Abstract: Drought hazards, and the ability to mitigate them with advance warning, offer potentially valuable applications of climate forecast products. Yet the value is often untapped, owing to the gap between climate science and ...

Abstract: Architected materials are a new class of materials that interlink practices in architecture and structural engineering to produce materials by conjugation of several simple materials through the interplay between geometry ...

Abstract: Twenty‐four previously unpublished expert systems are being developed for applications in environmental engineering. These new systems are summarized in three principal categories: hazardous waste management, water supply ...

Abstract: The effects of the Great Lakes on two vigorous winter cyclones are studied with the aid of an 8-level primitive equations model. The model includes fluxes of heat and water vapor from water surfaces, orography, surface and ...

Abstract: The effects on 36 h predictions of cyclogenesis of varying the initial upper air data while keeping the initial surface pressures unchanged have been studied. The numerical models employed use the primitive equations, have ...

Abstract: This article presents a technique for performing vulnerability assessments, using measures of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Historically, vulnerability assessments have focused on analyzing the hazard itself, ...

Abstract: Drought plans depend on indicators and triggers to characterize drought conditions and guide drought responses. Yet indicators and triggers often suffer from deficiencies, such as temporal and spatial inconsistency, ...

Abstract: With rising expenses and scrutiny of storm-water programs, managers need information on costs and benefits to make rational funding decisions. Most, however, lack this basic information. This study sought to identify and ...

Abstract: Several improvements have been made recently to the parameterization for surface longwave radiation described by Gupta. Model constants have been modified in order to use meteorological data from the International Satellite ...