A different modeling approach fills large gaps in the U.S. government's flood risk estimates, revealing previously overlooked at-risk areas often surrounding small flood-prone streams.Read More »
The devastating 2017 Puebla quake provides an opportunity to assess how citizens perceive and use the Mexico City earthquake early warning system.Read More »
A new study simulating the effects of wildfire smoke on human health finds continued increases in wildfire activity in the continental United States due to climate change could worsen air quality over the coming decades.Read More »Natural Hazards
Strengthening societal resilience by focusing on the interactions between natural hazards, the built environment, and human societies.Read More »Natural Hazards
A new book presents various studies that may establish a link between earthquakes and different types of precursor signals from the Earth, atmosphere, and space.Read More »
A new modeling platform, tested on two recent natural disasters, simulates conditions that dump landslide debris into rain-swollen rivers, often causing more damage than the landslides themselves.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Synthetic aperture radar data post-processing can be used to analyze changes in the landscape, providing a useful tool for disaster response.Read More »Natural Hazards
Weather forecasts combine many model predictions to create an ensemble that is more accurate than separate models, a technique now starting to be applied in space weather science.Read More »
