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March
Winter 2015: A Season to Remember (or Forget)
This winter has brought a barrage of storms and Arctic air to more than half of the U.S., notably the New England region, resulting in record…
The Journey to Sendai and Beyond
Sendai is a city of a million people 2 hours north of Tokyo on the Shinkansen bullet train. From March 14-17, 2015 it will attract seven…
Rising Storm Surge Losses in the U.S. Northeast
A recent article in Nature Communications, picked up by the BBC, identified a record mean sea-level rise of 5” (127mm) along the coastline…
Measuring Disaster Risk for Global UN Goals
A dispiriting part of the aftermath of a disaster is hearing about the staggering number of deaths and seemingly insurmountable economic…
February
High Tides a Predictor for Storm Surge Risk
On February 21, 2015, locations along the Bristol Channel experienced their highest tides of the first quarter of the 21st century, which were…
The Challenges Around Modeling European Windstor...
In December I wrote about Lothar and Daria, a cluster of windstorms that emphasized the significance of ‘location’ when assessing windstorm…
