NH34C:
The 2017 Hurricane Season: Remote Sensing, Informatics, Society and Engineering​, and Hydrology Perspectives Lightning Session

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Session ID#: 38999

Session Description:
In 2017, the Americas have dealt with numerous hurricane events of historic proportion. Two storms have made landfall in the US in recent weeks after causing devastation to numerous Caribbean nations. Hurricane Harvey arrived as a Category 4 near Rockport, TX on August 26, 2017 followed by Hurricane Irma on September 10, 2017 arriving at Cudjoe Key, FL. Hurricane Maria crippled islands in the Caribbean before arriving in Puerto Rico on September 19, 2017. This session will be organized as multiple sessions and seeks a wide breadth of contributions focusing on the events of these storms, including crowdsourced data and social media in disaster response; policy implications; high resolution remote sensing; flooding and infrastructure damage; impacts on the environment and human health; changing coastal landscapes; oceanographic, atmospheric, and climatic factors contributing to the storm; data access and assimilation; HPC and cloud computing for real time analysis.
Primary Convener:  Guido Cervone, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geography and Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Jeffrey A Nittrouer, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, Courtney M Thompson, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Alex M de Sherbinin, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, NY, United States
Chairs:  Carolynne Hultquist, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, Palisades, United States and Alex M de Sherbinin, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Guido Cervone, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geography and Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University Park, PA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
Index Terms:

1910 Data assimilation, integration and fusion [INFORMATICS]
1922 Forecasting [INFORMATICS]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4331 Disaster relief [NATURAL HAZARDS]

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