Forecasting Extreme Weather Archive

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    Google’s Role in Public Hurricane Preparedness

    A recent study by researchers at Mississippi State University and the University of Alabama sought to identify the behavior of the general public in advance of landfalling hurricanes by examining Google search data. Using publically accessible data from Google Trends, Google Insights, and Google Hot...

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    The Cost of Natural Disasters

    By Gavin Roy The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released their annual December report on the past year’s natural disasters in the United States. The sum of the damage in 2011 cost American taxpayers $52 billion. Disasters listed ranged from the Groundhog’s Day blizzard...

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    Sponsor IEDRO: Help Us Attend the 178th AAAS Meeting

    Each year the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) organizes one of the most widely recognized global science conferences, with hundreds of networking opportunities and broad international media coverage. IEDRO’s participation would be a significant benefit to attending scientists, researchers, educators and families. ...

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    3rd International Conference on Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response

    30 May – 1st June, 2012 Dubrovnik, Croatia The conference provides a forum for researchers, academics and practitioners actively involved in improving our understanding of flood events including risk management and mitigation, as well as emergency response and many other related issues. The meeting will...

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    Earth-Observing Satellite Launched

    To refresh NASA’s aging satellite fleet a satellite was launched on October 28th that will make observations about the atmosphere, earth and oceans to help understand climate change.  NASA is developing a new fleet of research satellites for NOAA. One of the satellite’s main jobs...

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    Using Modern and Historic Weather Data, IEDRO Shows Small Island Nations Ways to Increase Their Knowledge of Vegetation and Rainfall Applications

    On August 19, 2011, IEDRO’s Manager of Site Operations, Teddy Allen, had a productive meeting with the National Foodcrop Farmers Association (NFFA) in the southern Caribbean island of Trinidad. To date, this group has never been approached by any climate or meteorology specialists to disseminate...

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    IEDRO Shows Those Who Need It the Most How to Use Rescued Data

    In September, Teddy Allen, our Operations Manager, had a conversation with the head climate researcher at the International Research Institute (Columbia University), Simon Mason, and received a personal tutorial on how to operate their Climate Predictability Tool (CPT). The CPT uses spreadsheet data to produce statistical...

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    Mississippi River Flooding Trends

    by Dale Elizabeth Corey In early May 2011, Memphis, TN faced massive flooding from America’s largest river, the Mississippi. Melting from winter snows and April rainfalls contributed to the river cresting at 47.78 feet at Memphis on May 14, 2011 (the second highest level on...

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    Lightning Concerns before the Last Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour

    by Dale Elizabeth Corey “8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 … and liftoff for the final launch of Endeavour, expanding our knowledge and expanding our lives in space.”  On Monday, May 16, 2011, Space Shuttle Endeavour (Shuttle Transportation System: STS-134) was launched...

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