Extreme rainfall associated with Hurricane Maria over Puerto Rico and its connections to climate variability and change

D Keellings, JJ Hernández Ayala - Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hurricane Maria was associated with record‐breaking rainfall over Puerto Rico and caused
unprecedented flooding and landslides. Here we analyze the extreme rainfall produced by …

Urban flood risk mapping: A state-of-the-art review on quantification, current practices, and future challenges

S Karmakar, MA Sherly, M Mohanty - Advances in Urban Design and …, 2022 - Springer
Floods are one of the most frequently occurring natural disasters, causing widespread
devastation, economic damage, and threat to human lives. Hydrologic impacts of climate …

Bayesian extreme value analysis of kinematic-based surrogate measure of safety to detect crash-prone conditions in connected vehicles environment: A driving …

AK Bakhshi, MM Ahmed - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Connected Vehicles (CVs) technology has provided large-scale driving database
embedded in Basic Safety Messages (BSMs). This valuable data source can shed more light …

Preliminary analyses of the hydro-meteorological characteristics of Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico

CE Ramos Scharrón, JJ Hernández Ayala, EY Arima… - Hydrology, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Caribbean has displayed a capacity to fulfill climate change projections associated with
tropical cyclone-related rainfall and flooding. This article describes the hydrometeorological …

An assessment of the spatial distribution of shallow landslides induced by Hurricane María in Puerto Rico

CE Ramos-Scharrón, EY Arima, KS Hughes - Physical Geography, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Rainfall associated with Hurricane María triggered more than 70,000 shallow
landslides over a 6,400 km2 area of Puerto Rico for a mean density of 11.2 slope failures …

Flood protection ecosystem services in the coast of Puerto Rico: Associations between extreme weather, flood hazard mitigation and gastrointestinal illness

RDJ Crespo, J Wu, M Myer, S Yee, R Fulford - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Floods are becoming increasingly influential in coastal cities due to the intensification of
extreme weather events. The impacts of flooding go beyond damages to infrastructure, it …

[HTML][HTML] A catalogue of tropical cyclone induced instantaneous peak flows recorded in Puerto Rico and a comparison with the world's maxima

CE Ramos-Scharrón, CT Garnett, EY Arima - Hydrology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Peak streamflow rates from the Insular Caribbean have received limited attention in
worldwide catalogues in spite of their potential for exceptionality given many of the islands' …

Resolution-dependent perspectives on Caribbean hydro-climate change

MR Jury - Hydrology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Near-surface winds around the mountainous Caribbean islands contribute to orographic
lifting and thermal diurnal rainfall that requires mesoscale analysis. Here, a new perspective …

Current and future rainfall-driven flood risk from hurricanes in Puerto Rico under 1.5 and 2 C climate change

L Archer, J Neal, P Bates, E Vosper… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2024 - nhess.copernicus.org
Abstract Flooding associated with Hurricane Maria in 2017 had devastating consequences
for lives and livelihoods in Puerto Rico. Yet, an understanding of current and future flood risk …

Improved quantum artificial bee colony algorithm-optimized artificial intelligence models for suspended sediment load predicting

P Wei, W Yu - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
River sediment plays a critical role in maintaining the health of river ecosystems, and
accurately predicting suspended sediment load (SSL) is vital for effective river management …