Professional storm photographer Mike Theiss documents Hurricane Katrina's record-setting storm surge from the emergency door of a beachfront hotel stairwell in Gulfport, Miss., on Aug. 29, 2005. See more storm pictures. Jim Reed/Science Factions/Getty Images Tornadoes and hurricanes are the ...
Professional storm photographer Mike Theiss documents Hurricane Katrina's record-setting storm surge from the emergency door of a beachfront hotel stairwell in Gulfport, Miss., on Aug. 29, 2005. See more storm pictures. Jim Reed/Science Factions/Getty Images Tornadoes and hurricanes are the ...
Oftentimes, all you need to do is evacuate far enough so you can escape storm surge. If you have room in the car, bring your disaster supply kit (we'll talk about that in a minute). If you do end up staying in a shelter, you never know what kinds of conditions you might ...
Approaches to make cities more resilient to floods are emerging, notably with the design of flood-resilient structures, but relatively little is known about the role of urban form and its complexity in the concentration of flooding. We leverage statistical mechanics to reduce the complexity of ...
Moreover, results imply that there is a location with maximum sensitivity to altered depth, offshore surge amplitude, and time scale and that the location of observed maximum change in surge amplitude along an estuary of simple form moves upstream when depth is increased. Further, the relative ...
Not sure what's so scary about the 'storm surge' that's coming with Hurricane Florence? This video shows just why it's so dangerous.
Scientists know that the scale has its limitations. "This scale does not take into account other potentially deadly hazards such as storm surge, rainfall flooding and tornadoes," according tothe National Hurricane Center. How are hurricanes named?
Storm Surge: The Deadliest Threat 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 maximu...
rather than a occasional phenomena. Additionally, the annual hurricane season could also produce an increased number of destructive Category 5 storms. For humans, this not only means more destructive and potentially deadly rainfall, flooding, and wind, but also worsening storm surge along coastal comm...
Generators form the heart of a modern power station. In the next section, we'll take a look at how one of these stations works. Faraday: Patron Saint of Electricity Nineteenth-century British physicist and chemist Michael Faraday paved the way for our modern electricity-driven world. The famed...