Inland riverine flooding from tropical cyclones (TCs) is responsible for significant economic losses in the United States. Yet, most hurricane loss assessment efforts are focused on coastal areas. Hurricane Irene, which struck the U.S. east coast in 2011, provides a recent and poignant example: while intense media coverage and preparation and evacuation activities focused on the projected coast...

to establish the location and shape of a Iiquid/vapor interface in a liquid container, thus enabling liquid A demonstration system for the ultrasonic gauging of volume measurement [I,21. fluids in low-gravity has been designed and tested. For purposes of simplification, it was assumed that vapor Typically, in propellant storage applications, the liquid within a liquid container in low-gravity w...

Key water quality management issues and threats within the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries include excess loadings of sediment and nutrients, and the introduction of toxic chemicals and microbial agents. Poor water clarity, principally controlled by suspended sediments and phytoplankton, is a persistent and widespread problem in the York River estuary with the oligohaline and middle me...

Natural flood regimes provide a wide array of important ecological functions. Our goal is to assess the hydrologic impact of dams on flood flows throughout the United States. Regional regression models of the median annual 1-day maximum flow were developed as a function of natural watershed characteristics, dam storage, and population density. Most of the regressions have adjusted R2 values in ...

This paper, part 1 of a 2-part paper, gives a broad overview of data mining and describes several applications where it has been applied. Data mining is an emerging field that addresses the issue of converting large databases into knowledge. Data mining methods come from different technical fields such as signal processing, statistics, and artificial intelligence. Data mining employs methods fo...

In southeastern Coastal Plain streams, wood debris can be very abundant and is recruited from extensive forested floodplains. Despite importance of wood debris, there have been few opportunities to examine recruitment and redistribution of wood in an undisturbed setting, particularly in the southeastern Coastal Plain. Following extensive flooding in 1994, measurements of individual downed trees...

In addition to a richer learning experience integrating text and multimedia such as audio commentary with slides and visualizations of key algorithms and concepts hypertextbooks for computer science courses can provide immediate feedback to the reader. Due to the explosion of data and information in the Internet age, data mining is becoming a core area in the undergraduate computer science curr...