When we consider that the frequency of slow-moving tropical cyclones capable of delivering devastating rainfall is increasing, then we can expect an increase in the frequency of extreme flood events that are capable of excavating deeply buried legacy contaminants from the archive of sediment within ...
However, the most costly extreme events in recorded history were all classified by EM-DAT as tropical cyclones, not flash floods, and the top six events as of 2019 all occurred in the U.S.2. When we compared tropical cyclone losses and our estimates of urban flood hazards from rainfall, ...
Roughly half of all U.S. deaths from tropical cyclones are due to the storm surge, the rise in water levels from the tropical cyclone's winds piling water toward the coast just before and during landfall. Storm surge is not simply a function of the maximum winds. What are the 3 types ...
Tropical cyclones, storm surges, coastal immersion, watercourse erosion, floods, and droughts occur virtually annually and cause substantial loss of life, land and property (Uddin and Suravi, 2019; Bernzen et al., 2016). The country is additionally terribly vulnerable to temperature change (Kreft...
Rockets capable of carrying a payload over 20 metric tonnes are classified under the Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle (HLLV) category. The rocket must carry its package up to at least160km above the surface and achieve an orbit, requiring speeds above 8,000 metres per second. ...
Trade winds are easterly surface winds very dominant in the tropics in the direction of the Earth’s equator. The wind blows from the southeast region in the southern hemisphere and from the northeast in the northern hemisphere. These winds steer the direction of tropical cyclones that develop fr...
The dependency of rockfall activity on rain is particularly obvious when compared to other sites, which is explained by the fact that rain can be very intense in this tropical environment affected by cyclones. La Réunion island holds world records for rainfalls, ranging from 500 mm in 3 h to...
The dependency of rockfall activity on rain is particularly obvious when compared to other sites, which is explained by the fact that rain can be very intense in this tropical environment affected by cyclones. La Réunion island holds world records for rainfalls, ranging from 500 mm in 3 h to...
Recent efforts to monitor the health of coral reefs have highlighted the benefits of using structure from motion-based assessments, and despite increasing use of this technique in ecology and geomorphology, no study has attempted to quantify the precisio