Abstract: his paper provides a review of atmospheric circulation and sea surface temperature (SST) conditions that are associated with meteorological drought on the seasonal time scale in the Greater Horn of Africa (the region ...

Abstract: Observations of daily maximum temperature (Tx) and monthly precipitation and their counterpart fields from three coupled models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (CMIP3) archive have been used for ...

Abstract: Torrential rainfall during December 1999 resulted in devastating floods and landslides along the northern coast of Venezuela. These events occurred in an area with a predominantly dry climate, took place during what is ...

Abstract: When engineers think of risk management, it’s often in the context of events directly related to specific program elements—adequately addressing all design criteria, identifying and securing commitments for the necessary ...

Abstract: In much of East Africa, climatological rainfall follows a bimodal distribution characterized by the long rains (March–May) and short rains (October–December). Most CMIP5 coupled models fail to properly simulate this annual ...

Abstract: When an extended structure is excited at frequencies above the resonance of its lowest modes, spatial variations in the mean square response occur since the mode shapes are functions of the ...

Abstract: Guidelines for civil engineers dealing with media personnel are presented. The need for engineers to understand media personnel and use them to communicate needed information to the public is highlighted. Tips for newspaper, ...