and managers yet remains out of reach in any comprehensive sense when using traditional remote-sensing ...
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Gregorio Rosario Michel, María Ester Gonzalez-Campos, Fernando Manzano Aybar and Joep Crompvoets
The Dominican Republic (DR) is a small island developing state (SIDS) highly exposed to disaster-risk phenomena, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) enables coordination and sharing of spatial information and servi...
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Wenwen Li, Sizhe Wang, Xiao Chen, Yuanyuan Tian, Zhining Gu, Anna Lopez-Carr, Andrew Schroeder, Kitty Currier, Mark Schildhauer and Rui Zhu
The past decade has witnessed an increasing frequency and intensity of disasters, from extreme weather, drought, and wildfires to hurricanes, floods, and wars. Providing timely disaster response and humanitarian aid to these events is a critical topic fo...
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