nitrogen loss in soil, as well as the loss of nonpoint source pollution and the leaching rate of nitrogen under the different … loss of ammonium nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen in soil, which generates the transfer and transformation mechanisms of …

topography to hurricane wind effects (wind speed force and windborne debris). Isotropic and anisotropic surfaces of Miami … actual hurricane events that are recorded in the literature, as well as the patterns observed on Central Miami landmarks … after Hurricane Wilma in 2005. These results represent a simplistic GIS approximation of the phenomena in a specific urban …

In this study, evacuees from the path of Hurricane Gustav were surveyed to determine which meteorological hazards most … collect time-sensitive data on individual evacuation decisions related to the meteorological hazards from Hurricane Gustav … were most-concerned with the threats posed by hurricane-force winds. Given the forecast track and intensity, survey …

Hurricane wind damage constitutes the largest percentage of catastrophic insured losses in the US. Yet the complicated … models. To obtain realistic landfall hurricane surface winds, a large eddy simulation (LES) framework in a weather … spectrum of scales from large-scale background flow, hurricane vortex, mesoscale organizations, down to fine-scale turbulent …

of the strongest hurricane winds over the North Atlantic basin is analyzed using a statistical model from extreme value … increase, the expected hurricane wind speed for a given return period also increases. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media …

-level optimization that reframes the decision more broadly. The upper level develops an evacuation plan that describes, as a hurricane …, including for the first time, sheltering-in-place; (3) it uses a hurricane-scenario-based analysis that explicitly represents … the critically important uncertainty in hurricane track, intensity, and speed; and (4) it includes a new DUE algorithm …

from tropical cyclones. This problem can be decomposed into the behavior of the hurricane that is relevant to evacuation … and the behavior of evacuees that is relevant to the hurricane. The uncertain behavior of these two systems can be modeled … in an evacuation management decision support system (EMDSS). The hurricane EMDSS described here displays information …

complied after Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and how they were used to prepare for tropical storms at the time of Hurricane Katrina …